Looking at ArtClassical, Medieval, and Renaissance Art

• Light• Perspective• Movement• Color• Proportion• Symbolism

The Peasant Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Looking @ Art

• Light• Perspective• Color• Form• Proportion• Symbolism

Looking @ Art

Giovanni Arnolfini and His BrideJan Van Eyck, 1434

Renaissance ArtComparing Renaissance Art to

Medieval Art

Medieval Art

Characteristics of Medieval Art

• Disproportionate figures• Little or no perspective• All faces the same, unrealistic• Two-dimensional, flat, and dull• Religious themes• 180 degree relief statues• Storytelling, either about religion or

warfare• Artists as craftsmen, work for guilds

Madonna EnthronedGiovanni Cimabue 1280-90

Transition

• "He converted the art of painting from Greek to Latin and brought in the modern era”

• First since the Greeks to understand the concept of space - 3D on a 2D surface

• Influenced western art and all the Renaissance artists

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto_di_Bondone

Giotto

Saint Francis Saint Francis and Saint Claireand Saint Claire

The The Presentation Presentation of the Virgin, of the Virgin, 13051305

Madonna Enthroned Giotto, 1311

Madonna Enthroned Giotto, 1311

Art of the Renaissance

Adoration of the MagiSandro Botticelli

Dead ChristAndrea Mantegna, 1501

Tell me about these paintings. Can you find similarities and/or differences?

Medieval Art (things to notice)• Look at the people, they all look the

same. Close to stick figures.• Their faces are all the same.• The depth perception, there is none.

Some of the people and objects look like the are floating.

• Linear Perspective, Focus point or vanishing point, there is none. It looks like a bunch of randomly placed objects.

• Religion, most medieval art has some sort of religious aspect to it.

• The artists normally sign their work to know who’s work it is. In this painting we do not find this.

Renaissance Art (things to notice)

Raphael

School of Athens

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Mona Lisa

Michelangelo