4. Late Gothic: Art depicts other
worldly concerns. Flat, hieratic
and dematerialized images in a
heavenly space of gold leaf.
Duccio
5. The Parthenon, Athens
FLORENCE, the NEW ATHENS
Humanism is reborn as Man asserts
his will in art forms imbued with
Christian meaning.
Brunelleschi’s Duomo
6. Ghiberti Baptistry Competition Brunelleschi
And the winner is….
7. Bronze doors of the baptistry.
Humanism imbued with
Christian meaning.
Ghiberti
13. The High Renaissance
A culmination of visual knowledge
and aesthetic groundbreaking.
In the brief span of 25 years, four
great masters produced works
unparalleled in artistic achievement.
Raphael
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Titian
Leonardo da Vinci
15. Pre-Renaissance depiction
Of the Last Supper.
Pictorial visualization with little
understanding or concern with
the visual realities of this world.
17. Da Vinci utilizes linear perspective and groupings to organize space.
The viewer is placed in the audience; not as a participant at the table.
Judas is placed in opposition to Christ at a 90 degree angle.
18. Religious themes infused with…
Idealized participants.
Linear painting technique.
Closed-form and Plane composition.
All forms a re en closed
Figures and landscape
within a p rescribed
are placed parallel to
diagram.
the pictu plane.
re
20. Giotto: A Late Gothic
fresco painter anticipates
the Renaissance.
Figures appear to be
of this world, depicted
as three dimensional,
fully modeled images.
Early evidence of concern
with visual phenomena,
but limited by the lack of
knowledge of linear and
aerial perspective.
The Deposition