renaissance art. middle ages lacked –depth –perspective –realism – looked flat –color...
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Renaissance Art
Middle Ages
• lacked– depth– perspective– realism – looked flat– color– individualism
• people were viewed in terms of their place in society
– an excitement about life• life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or
hell rather than an experience worth having
It was....
• Sacred• Symbolic• Simplified• Stylized• Background is flat and stage-like
Giotto
• a Renaissance Man• transitional piece• Mary and baby are the focus• not intended to show everyday life,
but life in Heaven• Mary and Christ are large than
others• background covered with gold –
showing this is God’s kingdom• gold halos• baby Jesus is small man• facial features are the same• only god can create
Madonna and Child
Adding Math and Science
• Leonardo da Vinci has circles and squares to find the mathematical proportions of man
• “aim of science and art are one”
• artists study geometry, anatomy, botany, physics
• subjects provide the information needed to better represent artistically what they were drawing
Proportions of Man
Masaccio• rediscovered the technique of
linear perspective • a technique that creates the
appearance of three dimensions
• creating the illusion of “real space”
• established an imaginary line on the viewer’s eye level called the horizon line
• center of this line called the vanishing point– the point at which lines leading
into the distance seem to meet
Trinity with the Virgin and St. John
New things Renaissance Artists
added....• Single light source
– putting together science and nature
• Sfumate “up in smoke”– aerial perspective for showing distance outdoors– figures closest to viewer – clean and bright– figures far away – light, hazy, fade into the distance
• Chiaroscuro– blending
• Proportion– haze– eliminate contrast in background
Da Vinci
• Mona Lisa
– Single light source
– Sfumato
– Chiaroscuro
– Proportion
Michelangelo
• The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican
Coming face to face with God
The famous hands of Adam and God
the Delphic Sibyl
• A perspective device called foreshortening
The School of AthensRaphael
Michelangelo
Archimedes
Euclid
RaphaelRaphael
Leonardo
Birth of VenusBotticelli
Adoration of the Magi
Botticelli
Arnolfini Wedding
Jan Van Eyck
• Oil Painting• Symbolism
Compare/Contrast
Middle Ages Renaissance