1. INDIVIDUALISM: glorifying potential, talents and accomplishments of individual human beings.

2. CLASSICISM: Re-discovery and appreciation of ancient Greek & Roman culture

3. SECULARISM: emphasis on this world (the “here & now”) and its material pleasures rather than the afterlife (“hereafter”) or spiritual world.

In the Renaissance a new philosophy, HUMANISM, emphasized:

Jacopa di CioneMadonna and Child in Glory

1360/65Tempera and gold on panel

1. From Medieval Artistic Expression to Humanism

Halo signifies they are residents of heaven

Hieratic Scale

Franconian SchoolMiraculous Mass of St. Martin of Tours

about 1440Tempera and gold on canvas on panel

Gold background symbolized Holy Heaven

Guiliano BugiardiniMadonna and Child with St. John

1523/1525Oil on panel

How do the halo’s differ from the previous paintings?

Is the landscape Heavenly or earthly?

Giovanni Agostino da LodiAdoration of the Shepherds

About 1505

Hieratic Scale?

Halos?

Adoration of the Magi1550/60

Oil on oak panel

Accurate Perspective

Buildings trueto life?

Annibale CarracciBean Eater

1582/83Italian, 1560-1609

Oil on canvas

Is this mana Saint?

Ordinary people became worthy subjects for works of art.

2. Realism & Expression

� Expulsion fromthe Garden

� Masaccio

� 1427

� First nudes sinceclassical times.

3. Perspective

First use of linear

perspective!

� The Trinity

� Masaccio

� 1427

What you are, I once was; what I am, you will

become.

horizontal

vert

ical

Perspective!

The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

4. Emphasis on the IndividualIsabella d’Este – da Vinci, 1499

� 1474-1539

� “First Lady of the Italian Renaissance.”

� Great patroness of the arts in Mantua.

� Known during her time as “First Lady of the World!”

5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures

� The Dreyfuss Madonna with the Pomegranate

� Leonardo da Vinci

� 1469

� The figure as architecture!

The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498& Geometry

Here’s Michelangelo’s famous sculpture, the Pieta, 1499

The Pieta is another common theme in Catholic art, just like the Madonna and Child

What is being depicted here?

But these are still religious works

Renaissance Europe is still

a very religious society

The Church is still a major power & art

patron

But the art is now done in a realistic style by professionally trained artists, not untrained monks

Madonna of the Carnation –

daVinci, 1478-80

Art changed…from egg tempura to oil,from panels to canvas,from hieratic scale to perspective,From heavenly to earthly landscapesfrom halos and religious figures to

human realism

And Renaissance art is broken into 3 phases → early, high and late

To summarize:

The Arnolfini Marriage

Jan van Eyck – Flemish

1434

The Seven Sorrows of the

Virgin

Albrecht Durer – Germany

1497

Madonna and Child

Raphael – Italy1504

Details from Sistine Chapel 1508-1512

Michelangelo

The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci – Italy

1495-98

da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1503-1506

The Surgeon – Jan Sanders van Hemessen 1555