renaissance Flashcards
Renaissance is a _____ word which means _____
french Renaissance, meaning “rebirth”;
Renaissance comes from the italian word
Rinascimento, from re- “again” and nascere “be born”)
Rinascimento is
italian word, re- “again” and nascere “be born”)
re means- and
“again”
nascere means
“be born”
a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period.
Renaissance
it encompassed a revival of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform.
Renaissance
Renaissance scholars employed this method in the study
humanist method
Renaissance scholars searched for
realism and human emotion in art.
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo inspired the term
“Renaissance men”
who inspired the term “Renaissance men”
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
Renaissance art will reflect values of Renaissance humanism and be based on classical models:
1) stresses proportion, balance, harmony,
2) reintroduces the nude human figure,
3) represents a heroic vision of human beings, humans as the focus of attention.
THREE PERIODS of Renaissance Art:
Early Renaissance
High Renaissance
Mannerism Period
period of R.A simple, pretty, gesture & expression
Early Renaissance
Early Renaissance YEAR
(14th-15th C. )
period of R.A painting was on man & nature in Fresco technique
Early Renaissance
Michaelangelo STYLE
contrapuesto-twists
period of R.A center in Florence, Venice & Rome
High Renaissance
period of R.A painting style – deepening of pictorial space, making the sky more dramatic with dark clouds & flashes of light
High Renaissance
High Renaissance YEAR
(16th cent)
contrapuesto-twists
Michaelangelo STYLE
FAMOUS PAINTERS DURING THIS TIME WERE Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio & Michaelangelo
Mannerism Period
period of R.A subject matter: human figure with the use of oil painting & color
Mannerism Period
period of R.A colors were sumptuous, warm & sensual
Mannerism Period
FAMOUS PAINTERS DURING Mannerism Period
Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio & Michaelangelo
Great & detailed attention was given to anatomical shapes, proportions & perspectives, to indicate a more scientific attitude towards art
Early Renaissance Sculpture
more secular than religious in nature
Middle Renaissance Sculpture
Palaces adorned with sculpture cast in bronze
Middle Renaissance Sculpture
subject matter: on legends & myths of Greece & Rome
Later Part of the Renaissance
Artists were given complete freedom on the choice of a subject in sculpture
Later Part of the Renaissance
Proponents of Renaissance Arts
Donatello
Michelangelo
considered to be one of the greatest sculptors of all time.
Donatello
a great Italian sculptor, who was born in Florence, Italy, in 1386, and died at the age of 80 in 1466.
Donatello
did not marry and had no children.
Donatello
Donatello was essentially a
realist.
first nude statue of the Renaissance
David
considered to be one of the best proportioned sculptures ever
equestrian statue of Gattamelata
style Donatello used where he used expressive ugliness to give the statue a life of its own.
Donatello’s Gothic style
used a powerful realism that gives his statues a distinct look.
Donatello’s Gothic style
David
Donatello
equestrian statue of Gattamelata
Donatello
invented the shallow relief technique.
Donatello
Donatello invented this technique where the sculpture seems deep but is actually done on a very shallow plane.
shallow relief technique
the sculpture seems deep but is actually done on a very shallow plane.
shallow relief technique
characterized his figures as individuals.
Donatello
also made the first bronze sculpture.
Donatello
This is one of the earliest works by Donatello, carved sometime around 1406 to 1409.
Young Prophet
Young Prophet
Donatello
Inspired by the Statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, or perhaps by the Greek horses on top of the Venetian Church of St Mark’s
equestrian statue of Gattamelata
prototype for many subsequent heroic monuments.
equestrian statue of Gattamelata
an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
Michelangelo
a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
Michelangelo
the rival of Michaelangelo for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man
Leonardo da Vinci.
he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century
Michelangelo
Two of his best-known works of Michaelangelo
Pietà
David
was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.
Michelangelo
Michaelangelo is often called
Il Divino (“the divine one”)
Il Divino means
(“the divine one”)
he is often called Il Divino (“the divine one”)
Michelangelo
Pieta
Michelangelo
One of Michelangelo’s most famous works where the face of the Virgin is especially youthful and Christ shows no sign of pain.
Pieta
stands over thirteen feet tall and is also one of Michelangelo’s most famous works.
David
This work is a wooden crucifix
Crucifixion
only known work by Michelangelo in wood.
Crucifixion
The figure of Christ is nude (which scandalized his contemporaries)
Crucifixion
Crucifixion
Michaelangelo
the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word
“barroco”,
the word baroque is derived from the Spanish word
“barrueco”,
the word baroque is derived from the French word
“baroque”,
refer to a “rough or imperfect pearl”,
Portuguese word “barroco”,
Spanish word “barrueco”,
French word “baroque”,
used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur from sculpture, painting, literature, and music.
Baroque style
both a period and the style that dominated it.
Baroque
style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
Baroque style
arts during this period create a feeling of movement, energy and tension.
Baroque
period Strong contrasts of light and shadow and an infinite amount of space are evident.
Baroque
Intense spirituality and realism are usually present in this period
Baroque
intense _____ and _____ are usually present in Baroque period
Intense spirituality and realism
“The artist would often portray the figures as individuals with their own personalities, to capture the inner workings of the mind and to portray the passions of the soul on their faces” .
Baroque
degraded Renaissance style and was more exaggerated.
Baroque
focused on natural forms, spaces, colors, lights, and the relationship between the observer and the literary or portrait subject in order to produce a strong, if muted, emotional experience.
Baroque artists
one of the goals in Baroque art
overall sense of awe
Baroque poses depend on
contrapposto (“counterpoise”)
the tension within the figures that move the planes of shoulders and hips in counter directions.
contrapposto (“counterpoise”)
became the most characteristic form of the musical baroque
OPERA
Proponents of Baroque Arts
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
Peter Paul Rubens
a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
an individualistic artist of the Baroque period, important as a portrait artist
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
Las Meninas
(Spanish for The Maids of Honour)
Las Meninas
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
The Waterseller of Seville Velázquez,
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,
a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality .
Peter Paul Rubens
well-known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, hunt scenes and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.
Peter Paul Rubens
Bacchanalia
Peter Paul Rubens
The Garden of Love
Peter Paul Rubens
The Christ Child, St.John and Angels
Peter Paul Rubens
