ART

EDUCATION
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Renaissance
and Baroque
Art
Learning Competencies: The
learner . . .
 identifies distinct characteristics of arts
during the Renaissance and Baroque
periods
 analyses art elements and principles in
the production of work
following a specific art style
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Renaissance Art
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I have been impressed
with the urgency of
doing. Knowing is not
enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not
enough; we must do.L
LLEONARDO DA VINCI

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Renaissance Art
(rebirth)
✔started in Italy at 15th century
started in Italy at 15 century
✔Also called as “RINASCIMENTO”
✔FLORENCE - focus of Italian
Renaissance art
✔BRUGES – one of the centers of Flemish
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Florence and
are the twin
Bruges
pillars of
European trade
and finance.

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Florence
 center of classical
learning and
philosophic study
the principal seat
of the Renaissance
 the principal seat
of the Renaissance
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Medici Family
✔ The Medicis rose to become one of the most important
families in Florence. They attained wealth and political
power in Florence in the 13th century through its success
in commerce and banking. Cosimo de’ Medici (or Cosimo
the Elder), the family’s support of the arts and
humanities made Florence into the cradle of the
Renaissance, a cultural flowering rivaled only by that of
ancient Greece.
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The Medici Family
Renaissance Art
✔Painters took interest in representation
of visible world rather than religion
✔International Gothic Painting –
Simone Martini and Gentile da Fabriano
✔Realism – Masaccio and Jan van Eyck
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Antonio Pollaiuolo
one of the first artists to dissect
human bodies in order to follow
exactly the play of bone , muscle
and tendon in the living
organism
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 CHARACTERISTICS:
✔Italian Renaissance re-established
Western art according to the principles of
classical Greek art, especially Greek
sculpture and painting, which provided
much of the basis for the Grand Tour
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HUMANISM
✔greatest importance to the dignity and
worth of the individual.

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 EFFECTS OF HUMANISM IN
VISUAL ART
1.The emergence of the individual figure, in
place of stereotyped, or symbolic figures.
2.Greater realism and consequent attention
to detail, as reflected in the development
of linear perspective and the increasing
realism of human faces and bodies
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 EFFECTS OF HUMANISM IN
VISUAL ART
3. An emphasis on and promotion of
virtuous action: an approach echoed by the
leading art theorist of the Renaissance Leon
Battista Alberti (1404-72) when he
declared, "happiness cannot be gained
without good works and just and righteous
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4 THINGS ABOUT ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
1. reverent revival of Classical Greek/Roman art
forms and styles
2. A faith in the nobility of Man (Humanism)
3. mastery of illusionistic painting techniques,
maximizing 'depth' in a picture, including:
linear perspective, foreshortening and, later,
quadratura
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4 THINGS ABOUT ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
4. naturalistic realism of its faces and figures,
enhanced by oil painting techniques like sfumato.

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RENAISSANCE PAINTING
TECHNIQUES:
Linear Perspective -
illusion of depth on a flat
surface

Flagellation of Christ by
Piero della Francesca. 22
RENAISSANCE PAINTING
TECHNIQUES:
Foreshortening -
 illusion of an
object

Lamentation over the Dead

Christ by Mantegna 23
RENAISSANCE PAINTING
TECHNIQUES:
Quadratura
a wall or ceiling painted
 with 
columns and arches

Camera degli Sposi

frescoes by Mantegna. 24
RENAISSANCE PAINTING
TECHNIQUES:
Sfumato - vanished or
evaporated.
 allowing tones and
colors to shade gradually
into one another,
producing softened
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.outlines or hazy forms. 25
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RENAISSANCE
ARTIST