1. During the Italian Renaissance, art was used to communicate social, political, and spiritual values. Wealthy Italian families and banking interests spent large sums patronizing artists. 2. Renaissance art was characterized by increased realism, use of linear perspective, classical influences like symmetry and balance, and emphasis on individualism and portraiture. 3. Famous Renaissance artists included Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, and Donatello. Their works reflected humanism, scientific observation, and mastery of techniques like chiaroscuro. Northern Renaissance art had more emphasis on realism, landscapes, and middle-class life.

1. The Art of the Italian Renaissance

3. Charateristics of Renaissance Art

6. Perspective

11. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Chiaroscuro Sfumato

12. Renaissance Florence

13. Lorenzo the Magnificent 1478 - 1521 Cosimo de Medici 1517 - 1574 PATRONS OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART

16. Brunelleschi’s “Secret”

17. Brunelleschi’s Dome

18. Comparing Domes

19. Other Famous Domes Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

20. The Renaissance 'Individual'

25. Leonardo, the Artist: From his Notebooks of over 5000 pages (1508-1519)

26. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

27. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4 ?

28. Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

29. Leonardo’s Last Supper

30. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

31. horizontal vertical Perspective! The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

33. A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

34. Leonardo’s Annunciation

36. Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy): Pages from his Notebook

37. Leonardo, the Inventor: Pages from his Notebook

38. Man Can Fly?

39. A study of siege defenses . Studies of water-lifting devices. Leonardo, the Engineer: Pages from his Notebook

40. Michelangelo’s David

42. Michelangelo’s Pieta

43. Michelangelo’s Painting of the Sistine Chapel

46. Michelangelo’s Wall in Sistine chapel

47. Raphael’s School of Athens-it follows on next slide!!!

50. DaVinci as Plato looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm]. Aristotle saying looks to this earth [the here and now] teacher!

53. Averroes Hypatia Pythagoras

55. Zoroaster Ptolemy Euclid

56. Raphael!

57. Donatello’s David

59. Botticelli’s Primavera

60. Primavera – Botticelli, 1482 Depicted classical gods as almost naked and life-size.

61. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus follows on next slide!

62. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

66. Jan van Eyck Arnolfini Marriage NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

67. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434

69. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife , 1514

73. Dürer Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse woodcut, 1498

74. “ The Ambassadors” ~ Hans Holbein the Younger How in the world did he paint this skull to look skewed and slanted?

75. Holbein’s, The Ambassadors , 1533 A Skull

76. Multiple Perspectives

77. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights 1500

78. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights (details) 1500

79. Hieronymus Bosch The Cure of Folly 1478-1480

80. Bruegel’s, Tower of Babel , 1563

81. Bruegel’s, The Beggars , 1568

82. Bruegel’s, Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind , 1568

83. El Greco Christ in Agony on the Cross 1600s

84. El Greco Portrait of a Cardinal 1600