Early Medieval Lindisfarne gospel 698-721

Gothic•Christianity moving across

Europe=population shifts

•Church very powerful

•first universities

•*Architecture: unity bewteen God and humankind

•Art intended to evoke emotional responses, expressive nature, religious fervor

•example of cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral 1163-1250

Chartres Cathedral

Early Renaissance•renewed exploration of human beings

in space

•departure from flatness

•moving away from static, symbolic figures...more natural and human

•how can space be a rational, measurable environment

•attempt to create earthly environments

Simone Martini, The Annunciation, 1330

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/proto-renaissance.html

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Renaissance•“rebirth”

•14th-16th c. Europe (mainly Italy)

•humanism

•linear perspective/ mathematical organization of space

•multi skilled artists (architects/mathematicians/engineers)

•classical beauty and naturalism

•balance

The Top Dogs...

Fillipo Brunelleschi

Leonardo DaVinci

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sandro Botticelli

Raphael Sanzio

outside of Italy...

Jan Van Eyck

Flanders

Albrecht Dürer

Germany

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/1400-1500-Renaissance-in-Italy-and-the-North.html