The renaissance analzye the influence of humanism on the visual arts in the italian renaissance

THE RENAISSANCE

• ANALZYE THE INFLUENCE OF HUMANISM ON THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

• TO WHAT EXTENT DID WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN THE RENAISSANCE

• DISCUSS HOW RENAISSANCE IDEAS ARE EXPRESSED IN THE ITALIAN ART OF THE PEROID

CONTRAST WITH LATE MIDDLE AGES

• MEDIEVAL

• Religion Dominates
• Man should be well versed in one subject
• Latin
• Handwritten
• Gothic
• Divorce—No
• Marriage – economic

RENAISSANCE

• RENAISSANCE

• Humanism
• Virtu
• New Monarchs
• Vernacular
• Individual
• Greek and Roman Classics
• Bronze
• Secular
• Merchants
• Printing Press
• Marriages -- Romance

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

• Florence (Quattrocentro)

• Massive Patronage (Medici Family)
• Center of Renaissance in 14th and 15th Centuries
• Medici’s – Banking

• Rome (Cinquecento or High Renaissance)

• Renaissance Popes – Secular
• Pope Alexander VI
• St. Peter’s Cathedral

• Painting

• Perspective – 3-D effects
• Chiaroscuro – Dark and light colors to create illusion of depth

• Sculpture

• Free standing to be seen in the round
• Glorified body (nude)
• Greek and Roman influence

• Architecture

• Used Greek temple, columns, Roman arches and domes
• Simplicity and balance

Lorenzo Ghiberti

• Lorenzo Ghiberti

• Bronze doors at Florence Baptistry

• Donatello

• Bronze statue of David
• Free standing and in the nude

• Sandro Botticelli

• Birth of Venus
• Classical Mythology

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Renaissance Man
• Mona Lisa and Last Supper

• Raphael

• School of Athens

• Michelangelo

• Statue of David glorifies human body
• Pieta is most perfect marble statue
• Dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral
• Sistine Chapel

Mannerism

• Mannerism

• Reaction against Renaissance ideals of balance, symmetry, simplicity and realistic use of color
• Used unnatural colors while shapes were elongated or exaggerated

• El Greco (Spain)

• Greatest of the Mannerists
• Toledo uses elongated figures and weird pigments

ITALIAN HUMANISM

• Revival of antiquity (Greece and Rome)

• Virtu – Excelling in all of one’s pursuits

• Civic Humanism – Education should prepare leaders to be active in civic affairs

• Petrarch

• Father of Humanism
• Sonnets to Laura
• One of the Big 3 (Dante and Boccacio)

• Dante

• Divine Comedy
• Vernacular

• Boccacio

• Decameron
• Social Behavior of Youth during Black Plague (Sex)

Lorenzo Valla

• Lorenzo Valla

• Expert on Latin Language
• On the False Donation of Constantine proved land given to Church was based on fraud
• Latin Vulgate errors discovered

• Pico della Mirandola

• Oration on the Dignity of Man
• Humans have potential for greatness
• Free will

• Baldassare Castiglione

• The Book of the Courtier
• True Renaissance Man has physical and intellectual ability living an active life

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

• Christian Humanism

• Emphasis on early Church Writings
• How to improve society and reform the Church
• Led to criticisms of the Church

• Erasmus

• Master of the Greek Language
• In Praise of Folly wanted to reform the Church
• Satirized the immorality and hypocrisy of the Church
• Influenced Martin Luther

• Sir Thomas More

• Utopia
• Accumulation of property was root cause of society’s ills

• William Shakespeare

• Miquel Cervantes

• Don Quixote

Flemish Style of Art

• Flemish Style of Art

• More detail
• Oil Paints
• Preoccupied with death
• Ordinary People
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