Renaissance 1400-1600 “rebirth” - PowerPoint Presentation

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Renaissance

1400-1600

“rebirth”

A time of renewed interest in science, art and religion.Slide2

Masaccio

Painter

His most famous work can be found in the

Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. Slide3

Donatello

Sculptor

Famous for many things including the youthful sculpture of David in Florence

. 1440Slide4

Brunelleschi Architect

The church, on which construction began in 1299, is crowned by the

massive dome designed by Brunelleschi almost two centuries later. This building did not have a roof for over 175 years because it posed a major architectural challenge with the large area the dome had to span. Slide5

Leonardo da

Vinci

scholar/artist

People were recognizing their value as humans and looking beyond religion toward science to understand the workings of their universe. One of the greatest minds of that period was Leonardo da Vinci

. Through his art you can see his meticulousness and passion, through his science, you can see his wisdom and creativity.Slide6

Leonardo

da

Vinci

Vitruvian Man

divine proportion

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Mona Lisa Technique

Sfumato



The idea of

sfumato was to blend one shade into another in order to create perceptions of depth, form and volume. The most famous example of this technique is the Mona Lisa.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

A skilled painter who spent many years completing the frescoes that adorn the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo had trained as a sculptor and created two of the world's greatest statues--the enormous David and the emotional Pieta.Slide9

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Pieta

DavidSlide10

Technique

Fresco 

There are two types of frescoes,

buon

fresco and fresco secco. Buon fresco consisted of mixing pigments with water, and in fresco secco

pigments were mixed with binding agents and painted on dry plaster.

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Frescos of the S

istine

ChapelSlide12

Bellini

Agony in the

Garden 1465Slide13

Hans Holbein the Younger –

The AmbassadorsSlide14

Technique

Foreshortening

The idea of foreshortening is meant to add depth to a painting by creating the illusion of objects retreating into a background. One

artist

known for this technique was

Andrea

Mantegna

.

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Titian

Titian's first major public commission in Venice, the

Assumption of the Virgin

for the high altar of Santa Maria

Gloriosa

dei

Frari

(1516–18), established his place as the leading painter of the citySlide16

Tintoretto

The Wedding Feast at Cana, c.1545Slide17

Technique

Humanism and Perspective

Humanism was a means of reverting back to the classical ideologies. The idea of perspective is to create a three-dimensional appearance on a two-dimensional object (e.g. canvas).

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Botticelli

The Birth of Venus is a 1486 painting by

Sandro

Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore. The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.Slide19

Caravaggio

The Sacrifice of Isaac

1590-1610; Oil on canvasSlide20

Technique

Chiaroscuro



This type of painting uses the contrast of light and dark to create dimension to a painting, which gives the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. An example of this technique would be works by Michelangelo

Merisi da Caravaggio, who developed tenebrism

(a form of chiaroscuro where objects appear to emerge from blackness).

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Lorenzo

Ghiberti

Gates of ParadiseJoseph being sold into slavery(below)Slide22

Raphael

The School of Athens (1510 - 11)

FrescoSlide23

Technique

Perspective

Raphael’s best-known ‘

prospettiva’ is the ‘School of Athens’, a fresco painted on one wall of the Raphaelle Stanze at the Vatican in 1510 (Figs. 4 & 6). It is a pre-eminent example of the perspective construction, evoking a strong sense of both depth and classical spiritSlide24

Use of perspectiveSlide25

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Return of the Hunters

Oil on wood Slide26

Hieronymus Bosch

Garden of Earthly Delights

Exterior panels closedSlide27

Garden of Earthy Delights

Triptych-three panelsSlide28

Jan Van Eyck

Arnolfini

Wedding

the artist has juxtaposed secular and religious themes in a work that seems to have several levels of meaning” (

Stokstad

600)

including:The

chandelier has one lit candle signifying matrimony and the unity of marriage (

Stokstad

600);Slide29

The man uses his left hand to support but does not grasp the women’s hand.  He holds his right hand up as if he is taking an oath (

Kloss

95);The removed shoes suggest sanctity (Crenshaw 29);       The spotless convex mirror on the back wall alludes to purity, and the reflection of two other individuals in the room (including the painter) infers that witnesses are presentSlide30

Technique

Glazing

Glazing is a technique employed by Flemish masters such as J. Van Eyck. A painting began with transparent glazes that differentiated the shadows; the bulk of the painting included dark tones. To create softer transitions between the edges of these dark tones, a painter applied transparent glazes that soften the lines over transitional areas of the painting; in the same way, a tinted lens will change the image perceived by a camera.

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Albrecht DurerSlide32

T

echnique

Grid

The Dürer Grid is a modern adaptation of the historic drawing tool used by Renaissance artists, such as Da

Vinci and

Dürer

. It is attributed to Albrecht

Dürer

, whose masterful drawings of the 16th century still amaze us for their realism.Slide33

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Fire

VertumnusSlide34

Andrea Mantegna

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Tempera on canvas, 68x81 cm,Slide35

Technique

Foreshortening 

The idea of foreshortening is meant to add depth to a painting by creating the illusion of objects retreating into a background. One artist known for this technique was Andrea Mantegna.