renaissance art lecture
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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
Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
Zeus or Poseidonc. 460-450 B.C.
Julius Caesar Caesar Augustus
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
AnnunciationSimon Martini, 1333
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
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
Art of the Renaissance
Madonna and Child Fra Filippo Lippi, 1406-1469
Adoration of the MagiSandro Botticelli
Dead ChristAndrea Mantegna, 1501
Raphael
School of Athens
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
Madonna of the Rocks
Mona Lisa
Michelangelo
Pieta, 1498-99