The artistic renaissace

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renaissance aritsts

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considered the imitation of nature their primary goal, to persuade onlookers of the reality of the object or even they were portraying, human beings became the focus of attention

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masaccio

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cycle of frescoes in Brancacci chapel has long been regarded as the first masterpiece of early renaissance art, use of monumental figures, more realistic relationship between figures and landscape and visual representation of the laws of perspective a new realistic style of painting was born, his massive three dimensional human figures provided a model for later generations of Florentine artists

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Early Renaissance Art

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renaissance tyle modified, experimental trend (mathematics and anatomy), human nude = preoccupation, invension (botticiellli), architecutre (brunneschili) and scultpure (donatello), portature(delcartion of human individuality)

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new renaissance style with painters

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new renaissance style was absorbed and modified by other Florentine painters in the 15th century, development of an experimental trend that took two directions

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Donato di Donatello

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spent time in Rome, statue of David

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statue of david

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donato di Dontello, celebrated Florentine heroism in the triumph of Florence over the Milanese in 1428, radiated a simplicity and strength that reflected the dignity of humanity

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Filippo brunelleschi

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Rome, Duonomo, Church of San Lorenzo

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Duomo

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unfinished befre Burnellleschi sarted, new techniques and machinery

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church of San Lorenzo

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Brunelleschi, created a church interior very different from that of the great medieval cathedrals, created an environment that did not overwhelm the worshiper materially and psychologically, comforted as a space created to fit human, not divine, measurements

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Renaissance portaiture

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declarations of human individuality evident in portraiture, render facial features revealies inner qualities

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High Renaissance

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end of fifteenth century, individuliastic forms of creative expresssion, rome is the cultural center

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Leonardo da Vinci

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experimental (dissecting), stressed idelization of nature (create an ideal form), last supper

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Last Supper

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organiation of space and use of perspective to make it look 3-D

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rapheal

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madonnas (famous for), attempted to achieve ideal beauty, school of Athens

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Michelangelo

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driven by passion and desire, influenced by neoplastism

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creation of adam

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Michelangelo, Adam reveals an ideal type of human being with perfect proportions, the beauty of these figures is meant to be a reflection of divine beauty: the more beautiful the body, the more God-like the figure

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David

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Michelangelo, maintained that the form of a statue already resided in the uncarved piece of stone, proudly proclaims the beauty of the human body and the glory of human beings

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Donato Bramante

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came from Urbino, tempietto and columns doem

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Tempietto

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Bramante, summarized the architectural ideals of the high Renaissance,

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Columns dome

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recaptured the grandeur of ancient Rome

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Middle Ages

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arists seen as artisians

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High Renaissance

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artists seen as aritstiic genises with creative energies akin to devine, able to profit and rise on social scale

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early Renaissance

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arists were apprenitices then masters, seen as articisn, patrons determine both the content and the purpose of the paintings and pieces of sculpture they commissioned

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Italian artists

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treid to master technical skills that allowed them to portray humans in a reaslitsc setting

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northern (low countries) artists

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detail detail detail,
tried to imitate nature by observation and detail instead of perspective
emphasis on emotional intensity of religious feelings
started to go to italy and become influenced (durer)

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Jan van Eyck

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first to use oil paint, comprehension of perspective was still uncertain, northern artist, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

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Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

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Eycks, attention to detail, precise portraits,

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Sandro Botticelli

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interest in Greek and Roman mythology was well reflected in Primavera, was one of Lorenzo the Magnificent prominent member, figures are well defined and poses an other worldly quality that is far removed from realism that characterized the painting of the early renaissance

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Primavera

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Botticelli, set in the garden of Venus

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Guillamue Dufay

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most important composer of his ear, greatest contribution was a change in the composition of the Mass, first to use secular tunes, combined medieval and early Renaissance style

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music during the Renaissance

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music ceased to be used chiefly in the service of God and moved into the secular world of courts and cities

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madrigal

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chief form of secular music, a poem set to music, usually 12 line poems written in vernacular, mid-16th century madrigal’s were written for five or six voices with text painting and it had spread to England

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school of athens

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Raphael, reveals a world of balance, harmony, and order the underlying principles of the art of the Classical world of Greece and Rome

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Sistine Chapel in Rome

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Michelangelo, influence of Neoplatosim was evident in his figures of ceiling of Sistine Chapel, pope Julius II commissioned him to decorate the chapel ceiling

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middle ages

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artists were largely viewed as artisans

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Albrecht Durer

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greatly affected by Italians, northern artist, after two trips to Italy, absorbed most of what the Italians could teach, wrote detailedtreatises on both sbuejcts

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Adoration of the Magi

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did not reject the use of minute details characteristic of northern artists, tried to integrate those details more harmoniously into his works and achieve a standard of ideal beauty by a careful examination of human form

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text painting

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music tried to portray the literal meaning of the text