ART TECHNIQUES

Identify Middle Ages or Renaissance and the art techniques used (one or more) in

the art. List anything else you know about the art.

“New” (?) Techniques Medieval art

– Egg tempera and woodcarvings were common

– Flat, no perspective, unrealistic

– Religious - clothed/censored- Sculpture “bas relief”- Gothic Architecture

(flying buttresses, stained glass, sculptures and illuminated manuscript)

Renaissance art– Frescoes, oil paintings– Perspective; appearing lifelike

Single Point perspective Sfumato Chiaroscuro

– Religious and secular themes– Free-standing sculpture– Greco-Roman (you know, columns and stuff) and Dome

architecture

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• Compare; what Ren. characteristics do they have in common?

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Look at both and identify Renaissance characteristics. They have at least one in common

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Look at both and identify Renaissance characteristics. They have at least one in common

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Both are from the same series of paintings; there isn’t a better copy of the one on the right

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