Renaissance

Art History

The Beginning

• Renaissance means “rebirth”

• A time of individual freedom

• Began in Italy

• Took place between 1400 and 1600

Rebirth

• Revival of classical art that was originally developed by ancient Greeks and Romans

• Renewed Spirit, celebrating diversity in people

Artists

• Artists were no longer all seen as 1, doing all the same thing

• Time for personalities to show through

New Styles

• Linear Perspective – all objects in a painting are proportionate.

• Landscapes – pictures of the land, flowers, mountains, trees, etc.

• Aerial Perspective – object become less detailed and distinct the farther away they are in the picture

• Introduced Oil paint

• Narrative Picture – people are located in a landscape and they are acting out a story, taken from mythology or Christian stories

Why Did It Start in Italy?

• The Renaissance began in Italy because …– Roman Architecture was found in almost every

town

– Italian language came from the Latin language of the Romans

Renaissance Sculpture• Famous Renaissance Sculptors:

• Michelangelo • Donatello• Verrocchio

• Inspired by the ancient Greeks and Romans• Created realistic figures that showed

personality and behavior• Focused on the laws of proportion

Renaissance Painting• Golden Age of painting

• New use of perspective

• Study of Human Anatomy and proportion

• Genre Painting – painting scenes or events from everyday life

• Use of oil paints

Painting Con.• Renaissance painting reflects the revolution of

ideas and science astronomy, geography

• Invention of the printing press

• Development of Easel painting

• No longer pictures of religion, instead they painted the world around them, and things from their own imagination

Famous Renaissance Art Pieces• The Arnolfini

Portrait (1434) by Jan van Eyck

• One of the first to use oil paints

• Created pictures with a lot of detail

• Painted powerful religious pictures

Masaccio

• Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai– Uses space well

– Shows shadows

– Gives his figures believable emotional response to the story

– Used one point perspective

Brancacci Chapel in Florence,

Italy

Frescoe

Donatello

Donatello di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

Greatest sculpture of Renaissance time

• Created in Bronze, Stone, Clay, and Wood

• Sculptures represented real, believable, living people, caught in an emotional moment

Donatello’s David

Sandro Botticelli• Painted scenes from

Roman myth

• One of the most famous Renaissance painters

MichelangeloMichelangelo

Buonarroti– Sculptor– Painter– Architect– Poet

The David - marble, took 2 years, 18 feet tall

Frescos on the Sistine Chapel - 4 years, painted 300 figures

RaphaelRaffaelo Sanzio

Worked in the Vatican library, painting, while Michelangelo worked in the Vatican Chapel

Leonardo da Vinci• Painter, Sculptor, Engineer, Scientist, Inventor, Musician

• Oil Painting• Sfumato - painting technique which overlays translucent

layers of colour to create perceptions of depth, volume and form. In particular, it refers to the blending of colours or tones so subtly that there is no perceptible transition