TO RENAISSANCE ART

MIDDLE AGES
TO
RENAISSANCE
ART
EATING AT TABLE
ART IN THE MIDDLE AGES HAD NO DEPTH (LOOKED FLAT)
MOST MIDDLE AGES ART WAS
UNREALISTIC
B ATTLE OF HASTINGS 1066
WILLIAM THE CONQUERER
JUSTINIAN
RELIGIOUS TOPICS DOMINATED MIDDLE AGES ART
LUTTRELL PSALTER – REAPING (1325)
MOST DETAILED AND REALISTIC PICTURES OF LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
DEPICTS DAILY LIFE ON THE PSALTER MANOR IN ENGLAND
THE THREE KINGS
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LUTTRELL PSALTER MID 1300’S
MANUSCRIPT ART
Middle Ages Art vs. Renaissance Art
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Middle Ages Art
Unsigned, for the glory
of God
Show Christian
teachings
represents joys of heaven
flat, 2 dimensional
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Renaissance Art
signed, competition for
patrons people
people and nature as
they really were
use of shadow,
perspective for realism
colorful, 3 dimensional
Use of linear perspective.
perspective Figures in foreground
appear larger, while background figures appear smaller.
Religious themes and Bible stories are still important,
but there is greater use of secular subjects.
subjects
More interest in the classical ideals of the human figure.
figure
More interest in depicting nature.
nature
Greek and Roman mythology inspires figures in
Renaissance paintings.
First experiments with oil-based paints,
paints mixing
pigments with linseed oil.
Linear perspective. Figures in foreground appear
larger, while background figures appear smaller.
Religious themes and Bible stories are still important,
but there is greater use of secular themes.
Raphael,
Dream of Scipio
ca. 1504
Size:
approximately
5 by 5 inches
More interest in the classical ideals of the human figure.
Renaissance Sculptures
Center: Donatello
Below: Michelangelo’s
David
Classical Roman Sculpture
Roman Emperor Trajan
More interest in depicting
nature.
Pieter Bruegal the Elder’s
The Fall of Icarus combines
several elements of
Renaissance art: It reflects the
renewal of interest in Greek
mythology, as well as the
interest in representing nature.
First experiments with oil-based paints, mixing pigments with
linseed oil.
Jan van Eyck, Madonna
with the Child reading
Van Eyck is considered
to be one of the great
painters of the
Renaissance.
Van Eyck and other
painters of the
Netherlands made oil the
standard medium of
painting. Until then,
tempera (pigment mixed
with egg) was most
commonly used.
Use of linear perspective.
perspective Figures in foreground
appear larger, while background figures appear smaller.
Religious themes and Bible stories are still important,
but there is greater use of secular subjects.
subjects
More interest in the classical ideals of the human figure.
figure
More interest in depicting nature.
nature
Greek and Roman mythology inspires figures in
Renaissance paintings.
First experiments with oil-based paints,
paints mixing
pigments with linseed oil.
* PERSPECTIVE
* REALISM
LEONARDO DA VINCI
MICHELANGELO
* MORE TOPICS OF INDIVIDUALS,
NOT ALWAYS RELIGIOUS
DÜRER
RAPHAEL
VAN EYCK
Double portrait of Battista Sforza and Federigo di Montefeltro,
Duke and Duchess of Urbino, c. 1472, Uffizi, Florence
LEONARDO DA VINCI
INVENTOR, ENGINEER, WEAPONS DESIGNER, ARTIST
(COULD WRITE BACKWARDS)
BEST REMEMBERED FOR:
*MONA LISA
*THE LAST SUPPER
SKULL SKETCH
LEONARO DA VINCI
DA VINCI’S DRAWINGS
OF HUMAN BONE
STRUCTURE
DA VINCI
SPENT TIME
OBSERVING
PATIENTS IN
INSANE
ASYLUMS TO
LEARN ABOUT
EXPRESSIONS
AND HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
DA VINCI’S
SKETCH OF
AN OLD MAN
LADY WITH AN ERMINE
Depicts a delightful teenage
beauty, most probably Cecilia
Gallerani. Most likely Leonardo
da Vinci painted her in his early
thirties, between 1482 and
1485.
Art historians maintain it’s the
world’s first modern-age portrait
ever painted. DA VINCI’S
GINERVA DE’ BINCI
Leonardo da Vinci
painted this portrait of
Ginevra de' Benci in
1474. The work may
have been an
engagement or wedding
portrait.
MONA LISA
LEONARDO DA VINCI
For Francesco del Gioncondo, Leonardo
undertook the portrait of Mona Lisa, his
wife, and left it incomplete after working
at it for four years.