Renaissance and Baroque

Movement Away from Medievalism
Giotto di Bondone, Life of Christ (fresco) 1304-05

Trinity with Virgin, St. John 1425
Fresco: 21’ 10 ½” x 10’ 5”
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
First painting based on the use of linear perspective.

Fra Angelico, Annunciation (ca. 1430)

Fra Angelico
Naming of John the Baptist
(before 1435)

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus (after 1482) Tempera on canvas. 5’ 8 ¾” x 9’ 1 ¾”

(1452 – 1519)
Self-portriat (chalk), 1510-13

Leonardo da Vinci
Five Grotesque Heads
(pen and ink) ca. 1490

Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa, c.1503 -1506
(oil on wood) 30 ¼” x 21”
Sfumato: without lines or borders in the manner of smoke

Madonna of the Meadow (ca. 1506)

Titian, Concert (ca. 1515)

Flora (1515-16)
Giorgionesque

Jan van Eyke
Arnolifini Prtrait 1434

Rogier Van der Weyden
Portrait of a Lady 1460

Albrect D ürer
Hare (watercolor) 1502

Albrect D ürer
Squirrels 1512

Albrect D ürer, Sea Crab (watercolor)

Albrect D ürer
Piece of Turf 1503

Jan Vermeer
Milkmaid 1660
In the Netherlands the middle class collected art.

Jan Vermeer
Girl with Red Hat 1667
In the Netherlands the middle class collected art.

Rembrandt
Self Portrait 1660

On your thickest paper
Create a box of 9 squares 9” x 9”
Each square is 3” add a 4” border
With any drawing medium create texture in black and white or color.
3 textures are copied from life.
3 textures are rubbed.
3 textures are invented.
Arrange textures in any pleasing order.

Student Work

Student Work