Some Key Principles of the

Renaissance

• Imitation of nature

• Desire to surpass classical models in quality

• Rationality and empirical knowledge

• Reconciling these other goals with

Christianity

• Arts innovation through trade, travel,

growing patronage

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Lives of the Artists

(1550 and 1568)

• Rule

• Order

• Proportion

• Design

• Style

Giotto (1303-6) and Raphael (1507)

Giotto (1303-6) and Leonardo (1490)

Andrea Mantegna,

Saint Sebastian (1460)

Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes.

Laocoön and His Sons. Probably the original of 1st century BCE or

a Roman copy of the 1st century CE. Height 8’.

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (1444)

Palazzo Rucellai (1446-51)

Attributed to Leon Battista Alberti

Andrea Palladio, Villa Capra or Villa Rotonda (1557-83)

Near Vicenza, Italy

Palladio. Plan of Villa Rotonda, Vicenza. Begun 1560s.

Vitruvian Man (1487)Leonardo da Vinci

Self-portrait (1514)

Leonardo da Vinci

Virgin of the

Rocks (1490)

Key terms for Leonardo:

• Sfumato

• Chiaroscuro

Leonardo da Vinci,

The Last Supper

(1495-1498)

Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa(1503-06)

Raphael,

Sistine Madonna

(1512-13)

RAPHAEL

Transfiguration (1516-20)

22-17

Raphael, School of Athens (1509-11)Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/SchoolAthens.htm

PHILOSOPHY

JUSTICE

POETRY

THEOLOGY

School of Athens

Arts Sciences

Parnassus

Lyric

Poetry

Epic

Poetry

Disputá

Conservative Liberal

Virtues

Justinian

Gregory IX

Solomon

Adam andEve

Apollo

Astrology

RAPHAEL: Stanza della Segnatura -- Themes

Michelangelo. David. 1501–1504. Height 17’ without pedestal.

MichelangeloSistine Chapel Ceiling

“The Creation of Adam”

MichelangeloSistine Chapel Ceiling (1511-12)

“Temptation and Expulsion”

22-13

Michelangelo

Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel (1534-1541)

Saint Peter’s Basilica

Michelangelo (1546-93)

Pope Julius II

Raphael (1511-12)

St. Peter’s Basilica

Short History Link

Donato Bramante

Tempietto (1502-1510)

Rome

Saint Peter’s Plan

Donato Bramante

Commemorative coin dated 18

April 1506

Saint Peter’s Basilica

Renaissance: Michelangelo (1546-93)

Baroque: Carlo Maderno westwork (1607-15)

Bernini colonnades (1620)

Lucas Cranach the Elder,

Martin Luther (1533)

Key date: 95 theses, 1517

Wittenburg, Germany

Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed). c. 1510–1515. Colmar, Germany

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Wittenberg Altarpiece (1547)

Albrecht Dürer,

Self-Portrait (1500)

23-06

Dürer, The Fall of Man, or

Adam and Eve (1504)

Engraving

Iconoclasm

Saint Peter’s Basilica

Baldacchino by Bernini (1624-33)

Pieter Jansz Saenredam

Church interior (1649)

What about earlier interiors?