THE RENAISSANCE 📇🇮🇹 Flashcards
What does ‘Renaissance’ mean?
Renaissance means rebirth
What does the renaissance refer to?
Renaissance refers to the rebirth of European interest in the civilisations of Ancient Greece and Rome , during this period people began to question ideas from the Middle Ages and develop new ideas about art, architecture, science , literature, medicine
(People began to come up with new ideas )
What is humanism ?
Humanism is the shift in mindset from a focus on god to a focus on human knowledge
What did artist recreate more often now?
Real world , nature and people in their work
Renaissance was different to the earlier era because ( religion ) …
This time was different as things were now done out of the context of the church e.g art , medicine etc.
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy ? 🇮🇹
- The ruins of the Roman Empire
- The fall of Constantinople in 1453
- Wealth from trade
- New ideas from trade
- Competition between Italian city states
- Patrons
What is a patron?
A patron is a wealthy person who commissioned an artist to paint their portrait
By 1400 the population of Florence was…?
Over 100,000
What was the name of the wealthiest family in Florence?
The Medici family
Name two people in the Medici family
Cosimo and lorenzo
Name some aspects of medieval paintings
. mostly of biblical scenes
. Painted onto wood / wall with wet plaster on it ( fresco- fresh )
. Not realistic / no real depth
. Body’s not to scale
. Limbs the wrong size
. Faces were the same with lifeless expressions
Name some aspects of Renaissance paintings …
. Subjects much more varied e.g nature , everyday life etc.
. Painted onto canvas or wet paper walls
. The paint was mixed with oil so that it dried slower
. Sfumato / Smokey technique makes the paintings more lifelike
. Create depth and distance
. Artists studied anatomy ( the human body)
Who was Leonardo da Vinci ?
He was an incredibly skilled painter and a visionary inventor. ‘
Renaissance man’. He was born in 1452 in Vinci, near Florence.
At 14, he became an apprentice to Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. Finding it difficult to get work in Florence, Leonardo went to work for the Duke of Milan in 1482 as a military engineer.
While in Milan, he painted The Virgin of the Rocks and The Last Supper.
In 1499 da Vinci returned to Florence, where he painted his most famous work, the Mona Lisa.
He dissected corpses to better understand the human body and filled thousands of pages of notebooks with sketches of his ideas for machines such as submarines and tanks.
He went to live in France in 1516 and died there in 1519.
Medieval sculptures …
Medieval sculptures were not very realistic , limbs were not to scale , long straight clothing - mainly used to decorate churches / monuments and usually attached to the building not stand alone
Renaissance sculptures …
known for its realism and attention to detail.
Sculptors working in stone or bronze tried to create statues that were as realistic as possible. They did this by using real people as models and by making detailed drawings and plans before they started carving. They studied anatomy closely - some even dissecting corpses - to understand how muscles and bones worked so their creations were more accurate. One major difference between medieval and Renaissance sculptures was that Renaissance sculptures tended to be naked. This was so that sculptors could show off their skills in carving the body and was also copying the ancient Greeks, who often sculpted nudes.
