16th c italy (ekueblerwolf's conflicted copy 2017 02-01)

The 16th Century Renaissance• Italy– “Age of Giants” (Michelangelo, Leonardo,

Raphael)– Science and Art

• The North– Humanism and the Reformation– Changes in patronage– Changes in subject matter– Use of new technologies (printmaking)

The High Renaissance

Renaissance humanismthe importance and dignity of the human being“Man is the measure of all things”Scientific investigation: anatomy, etc.

Leonardo da Vinci, “Vitruvian Man”

Leonardo, Last Supper, 1495-6: fresco/oil painting

• Pyramidal composition

• Atmospheric Perspective

• Number symbolism (3, 4, 7, 12)

“A good painter has two chief objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul; the former is easy, the latter hard, because he has to represent it by the attitudes and movements of the limbs.“ Leonardo da Vinci

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1488Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-5

Leonardo, Virgin of the Rocks, 1485 (Louvre version): oil on wood panel

• Sfuomato (smoky) = Leonardo’s use of atmospheric perspective and modeling

Fra. Lippi, egg tempera ca. 1450

Leonardo, Virgin of the Rocks, London Version, 1503-6

Michelangelo, David, 1501

• View of Sistine Chapel towards altar (new paint job 1508)

Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

The Delivery of the Keys by Perugino, 1481-2

Bramante, Tempietto, 1502

Palladio, Villa Rotunda, 1566-71

Titian/Giorgone, Pastoral Symphony, 1509

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538