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Chapter 12High Renaissance and Mannerism

C&V, vol. 2, 8th edition

High Renaissance

• Move from Florence to Rome !

• Popes become very important patrons !

• Important artists: – Raphael, Michelangelo, Palladio (for architecture),

Giorgione (jor-JOAN-nee), Titian (TI-shun)

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• Important musicians: – Josquin des Prez, Palestrina, G. Gabrieli

Why be an Arts patron?

• See C&V p. 388-90 & p. 410 !

• Memorialize the family name !

• Promote civic pride !

• Assure the patron’s standing in society !

• Exhibits your power and position

Popes and Patronage

● Vatican as center of wealth, stability ● Pope Sixtus IV ● Pope Julius II ■ Beginnings of High Renaissance (1503) ■ “il papa terribile” ■ Raphael, Michelangelo

● The de’ Medici Family

The Visual Arts

● Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) ■ Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Madonna of the

Rocks ● Orthogonals (p. 391), chiaroscuro (p. 392) ● smart history link on linear perspective !

■ Notebooks !

■ Mathematics, natural world and humanity, love for beauty

12.3 Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498, Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazi, Milan, Italy

12.3 Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-1498, Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazi, Milan, Italy

Source: http://www.paintdrawer.co.uk/folders/Courses/Drawing%20and%20Sketching/L10/images/leonardo_last%20supper.jpg

12.4A Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Rocks, begun 1483. Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

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12.5 Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-1505. Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

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Pyramid construction in art see p. 392

Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Rocks ca. 1485 Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow ca. 1508

The Visual Arts Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

● From Urbino to Perugia ■ Apprentice to Perugino !

● From Perugia to Florence (1505) !

● Madonna of the Meadow (1508) ■ Pyramidal configuration ■ Rationally ordered ■ Modeling of human forms !

● Human quality of the divine figure

12.7 Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow, 1508,

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

The Visual Arts Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

● From Florence to Vatican (1508) !

● School of Athens (1509-1511) ■ Symbolic homage to philosophy ■ Renaissance ideal ■ see 396-397 ■ http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/school-of-athens.html !

● Balance of philosophy and theology

12.8A Raphael, Philosophy (School of Athens), 1509-1511. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Vatican State, Italy

The Visual Arts

● Lorenzo de’ Medici !

● Michelangelo Buonarroti (1476-1564) ■ Pietá ■ smart history link !

● Michelangelo’s David ■ Statement of idealized beauty ■ Palazzo Vecchio: symbol of civic power

12.10 Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504, Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy

■ smart history link

The Visual Arts Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Tomb for Pope Julius II !!

● Moses (1513-1515) ■ Divine fury, divine light ■ Terribilità

12.11 Michelangelo, Moses, 1513-1515, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Italy

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The Visual Arts Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

The Sistine Chapel !

● “Michelangelo, Sculptor” ● Architectural and thematic motifs ● Interpretation ■ Neo-Platonism ■ Old Testament and pagan prophets ■ Complex tree symbolism ■ Human wisdom + God’s revelation

12.12A Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1511, Vatican Palace, Vatican State, Italy

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The Visual Arts Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

● Michelangelesque ■ Masculine anatomy, musculature ■ Physical bulk, linear grace, emotionality ■ Creation of Adam (1508-1511) ■ The Last Judgment (1534-1541) !

● Medici Chapel ■ Architectural and sculptural design ■ Life, death, resurrection

12.13 Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508-1512, Vatican Palace, Vatican State, Italy

12.16 Michelangelo, Night, 1519-1531, detail of the tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy

The Visual Arts Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

The New Saint Peter’s !

● Donato Bramante (1444-1514) ■ Tempietto !

● Michelangelo as architect (1546) ■ Bramante’s plan ■ Ribbed, arched dome ■ Drum to support dome !

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The High Renaissance in Venice

● Andrea Palladio ■ Classical Architecture of Greece reflected

through Roman structures !

■ Four Books of Architecture (1570) !

■ Palazzo Chiericati ● Harmony and balance !

■ La Rotonda

Architecture• Andrea Palladio

• see pp. 407-8 !

•Designs many villas in High Ren. Style !

•Four Books of Architecture (1570) !

•Style spreads through his books; esp. in England and later in America; “Greek Revival” style in American South !

smart history linkVilla Rotonda (formerly Villa Capra), near Vicenza, Italy, ca. 1566–1570

Art in Venice: Titian

Assumption of the Virgin - Typical of his style - swirling color - triangular composition

Venus of Urbino (p. 409) - Celebration of female beauty from a human perspective - Renaissance artists studies of the human body - Painted for a wealthy patron

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Mannerism● Characteristics of Mannerism ■ Distortion and elongation ■ Flattened, two-dimensional space ■ Lack of a defined focal point ■ Discordant pastel hues ■ smart history link on mannerism !

● Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo (1494-1557) ■ Deposition (c. 1528) !

● Il Bronzino ■ Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of

Luxury)

Parmigianino (little one from Parma)•Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1524) •exaggerated, irrational space •elongated features

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High Ren. vs. Mannerism(p. 411)

High Renaissance• Content: universal, ideal • Space: harmonious, rational,

proportional • Figure: easily posed, restful

Mannerism• Content: subjective, strange • Space: irrational, exaggerated • Figure: serpentina, tense • "Mannerist artists preferred

odd, agitated poses (especially the serpentinata, a sharply twisted, serpentine pose), spatial exaggeration ..." (Adams p. 387)

Michelangelo both stylesHigh Ren. and Mannerist- Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

!- Ceiling in High Renaissance Style - Altar Wall in Mannerist Style ! smart history link

High Ren. vs. Mannerism

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12.23 Bronzino, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury), 1546, National Gallery, London, England

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Mannerism

● Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) ■ Daughter of Bolognese painter ■ Portrait painter (Rome, Bologna) ■ Exaggerated angles, use of color

● Sofonisba Anguissola (1532?-1624) ■ Renaissance and Baroque masters ■ Pictorial representations ■ Contrasts of dark and light

12.24 Lavinia Fontana, Noli Me Tangere, 1581, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

12.25 Sofonisba Anguissola, A Game of Chess, 1555, National Museum in Poznan, Poland

Mannerism

● Giovanni da Bologna (1529-1608) ■ Sculptor ■ Abduction of the Sabine Women

● El Greco (1541-1614) ■ Distortion of figures and ambiguous space ■ The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

12.27 El Greco, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, 1586, Santo Tome, Toledo, Spain

Music in the Sixteenth Century

Music at the Papal Court !

● Sistine Choir and Julian Choir ■ Male voices, a capella

● Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521) ■ Sistine Choir, composer and director ■ Motet for four voices ■ Structure, balance, lyrical quality

Music in the Sixteenth Century

Music at the Papal Court !

● Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) ■ Choirmaster of capella Guilia (Julian choir) ■ 1571-1594 Vatican’s music director ■ Conservative masses in response to Catholic

reform movement

Music in the Sixteenth CenturyVenetian Music

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● Adrian Willaert ■ Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli

● Church of St. Mark ■ Split choirs ■ Instrumental music in liturgy ■ Intonazione, toccata

● Intellectual influence of Italian humanism

Music in the Sixteenth Century!

● Roman music (Papal music) had a Renaissance sensibility ■ proportion, Classicism, and balance !

● Venetian music ■ like the Venetian painters were more interested in color and

emotion !

(see C&V, 8th, p. 419)

Literature

● Leonardo da Vinci ■ 13,000 pages of notes

● Michaelangelo Buonarroti ■ Poetry

● Vittoria Colonna ● Baldassare Castiglione ■ The Book of the Courtier

● Veronica Franco ● Benvenuto Cellini

13.28 Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, 1514, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Literature

● Baldassare Castiglione ■ The Book of the Courtier ■ Outlines what the ideal courtier should be like ■ see C&V pp. 421-421 ■ Criticized as being overly refined (C&V p. 421) !

● Benvenuto Cellini ■ his auto biography shows us a far more violent and

decadent way of life ■ see C&V pp. 425-427 ■ Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa - mannerist sculpture - smart history link