The Beginning of Modern Painting: The Renaissance 1420 - 1600.
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Legacy of the Middle Ages…
• Notions of honor, duty, loyalty, and love• European cities / The middle class• The state system - representative
government• English common law -concept of liberty • Equality and the sacred worth of the
individual • Universities• Corporations, Bookkeeping & Banking• Preserved Greco-Roman scholarship• Growth of secularism
Humanism:• A philosophical world view which focused on human
potential and achievement in this world – Secularism.
• Petrarch (1304-1374) and Boccaccio (1313-1375) encouraged the study of Greek and Roman writings to understand their ideas and values.
• 1453 Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. Byzantine scholars fled to Italy with collections of manuscripts – many of which were thought to be lost forever.
• Humanist scholars influenced artists and architects to carry on the classical tradition.
• A Humanist education (studia humanitatis) grammar; rhetoric; poetry, moral philosophy and history – create a citizenry able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity and be ready to participate in the civic life of the community
Characteristics of Renaissance art
• Oil on stretched canvass• Linear Perspective• Contraposto- showing action• Chiaroscuro- Use of light and
shadow-• Sfumato-without lines or borders, in
the manner of smoke• Pyramid configuration• Realism and naturalism• Details, including artist’s name.
The “Three Friends” in Florence
• Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
• Donatello (1386-1466)
• Masaccio (1401-1428)
The High Renaissance: 1500-1550
• Da Vinci (1452-1519) • Michelangelo (1475-1564)
• Raphael (1483-1520)
• Titian, (1490-1576)
• Mona Lisa, 1503-1506
Pyramid composition
Linear perspectiveLight & shadowRelaxed & naturalLayers of glaze-3D
quality
No solid lines-sfumato
Raphael, 1483-1520
• “The most popular” • most completely
expressed all the qualities of the High Renaissance
Baldassare Castiglione (1514-15), Raphael's portrait of the famous Humanist philosopher
Lorenzo di Medici,Raphael’s portrait of
“The Magnificent”
Titian, 1490-1576
Self-portrait
• The Father of Modern Painting- no wood panels, no frescoes; only oil on canvass.
Characteristics of Renaissance art
• Oil on stretched canvass• Linear Perspective• Contraposto- showing action• Chiaroscuro- Use of light and
shadow-• Sfumato-without lines or borders, in
the manner of smoke• Pyramid configuration• Realism and naturalism• Details, including artist’s name.