Middle Ages -> artists seen as “artisans” = skilled craftsman

In the Renaissance/by the end of the 15th -> the artists came to be seen as artistic geniuses -> the spark of the divine

Artist as a hero -> “Il Divino” = the divine one = Michelangelo

Rise in social and economic status for the artist

MICHELANGELO

ITALIAN RENAISSANCENORTHERN RENAISSANCE

Focus on the human form

Technical artistic skills led to realism

Frescos = walls paintings on wet plaster

Illuminated manuscripts

Wooden panel paintings for altarpieces

Focus on rendering details

Oil painting Focus on religious

subjects not pagan

THE PROPHETDANIEL – CEILINGOF THE SISTINE CHAPEL -> FRESCO

“THE VIRGIN OF CHACELLOR ROLIN”

THE GHENT ALTARPIECE

Key artist in artistic center of Flanders First to use oil paints -> new colors and

finer detail GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE

PORTRAIT OF OSWOLTKREL BY ALBRECHTDURER – NORTHER RENAISSANCE PAINTER

Northern Renaissance artist from Germany

DURER SELF PORTRAIT

HARE

ADAM AND EVE

Dufay – most important composer of Renaissance music

Music shifted from being only for the church to royal courts and cities = secular music

The madrigal – a poem set to music