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Middle Ages -> artists seen as “artisans” = skilled craftsman
In the Renaissance/by the end of the 15th -> the artists came to be seen as artistic geniuses -> the spark of the divine
Artist as a hero -> “Il Divino” = the divine one = Michelangelo
Rise in social and economic status for the artist
MICHELANGELO
ITALIAN RENAISSANCENORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Focus on the human form
Technical artistic skills led to realism
Frescos = walls paintings on wet plaster
Illuminated manuscripts
Wooden panel paintings for altarpieces
Focus on rendering details
Oil painting Focus on religious
subjects not pagan
THE PROPHETDANIEL – CEILINGOF THE SISTINE CHAPEL -> FRESCO
“THE VIRGIN OF CHACELLOR ROLIN”
THE GHENT ALTARPIECE
Key artist in artistic center of Flanders First to use oil paints -> new colors and
finer detail GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE
PORTRAIT OF OSWOLTKREL BY ALBRECHTDURER – NORTHER RENAISSANCE PAINTER
Northern Renaissance artist from Germany
DURER SELF PORTRAIT
HARE
ADAM AND EVE
Dufay – most important composer of Renaissance music
Music shifted from being only for the church to royal courts and cities = secular music
The madrigal – a poem set to music