Early Italian Renaissance Flashcards
Masaccio, Holy Trinity, c. 1428
More natural in color, Fresco, More realistic proportions, architecture, patrons in the painting
Masaccio, The Tribute Money, c. 1427
Color palette is bright and colorful, atmospheric perspective, facial expressions, tax collector in it twice; Jesus is being confronted by a tax collector, no halos, short skirts.
Fillippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402 (angel on left)
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402 (angel on the right)
Donatello, David, ca. 1440-1460
Verrocchio, David, ca. 1473-1475
Characteristics of Early Italian Renaissance
- Development of naturalism
- Narrative cycles which were intelligible to contemporary viewers
- Linear perspective (& aerial perspective)
- The human body as a three-dimensional mass via a single light source casing shadows and highlights (chiaroscuro)
- Unity in psychological response
•What was the Italian Renaissance? When did it begin? What were the political, intellectual, or cultural circumstances?
Revival art, literature, and culture
Revived interest in studying classical antiquity—Greco-Roman
Neoplatonism
Secular focus
Humanism: focus on the individual and awarded for it; culminated interest in the human condition
•In comparison to art from the international gothic period that was more or less strictly religious; renaissance artists applied more agency to their biblical interpretations
Great interest in studying sculpture of ancient Rome and Greece
- Contrapposto
- Male nude statuary
- Neoplatonism – ideas from antiquity
- Secular –moving away from strictly religious imagery, to incorporating Greek mythology, and adding humanistic and naturalistic elements
Linear perspective: 14th-century Italian artists used several devices to indicate distance
•Quattrocento artists acquired a way to make illusion of distance certain and consistent—THE RATIONALIZATION OF SIGHT
