Art ID's Renaissance Art

Giotto

The Lamentation

1305

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Simone Martini

The Annunciation

1333

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Donatello

David, bronze

1440-60

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Verrocchio

David, Bronze

1465-70

Artist

Title

Date

Masaccio

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

1426-27

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Massaccio

The Holy Trinity Fresco

1424-27

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Fra Angelico

The Annunciation

1437-46

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

1484-86

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1503-05

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Raphael

School of Athens

1509-11

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Michelangelo

David

1501-04

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Last Judgment

Michealangelo

1536-41

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Titian

Venus of Urbino

1536-38

Artist

Painting Title

Date

Sofonisba Anguissola

Portrait of Artit’s Sister and Brother

1555

Artist

Painting Title

Date

The Rebirth and/or revival of Classical Antiquity

Renaissance means

Often called the first Renaissance art historian

Giorgio Vasari

Imitate nature

Art should

perfecting of the formal means of representation

Progress in painting consists of the

Classicism and Naturalism

Two trends in Renaissance art are

refers to ancient times, especially before the Middle Ages

Classical antiquity

often said to be dark because of a supposed lack of scientific and cultural advancement.

Dark Ages

2D is a flat depiction of an object only showing lengths and widths

3D uses depth for more realistic portrayals

2D Vs 3D representation and spatial illusion

Wet plaster technique (Called True fresco)

Fresco Buono

Uses dry plaster technique, tends to flake off with time

Fresco Secco

Regarded as the founder of the central tradition of Western painting.

Introduced new ideals of naturalism.

Giotto

Created The Divine Comedy

Durante degli Alighieri

Considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece.

The Divine Comedy

Architectural genius

Bruenelleschi

Masaccio (Always think of him with Chiaroscuro)

Chiaroscuro

School of thought based on Plato’s idealistic and spiritual philosophy

Neo-Platonism

pose and gesture of figures create narrative and reveal phycology

Pyramid form

the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

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