Italian Art and Architecture 

of the  Renaissance

Dr. Frank Boyer

map of Europe

pilgrimage routes remind us that there are more interest in trade through Italy than to fight

Holy Roman EmpireByzantine and northern Europe hitting one another using the classical remnants for uses of churches like coliseum

Manufacturing centers and trading centers

one pope was a scientist and mathematicianPapal state separate from ItalyJulius 2 attempts to make Rome as center of the Italian State

Term Gothic art is created by Vasari who blasts Gothic art. all classic painting were destroyed done in fresco and encaustic(wax and pigment on wood) different entities manufacturing different capitals Venice state of trade, Bologna- state of Law, Florence- Bankingmoved away from faring and agrarian to these arenas of trade, law, banking. Credit established and double entry booking

•Mary and Jesusexpressiondistortionmade out of wood with gold

Portraiture

map of interior of the church

Notre Dame with flying Buttress

 

Interior of Notre Dame

 

another interior

 

church exterior

 

close up on people on columns

 

Annunciation

 

Proto-Renaissance

 

Byzantine God

mosaicclassic use was for floor covering byzantine was for

Book cover of Jesus

 

Adult Jesus with dinner plate halo people  

Jesus not resting with cookie cutter people 

sculptural example

 

working class sculpture

 

Jesus entering Jerusalem stone

 

Pisano early roman empire

Nativity

Giovanni Pisano, the younger Pisano

 

Innovation of Art and Architecture in Italian Rennaisance 

Betrayal of Jesus by Giotto

 

detail

the emotions

the convention of looking at people straight ahead versus side views

Raising of Lazarus

look at how are the figures are dressed? what colors? what is happening in the painting.

use of color is deliberateseeing the back of someone would never be seen in Gothic artLooking through window of something happening now

Nativity

 

Lamentation

Mary with infant versus dead son

Annunciation

 

Masaccio  The Holy Trinity

 

Florence Cathedral

Galleria degli Uffizi   Vasari

hall of columns

Milan Cathedral

frontal side roof