Renaissance Art

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RENAISSANCE ART

THE EARLY RENAISSANCE

STATUS OF THE ARTS

• VISUAL ARTS CLASSED WITH

CRAFTS OR MECHANICAL ARTS

• “HANDIWORK” VS.

THEORETICAL BASIS

• VILLANI FIRST TO CLAIM A

PLACE FOR THEM IN LIBERAL

ARTS C. 1400

STATUS OF ARTS

• ALBERTI, ON PAINTING

• ADMISSION OF VISUAL ARTS TO

LIBERAL ARTS CHANGED

NATURE OF ARTIST’S WORK

• ARTIST A MAN OF IDEAS

RATHER THAN MANIPULATOR

OF MATERIAL

STATUS OF ARTISTS

• WORK OF ART A RECORD OF A

CREATIVE MIND

• ARTIST’S OUTLOOK ALSO

CHANGED

• IN COMPANY OF SCHOLARS

AND POETS HE OFTEN BECAME

A MAN OF LEARNING

ARTISTS & THIER ARTS

• EARLY REN. CONCERNED WITH

MASTERING TECHNIQUES TO

IMITATE NATURE & CLASSICAL

MODELS

• PERSPECTIVE, USE OF LIGHT

AND SHADOW, SCULPTURE

• MATERIALS FROM OIL PAINT TO

BRONZE

SCULPTURE

• SOUGHT TO TREAT THE HUMAN

BODY LIKE CLASSICAL

SCULPTURE

• CONTRAPPOSTO

• DONATELLO, 1386-1466, AMONG

FOUNDERS OF NEW STYLE

ARCHITECTURE

• BRUNELLESCHI - DUOMO AND

FOUNDLING HOME

ARCHITECTURE

• ALBERTI - RUCELLAI PALACE

PAINTING

• MASSACIO - LAWS OF

PERSPECTIVE (1401-1428)

• FRA ANGELICO(1387-1455)

• PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

• UCCELLO

• BOTTICELLI (1445-1510)

HIGH RENAISSANCE

• LATE 15th-FIRST HALF 16th

• TECHNICAL PROBLEMS SOLVED

• ARTISTS COULD ASPIRE TO

TRANSCEND NATURE NOT JUST

COPY IT

• CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH

END OF DEMOCRARCY, IT WAS

THE ART OF PRINCES AND

POPES

• ROME WAS NOW THE FOCUS

THE ARTIST IN HIGH REN.

• SOVEREIGN GENIUS RATHER

THAN CRAFTSMAN

• SET APART FROM OTHER

MORTALS : “CREATIVE” &

THEREFORE DIVINE

• GRAND AMBITIONS NOT

LIMITED BY NATURE OR

CLASSICAL MODELS

• Subjective standards of truth and beauty

• Visual effectiveness

• Works immediate “classics”

HIGH REN. ARTISTS

• MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI

(1475-1564)

• LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-

1519)

• RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

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