Renaissance ArtItalian Early and High Renaissance Art1Art and PatronageItalians were willing to spend a lot of money on art./Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values./Italian banking & international trade interests had the money.Public art in Florence was organized and supported by guilds.Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!2Characteristics of Renaissance Art3Realism & ExpressionExpulsion fromExpulsion fromthe Gardenthe GardenMasaccioMasaccio14271427First nudes sinceFirst nudes sinceclassical timesclassical times. .42. PerspectiveFirst use of linear perspective!The TrinityThe TrinityMasaccioMasaccio1427142753. ClassicismGreco-Roman influence.Secularism.Humanism.Individualism free standing figures.Symmetry/BalanceThe The “Classical Pose”“Classical Pose”Medici “Venus”Medici “Venus”64. Emphasis on IndividualismBatista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of UrbinoPiero della Francesca, 1465-1466.75. Geometrical Arrangement of FiguresThe Dreyfus Madonna with the PomegranateLeonardo da Vinci1469The figure as architecture!86. Artists as Personalities/CelebritiesLives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, andArchitectsGiorgio Vasari1550910Early RenaissanceThe First Three Hall-of-Famers11Masaccio1401-1428nFounder of early Renaissance PaintingnPainted human figure as a real human being (3D)nUsed perspectivenConsistent source of light (accurate shadows)12The Tribute Money13#2 Donatello 1386-1466nThe sculptors MasaccionDavid (1430-32)First free standing, life-size nude since Classical periodContrappostoSense of Underlying skeletal structure14The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello)realgaunt“Speak, speak or the plague take you!”15#3 Boticellin1482nRebirth of Classical mythologynFully PagannTHE BIRTH OF VENUS16The Italian RenaissancenLeonardonMichelangelonRaphaelnTitian17Da VinciMona Lisa (1503-06)Perspective,Anatomy, Composition18Cultural icon1920The Last SuppernEmotionsnResponse21MichelangeloDavidDavidMichelangeloMichelangeloBuonarottiBuonarotti15041504MarbleMarble222324Raphael School of Athens 151025RaphaelDa VinciMichelangelo26AristotleAristotle: :looks to thislooks to thisearth theearth thehere andhere andnow.now.PlatoPlato: :looks to thelooks to theheavens or heavens or the IDEALthe IDEALrealm.realm.27Pythagoras28PtolemyEuclid29TitiannDazzling contrasting colorsnAmple female formsnAsymmetric compositionsnBacchanal of the Adrians 151830Venus of Urbino Titian, 155831A Portrait of SavonarolaBy Fra Bartolomeo, 1498.Dominican friar who decried money and power.Anti-humanist he saw humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and corrupting.The “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 1497./Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other luxury goods in public./Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the fire!32