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Renaissance Man • Broad knowledge about many things in different fields • Deep knowledge of skill in one area • Able to link areas and create new knowledge

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Page 1: Renaissance Man Broad knowledge about many things in different fields Deep knowledge of skill in one area Able to link areas and create new knowledge

Renaissance Man

• Broad knowledge about many things in different fields

• Deep knowledge of skill in one area

• Able to link areas and create new knowledge

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Early Renaissance

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What was the Renaissance?

• Period following the middle ages (1450-1550)

• “Rebirth” of classical Greece and Rome

• Began in Italy• Moved to northern

Europe

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Objectives

• During the middle ages– Find God– Prove pre-conceived

ideas

• During the Renaissance– Find man– Promote learning

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Humanism• Pursuit of individualism

– Recognition that humans are creative– Appreciation of art as a product of man

• Basic culture needed for all• Life could be enjoyable• Love of the classical past

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Causes of the Renaissance

• Lessening of feudalism– Church disrespected– Nobility in chaos– Growth of Middle Class through trade

• Fall of Constantinople– Greek scholars fled to Italy

• Education• Nostalgia among the Italians to

recapture the glory of the Roman empire

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DonatelloDavidSaint George Mary Magdalene

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Filippo Brunelleschi

• Il Duomo Cathedral’s dome (Florence)

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Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London)

Dome Comparison

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High Renaissance

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Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519

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Early Life• Madonna of the Rocks

– Geometrical arrangement of figures

– Chiaroscuro– Sfumato– Foreshortening– Background

treatments– Artists live on

commissions

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Milan• Last Supper

– Used new fresco method– Built into the room's end

• Light from the side with the window

• Door cut below

• During WWII a bomb hit the monastery

• Destroyed by erosion

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“Among all the studies and reasoning, Light chiefly delights the beholder; and among the great features of mathematics the certainty of its demonstrations is what preeminently tends to elevate the mind of the investigator. Perspective, therefore must be preferred to all the discourses and systems of human learning.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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Mona Lisa• The greatness of

the Mona Lisa– What do you see?

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"'Those [artists] who are enamored of practice without science,' Leonardo explained, 'are like sailors who board a ship without rudder and compass, never having any certainty as to whither they go.'"

– Isacoff, Stuart, Temperament, Vintage Books, 2001, p. 85.

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Notebooks• Coded

– Read R L with a mirror

• Scientific illustration– Used science to support

art

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Military

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Aeronautics

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Anatomy

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Technology

• Machines• Hydraulics• Vehicles on land• Architecture• Scientific method

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“Those sciences are vain and filled with errors which are not borne of

experiment, the mother of all certainty.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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Legacy

• Only 17 paintings• Notebooks• Drawings of unfinished works• Diverted rivers to prevent

flooding• Principles of turbine• Cartography• Submarine• Flying machine• Parachute• …And much more….

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Renaissance Man

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Renaissance Man

•Ancient:–Plato (daVinci)

–Aristotle

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Renaissance Man

• Renaissance period– Leonardo daVinci– Michelangelo and Raphael– Petrarch, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola

Why were there so many Renaissance men during the Renaissance?

– Lack of boundaries between disciplines– Knowledge was just knowledge

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"I don't buy the notion that the world is organized the way universities and companies are. Ideas don't know what discipline they're in. We might kidnap them and say, 'That's a marketing idea' or 'That's an anthropology idea.' But if you walked up to an idea on the street, it wouldn't know about that."

– Gerald Zaltman, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard, personal communication, October 2003.

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Leonardo’s Environment and Motivation

•Earning a living (profit)•Rivalry with other artists•Scientific curiosity•Civic duty

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Early Life

• Born outside of Florence• Apprenticed as a sculptor

– Master recognized his talents

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Commissions by Medici

• Lived in the Medici palace

• Studied anatomy• Several pieces for

the Medici tombs, etc.

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Rome• Commissione

d to do Pietá

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Return to Florence

• Commissioned to do David

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David

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Return to Rome

• Worked on tomb for Julius II

• Sistine Chapel

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Sistine Chapel

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Sistine Chapel

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Moses• Received funding

from Pope Leo X– The Moses

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St. Peter’s

• Architect for St. Peter’s

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Legacy• World’s greatest

sculptor– See the figure inside the

stone and remove excess

• Painter– Mannerism

• Poet• Architect• Engineer

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Raphael

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Early Life

• Born in Urbino• Quick learner and hard worker

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Time in Rome

• Borrowed techniques from other great artists

• Often sketched women and children• Architect for St. Peter’s• Died at 37 and buried in Pantheon

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School of Athens

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School of Athens

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Madonna of the Meadow

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Legacy of Raphael

• Refinement • Exemplar of the Renaissance• Expertise:

– Artist, archeologist, writer, philosopher, teacher

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Titian and the Venetian School

• Characteristics:– Vivid colors– Dynamics and dramatic

movement– Sensuality