artistic & scientific achievements of the renaissance
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Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance
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Artistic Renaissance in Italy • Sought to imitate nature; humans became the focus of
attention • New techniques in painting
– Frescoes- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints
– Massacio considered the first masterpieces of early Renaissance art
• New Renaissance Style Developed– Stressed the technical side of
painting– Investigation of human movement &
anatomy to realistically portray the person
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SCULPTURE & ARCHITECTURE
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Stunning Advances in Sculpture & Architecture
• Donatello spent time in Rome studying & copying the statues of the Greeks & Romans.
• Architecture also took on this new style seeking to create architecture that provides comfort and fits human needs.
• Like painters and sculptors, architects sought to reflect a human centered world.
• By the end of the fifteenth century, Italian painters, sculptors, and architects had created a new artistic world.
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Masters of the Italian Renaissance
• Final stage of Italian Renaissance painting, the High Renaissance, took place between 1490 and 1520
• Three artistic giants– Leonardo da Vinci– Raphael– Michelangelo
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Leonardo da Vinci
• 1452 - 1519• Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and
mathematician• Mastered the art of realistic painting
and even dissected human bodies to better see how nature worked
• Goal to create idealized forms that would capture the perfection of nature & the individual
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Raphael
• 1483-1520• At the age of 25 was known as one of
Italy’s best painters. • Known for his madonna’s or pictures of
the Virgin Mary • The School of Athens is one of his most
famous frescoes, found in the Vatican.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
• 1475-1564• An accomplished painter, sculptor, and
architect. • Was hired by the Pope to paint the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel • It took him four years to complete • Reveals an ideal type of human being
with perfect proportions
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• David• 1501-1504• Location: Gallery
in Florence
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Sistine Chapel. 1508-1512
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Creation of Adam
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Other Renaissance Artists
• Jan Van Eyck- The Arnolfini Marriage
• Albrecht Durer – Self Portrait
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Johannes Gutenberg
• From Germany • Printed the first European book from
movable type in approximately 1455• By 1500 over a thousand printers in
Europe. • Almost 40,000 titles had been
published- over half of these were religious.
• Printing allowed European civilization to compete with China for the first time.
• The Chinese had invented printing much earlier.