Renaissance

Renaissance

1. Renaissance ren-uh-sahns

2. OVERVIEW 01 Origins of renaissance art Early renaissance art (1401-1490s) Florence in the renaissance 02 03 04 05 HIgh renaissance art (1490s-1527) 06 Renaissance art in practice 07 Expansion and decline

3. Middle Ages - teachings of the Catholic Church Beginning of 1400s - artists gradually began to change their style A period of great awakening After centuries of creating religious works, artist began to paint pictures to look realistic as possible. “Rebirth” Renaissance

4. PROTO-RENAISSANCE Renaissance art can be traced back to Italy in late 13th and early 14th century. “proto-Renaissance” period (1280-1400) Reawakening to the ideals and achievements of classical Roman culture. ‹#›

5. ‹#› Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) looked back to ancient Greece and Rome and sought to revive the languages, values and traditions of those cultures from long period of stagnation. Francesco Petrarch Giovanni Boccaccio

6. 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe, all renaissance arts are under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man ‹#› Interest in nature, humanistic learning, and individualism were already present in late medieval period but more dominant in 15th and 16th century Italy.

7. ‹#› GIOTTO DI BONDONE Famous artist in proto-Renaissance Advances in technique of representing human body realistically. His frescoes said to have decorated cathedrals at Assisi , Rome, Padua, Florence and Naples. (1267-1337) Ognissanti Madonna

8. ‹#› LORENZO GHILBERTI (c. 1378-1455) Sculptor Won a major competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the Cathedral of Florence. Beated out Filippo Brunelleschi and young Donatello EARLY RENAISSANCE

9. FLORENCE IN RENAISSANCE

10. Florence in Renaissance Catholic Church remained a major patron of the arts in the renaissance period. Works of art increasingly commissioned by governments, courts and wealthy individuals Medici Family from Florence ‹#›

11. High Renaissance Art (1490-1527)

12. High Renaissance Art Rome had displaced Florence as the principal center of Renaissance art, reaching high point under Pope Leo X Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael Sanzio da Urbino - three great masters that dominated the period (High Renaissance). Ended in 1527 During the sack of Rome Leonardo da Vinci - “Renaissance man” ‹#›

13. ‹#› Mona Lisa (1503-05) Virgin of the Rocka (1485)

14. ‹#› The Last Supper (1495-98)

15. Drew on the human body for inspiration and created works on a vast scale. A dominant sculptor in High Renaissance. Works include the Pieta in St. Peter’s Cathedral (1499) and David in his native Florence (1501-04) His giant frescoes covering the ceiling of Sistine Chapel and depicting various scenes from Genesis (1508-12) ‹#› Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) “David” (1501-04)

16. ‹#› Giant Frescoes covering the ceiling of Sistine chapel

17. ‹#› “Pietta” in St. Peter’s Basilica (1499)

18. Renaissance Art in Practice ‹#› Many works of Renaissance art depicted religious images, including subjects such as the Virgin Mary, or Madonna, and were encountered by contemporary audiences of the period in the context of religious rituals. The art is also noted for four things.

19. ‹#› A reverent revival of Classical Greek/Roman art forms and Styles and a faith in the nobility of Man (Humanism) The Renaissance art was heavily influenced by classical Art since it is meshed with humanist philosophy and because of this artists from this time turned to Greek and Roman Arts as an inspiration.

20. ‹#› Techniques of Perspective : Illusionism This type of art uses foreshortening, and other spatial effects to create the illusion of three-dimensional space on an otherwise two-dimensional or mostly flat ceiling surface above the viewer.

21. ‹#› Di sotto in sù (or sotto in su) It means “seen from below” or “from below, upward”. developed in late quattrocento Italian Renaissance painting, notably in Andrea Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and in frescoes by Melozzo da Forlì The technique often uses foreshortened figures and an architectural vanishing point to create the perception of true space on a painted, most often frescoed, ceiling above the viewer.

22. ‹#› Quadratura refer to the "opening up" of walls through architectural illusion The perspective of this illusion is centered towards one focal point. The steep foreshortening of the figures, the painted walls and pillars, creates an illusion of deep recession, heavenly sphere or even an open sky. Paintings on ceilings could, for example, simulate statues in niches or openings revealing the sky.

23. Expansion and Decline

24. Expansion and decline

25. Expansion and decline ‹#› Giorgione (1477/78-1510) Titian (1488/90-1576) developed a method of painting in oil directly on canvas ; this technique of oil painting allowed the artist to rework an image­

26. Expansion and decline ‹#› Jan van Eyck (died 1441) one of the most important artists of the Northern Renaissance a masterful altarpiece in the cathedral at Ghent (c. 1432)

27. ‹#› Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) Expansion and decline Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543).

28. L ater 1500s, the Mannerist style , with its emphasis on artificiality, had developed in opposition to the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance. Mannerism spread from Florence and Rome to become the dominant style in Europe. MANNERISM ART ‘maniera’ Italian Style or stylishness Mannerism acts as a bridge between the idealized style of Renaissance art and the dramatic theatricality of the Baroque. Refers to a style of painting, sculpture, and architecture , that emerged in Rome and Florence between 1510 and 1520, during the later years of the High Renaissance. 01 02 03

29. ‹#› References: Cabasaan, W. (2014). Humanities: Philosophy and History Art. Jimczyville Publications Leaño, R. and Agtani, J. (2018). ART APPRECIATION for College Students. MINDSHAPERS CO., INC,