Renaisance Period Handouts

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci

• Description: The Vitruvian Man is Leonardo da Vinci’s own reflection on human proportion and architecture. made clear [It is conveyed] through words and image.

• Purpose: purpose of the illustration is to bring together ideas about art,

  architecture, human anatomy and symmetry in one distinct and commanding image.

  The illustration aims to integrate ideas related to art, architecture, human anatomy, and symmetry into a single powerful image.

Other works by Da Vinci: Mona Lisa

The Holy Trinity

Venus of Urbino

Perseus and Andromeda

Martyrdom of Saint Eulalia

EARLY RENAISSANCE

(1401-1490)

• Artists believed that art should be developing and moving.

• Emphasis on color, space, and light elements.

• Focused on the human body and people doing mundane activities.

• Realism dominated the art expression.

HIGH RENAISSANCE

(1490-1527)

• Painting is the most dominant form.

• Focused on human anatomy putting emphasis on beauty and aesthetics.

• Humanism prevailed in the art works.

LATE RENAISSANCE

• Mannerism was developed to focus on style or manner and less on substance.

• Roman rule was depicted through paintings of anguished people .

RENAISSANCE PERIOD

• Gothic style was also developed from this period.

• Spread to other European nations as well.

• Symbolism was widely used.

Arnolfini Portrait - Jan Van Eyck

(1) HUMANISM

• Turned away from medieval scholasticism and renewed interest in Greek and Roman thought.
  

ST. JOSEPH THE BAPTIST — Da Vinci

INDIVIDUALISM

• Showed individual people instead of groups.

THE AMBASSADORS

— Hans Holbein

SECULARISM

• Few church paintings
  
  
  

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE — Titian

(4) CLASSICISM

Characterized by classic Roman and Greek influences.

Landscape with Charon Crossing Styx

NATURE

Depicted outdoor scenarios.

ASTRONOMICUM CAESAREUM

ANATOMY

• Focused on defined and precise human anatomy.

LAMENTATION OF CHRIST—Andrea Mantegna

LINEAR PERSPECTIVE

• The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer.

PORTRAIT OF DOGE LEONARD LOREDAN—Giovanni Bellini

DEPTH

• Used light and shading to create the illusion of space and depth.

Considered as the ultimate “Renaissance Man” for works focusing on intellect, humanist and classic values.

• Works focused on the human body

• Most notable for sculptures but is also known for his paintings

• The youngest of the Three Great High Renaissance Masters

• Skillfully demonstrated the classical ideals of beauty, serenity, and harmony

—Da Vinci

—Michelangelo

— Sanzio