Quiz

1. What does “Renaissance” literally translate to?

2. During what centuries did the Renaissance take place?

3. With what cultures did people of the renaissance compare their cultures?

4. What were Italy's three advantages?

Renaissance Art

Art and Patronage

Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art.

Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values.

Italian banking & international trade interests had the money.

Public art in Florence was organized and supported by guilds.

Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!

Characteristics of Renaissance Art

Realism & Expression

Michelangelo’s knowledge of anatomy is used to show the details of the human form. Naked people = humanism.

Perspective

The first use of linear perspective!

The Trinity

Masaccio

1427

Classicism

Grecco-Roman Influence

Secularism

Individualism-Free Standing Figures

Symmetry/Balance

The “Classical The “Classical Pose”Pose”Medici “Venus”Medici “Venus”

Geometrical Arrangement of Figures

The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate

Leonardo da Vinci

1469

The figure as architecture!

“Pieta”

What makes this a renaissance painting?

What renaissance values are embodied in this painting?

“The Last Supper”

What details or elements of this painting make it a renaissance painting?

“The Creation of Adam”

What makes this a renaissance painting?

The sculpture on the left is an ancient Greek statue of Neptune.

The one on the right is from the Middle Ages.

Now compare the same ancient Greek statue to Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses from the Renaissance. What do you notice?