Early Renaissance Painting

Early Renaissance PaintingA few words before we beginFresco: mural painting on wet plasterTrompe loeil: trickery of the eye, illusion.

Painters coveredMasaccio short career >decadeFra Angelico Dominican monk meets painterAndrea del Castagno: from Venice to FlorenceAndrea Mantegna: influenced by DonatelloPerugino: from Umbria to FlorenceBotticelli: commissioned by Medici family3MasaccioPainters guild in 1422Rome in 1427Understood Brunelleschis theory of ______?

Trinity by Masaccio

Painted fresco in Church of Santa Maria Novella

Donors red garb suggests member of Florentine council.

Trompe loeil with barrel vault in linear perspective

Demonstrates Masaccios knowledge of Brunelleschis perspective

What different columns do you recognize?

Interior of Brancacci Chapel, fresco

Differs from Flemish Painters, how?

Created a new realism with focus on mass of bodies.

Cast Shadows

Expulsion from Paradise

Fresco from Brancacci Chapel

Instead of focusing on anatomy, focused energy to depicting the sheer mourning and emotion.

Tribute Money - Masaccio

ArtAcademyContinuous Narrative

Jesus and Peter in middle, Peter on left with coin and fish (shown here), and Peter paying on right.

Tribute Money is known for its integration of figures, landscape, and architecture Linear perspective + intuitive perspective

Look again at Tribute Money, and can you tell what parts show linear perspective and what parts show intuitive?

Tribute Money

Fra Angelico

Annunciation, 1438-45Fresco in Monastery of San MarcoBuilding style used by Brunelleschi during that exact time of painting.Inspire meditation for monksLocated at top of stairs in Monastery, where monks pause before heading to their individual cells.Linear perspective opens the room

Slender figures assume modest poses

Natural light

Fra Angelico finished last few painting years painting the Popes private chapel in Vatican.

Andrea del CastagnoLast Supper Fresco, 1445-50, refectory of Convent of Sant ApolloniaThe convent for Benedictine nunsRefectory is dining hall

Andrea Mantegna

Mantegna, Frescoes in the Camera Picta

Ducal Palace, Mantua

Entered painters guild at 15, highly influenced by Donatello

Painted mostly entire like for Ludovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua

Excelled in perspective, integrating the figures into the setting, and naturalistic detail.

Putti, or winged baby angels, play around the balustrade. This is a dome in the chapel.

Tromp loeil

For-shortened perspective

Dead ChristPeruginoResolution of Great Schism 1417Rome was chosen for Papal residencyPerugino came to Rome to paint in Sistine ChapelPainted Delivery of the Keys to St. PeterTeacher of RaphaelDelivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

Fresco right wall of Sistine Chapel, VaticanGrid-like composition: vertical and horizontalPrimary color usagePerspectival recessionAtmospheric perspectiveBotticelliStudied in studio of Verrochio (Equestrian Statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni)Painted for Sistine ChapelAlso painted for Medici family (bankers)Used tempera, not oil

Botticelli, La Primavera (Spring), 1478FloraThree GracesCupidMercuryZephyrAuraMedici Wedding23Botticelli, La Primavera (Spring), 1478

SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1482. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5' 8" x 9' 1". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles, Late Classical24Take 2 minutes to review over your notes

You have 15 minutes to write, in your opinion, who was the most talented fresco painter or tempera painter we have covered so far. Convince me with facts from your notes and your opinion.

Work is individual, write in complete sentences, and I will be collecting these at the end of the period.