Gothic to Italian
Renaissance
End of Chapter 15 & Chapter 16
Rebekah Scoggins
Art Appreciation
February 12, 2013
Middle Ages in Europe
Early Medieval Art
Chi-Rho Monogram (XP). Page from the Book of Kells. Late 8th Century.
Inks and pigment on vellum.
1) Angels
2) Man’s
Head
3) Cats &
Mice
Chi-Rho Monogram (XP). Page from
the Book of Kells. Late 8th Century.
Middle Ages in Europe
Gothic
Notre Dame de Chartres. Chartres, France. View from the southeast. 1145–1513.
Gothic.
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Pointed/Gothic Arch
Notre Dame de Chartres. Chartres, France.
1145–1513.
Notre Dame de Chartres. Chartres, France. West Front.
Notre Dame de Chartres. "Rose de France" Window. Chartres, France. c. 1233.
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Precursor to the
Renaissance
Giotto di Bondone. Lamentation. Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy. c. 1305. Fresco.
Giotto. Lamentation (Detail). Scrovegni (Arena)
Chapel, Padua, Italy. c. 1305. Fresco
San Vitale, Emperor Justinian I (Detail),
Ravenna, Italy, Byzantine, 526-547,
Mosaic.
Italian Renaissance
aka The Age of the Ninja Turtles
Eras – Focus
• Greeks – idealized physical forms
• Roman – emphasized physical naturalism
• Middle Ages/Medieval – Spiritual
concerns, not physical
• Renaissance – Earthly depictions of
Christian subjects in human terms
Humanism
• New philosophical, literary, and artistic movement
• Did not discard theological concerns, yet also:
– supported the secular dimensions of life
– pursued intellectual and scientific inquiry
– rediscovered the classical culture of Greece and
Rome.
• Focus gradually shifted from God and the hereafter to
humankind and the here and now.
• Endless potential for the individual.
• In art specifically, new and more modern scientific
approaches were brought to the quest for representational
accuracy.
– Resulting naturalism defined the Western tradition of
art for over 400 yrs.
Masaccio. The Holy Trinity. View from the main area of the church. Santa
Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. 1425. Fresco.
Masaccio. The Holy Trinity. Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. 1425. Fresco.
Masaccio. The Holy Trinity. Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. 1425. Fresco
Three Goddesses (detail), Parthenon, Athens, Greece.
Giotto, The Lamentation (detail), Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
Masaccio. The Holy Trinity (detail).
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.
Ninja Turtle #1: Donatello
Donatello. David. c. 1425–1430. Bronze.
Sandro Botticelli. Birth of Venus. c. 1480. Tempura on canvas.
Sandro Botticelli. Birth
of Venus (Detail).
c. 1480.
Venus de Medici
(Detail).
3rd Century B.C.E.
Marble.
The High Renaissance
(1490-1530)
Ninja Turtle #2: Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci. Vitruvian Man (Study of a man according to Vitruvius). From
Leonardo’s journals. c.1485-1490. pen and ink on paper.
Chiaroscuro
Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa. c. 1503–1506. Oil on Wood.
Pre-World War II picture of the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria
delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. Home of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy.
c. 1495–1498. Fresco.
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last
Supper. Perspective lines as
both organizing structure and
symbol of content.
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last
Supper. Christ's figures as
stabe triangle, contrasting
with active turmoil of the
disciples.
San Vitale. Christ on the Orb of the world.
Ravenna, Italy. Apse Mosaic. Byzantine.
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper
(Detail). Santa Maria delle Grazie,
Milan, Italy. c. 1495–1498.
Ninja Turtle #3: Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti. David. 1501–1504. Marble.
Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Sistine Chapel. Ceiling of The Sistine
Chapel. Vatican, Rome. 1508–1512. Frescoes.
Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Creation of Adam. Ceiling of The Sistine
Chapel. Vatican, Rome. 1508–1512. Fresco.
Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Creation of Adam.
Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel. Vatican, Rome.
1508–1512. Fresco.
Michelangelo Buonarroti. Ignudo.
Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel.
Vatican, Rome. 1508–1512.
Fresco.
Ninja Turtle #4: Raphael
Raphael. The School of Athens. 1508. Stanza della segnatura
(Room of the Signatura). Vatican Palace. Vatican City, Italy. Fresco.
Raphael. The School of Athens. 1508. Stanza della segnatura
(Room of the Signatura). Vatican Palace. Vatican City, Italy. Fresco.
Raphael. Madonna of the Meadow. c. 1505. Oil on board.
Byzantine School. Madonna and Child
on a Curved Throne. Byzantine, 13th
Raphael. Madonna of the Meadow. c. 1505. Oil on board.
Century. Tempura on Panel