Ch. 16 Flashcards
Pronto-Renaissance
14th century or trecento (1300s) Italy
- Giotto
Early Renaissance
Early 15th century or quattrocento (1400s) Italy
- Brunelleschi
- Ghiberti
- Donatello
- Masaccio
High Renaissance
Late 15th century early 16th century or cinquecento (1500s) Italy
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Raphael
- Titan
- Michelangelo
Humanism
- emerged in 14th century but flourished in 15th century
- emphasis on education and expanding knowledge
- exploration of individual potential
- “Renaissance man”
Da Vinci - good at a lot of different things - commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty
Intersection of art with Humanist ideas
- popularity of subjects selected from classical history or mythology
- attention to human - nudity & contrapposto
- revival of portraiture
- discovery & codification of linear perspective & aerial perspective
- paintings that have balanced, symmetrical compositions
- citizens - elite & middle class - extensively participated in civic & religious art commissions
Guilds
Artistians, metal workers, linen workers
- keep sense of skill in place, quality, represent by group
Contrapposto
Resting body on one leg
- gives more human feel to piece & more natural looking
Donatello
Saint Mark
- Florence, Italy
- marble
- guild of linen workers
- resting weight on one leg cotrapposto
Face
- detailed
- typical stoic look, masculine, very little emotion
Humanistic
- clothes have folds
- naturalistic - sense of clothing
Donatello
David
- Late 1440-1460
- bronze
- nude male figure
- contrapposto
- no nudity before this time (only Adam & Eve)
- 1st nude sculpture since ancient time - rebirth
Humanism
- nudity - no longer seen as path for corruption
David
- biblical hero - beating Goliath with sling shot
- does not take away religious aspect - adds to it
- stand on head of Goliath
- no muscles/looks young/sense of innocence
- holding sword of Goliath in one hand
Important to Florentine people
- David defeats enemy Goliath as underdog with help from God
- Florentine people defeat their enemy (Duke of Milan) early 15th c.
- Florentine feel identified with David
Medici
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
- identifies features inspired from classical traditions
- arches, architecture
Linear perspective
15th century Florence
- the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon
Vanishing point
Point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge
Orthogonals
Involve right angles
Horizon line
Actual height of the viewer’s eyes when looking at an object, interior scene, or an exterior scene.
Masaccio
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momento mori
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