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The Renaissance. 1300-1600. Renaissance. Definition: Rebirth of art and cultural ideas of ancient Greece and Rome starting at the end of the middle ages Where: Started in Italy spread all over Europe. Why did ancient culture need a “rebirth”?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Renaissance
1300-1600
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Renaissance
• Definition: Rebirth of art and cultural ideas of ancient Greece and Rome starting at the end of the middle ages
• Where: Started in Italy spread all over Europe
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Why did ancient culture need a “rebirth”?
• After Roman Empire ended in the 400s—people lived in small villages.
• There was no communication between villages and no sharing of culture
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How did Ancient culture survive to be rediscovered?
• During the middle ages Catholic Clergy copied ancient documents to keep them alive
• Nobody was reading these things, but they still existed
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How did the ancient cultural artifacts get rediscovered?
• Merchants who traveled to far away places brought back goods and ideas
• Soldiers coming back from the crusades in the middle east brought back goods from what used to be the Eastern part of the Roman Empire
• Europeans also began to read classics from the Islamic Empires
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY ARE WAS “INFLUENCED” BY CLASSICAL ART?
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Characteristics of Classical Art:
• Purpose of art to show importance of regular people as well as gods and goddesses
• People in art were lifelike, but perfect• Bodies were portrayed as in motion• Faces were calm• Pictures of people doing regular things• Paintings had little or no perspective
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Marble StatueGreek 5th Century copy of Roman Bronze
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MosaicDiana, the huntress-goddess
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Medieval Art
• The Purpose of art was to teach religion to people who could not read and write
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Question
• How do you think medieval art will be different from Classical art?
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Characteristics of Medieval Art
• Most art showed Jesus, Saints and people from the bible
• Important people and things were shown larger than everything else
• Figures were still: no movement• Fully dressed, serious faces• Two dimensional• Bright colors, solid color background
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Byzantine Baby Jesus and Mary
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Power of the priest
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Renaissance Art
• The purpose of art was to show the importance of people and nature in addition to religion
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Characteristics of Renaissance art• Religious and non religious scenes• Nature• Lifelike 3D figures---knowledge of anatomy• Action• Both nude and clothed• Real people doing real things• Faces express feeling• Colors respond to light• Symmetrical• Background with perspective
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School of Athens
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The Last Supper