Early Renaissance

Question 1

Answer 1

Middle Ages:

• didn’t care about realism.
• Art was used not to represent humanity persuasively but to inspire religious devotion and thoughts of heaven
• Images existed in flat space
• Figures disproportionate to their bodies
• Beautiful colors (gold, blues and reds), but not lifelike

Question 2

Early Renaissance (1300-1500)

Answer 2

Early Renaissance (1300-1500)

• moved from spiritual and stylized to a deep concern with earthy man and the actual look of his world
• perspective
• anatomy
• chiaroscuro
• delicacy in the handling of oil paint

Early Renaissance artists wanted to make their images real, to make them seem to breathe, talk; they placed them in credible space, surrounded them with breathable air

Question 3

Answer 3

1st Renaissance painter: Giotto

• The Annunciation to Anne, 1306
• first great innovator in European painting
• people have weight, substance, reality
• faces register a variety of emotions

Question 4

Answer 4

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

• The Effects of Good and Bad Government, 1337-9
• First true landscape since roman times

Lorenzetti’s style (identifieable buildings and figures with the solidity reminiscent of Giotto) spread northward to influence Flemish painter Broederlam

Question 5

Answer 5

Pollaiuolo

• first artist to dissect dead bodies and learn about ligaments and tendons as they connected to the bone
• famous for muscular depiction and facial expressions in his works

Question 6

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Andrea Mantega (from Padua)

• considered by scholars one of the most important painter of the Early Renaissance after Masaccio
• The Crusifixion, 1457-9

Artful perspective, correct anatomy, dramatic sense of composition