moe 228 review
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Some Key Principles of the
Renaissance
• Imitation of nature
• Desire to surpass classical models in quality
• Rationality and empirical knowledge
• Reconciling these other goals with
Christianity
• Arts innovation through trade, travel,
growing patronage
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
Lives of the Artists
(1550 and 1568)
• Rule
• Order
• Proportion
• Design
• Style
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes.
Laocoön and His Sons. Probably the original of 1st century BCE or
a Roman copy of the 1st century CE. Height 8’.
Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (1444)
Palazzo Rucellai (1446-51)
Attributed to Leon Battista Alberti
22-17
Raphael, School of Athens (1509-11)Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/SchoolAthens.htm
PHILOSOPHY
JUSTICE
POETRY
THEOLOGY
School of Athens
Arts Sciences
Parnassus
Lyric
Poetry
Epic
Poetry
Disputá
Conservative Liberal
Virtues
Justinian
Gregory IX
Solomon
Adam andEve
Apollo
Astrology
RAPHAEL: Stanza della Segnatura -- Themes
Saint Peter’s Basilica
Renaissance: Michelangelo (1546-93)
Baroque: Carlo Maderno westwork (1607-15)
Bernini colonnades (1620)
Lucas Cranach the Elder,
Martin Luther (1533)
Key date: 95 theses, 1517
Wittenburg, Germany
Matthias Grünewald. Isenheim Altarpiece (Closed). c. 1510–1515. Colmar, Germany
Saint Peter’s Basilica
Baldacchino by Bernini (1624-33)
Pieter Jansz Saenredam
Church interior (1649)
What about earlier interiors?