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Slides accompanying Dick Nelson's art history seminar March 26, 2009.
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The High Renaissance
Man, the measure of all things.
A rebirth of humanism. Man stands alone, prepared to take the consequences of his own actions.
Greek Classicism: The model Action in repose.
From medieval inhibited formsto free-standing sculpture ofthe Early Renaissance.
Late Gothic: Art depicts otherworldly concerns. Flat, hieraticand dematerialized images in aheavenly space of gold leaf.
Duccio
FLORENCE, the NEW ATHENS
Brunelleschi’s Duomo
The Parthenon, Athens
Humanism is reborn as Man assertshis will in art forms imbued withChristian meaning.
Ghiberti Baptistry Competition Brunelleschi
And the winner is….
Humanism imbued withChristian meaning.
Bronze doors of the baptistry.
Ghiberti
Baptistry of Florence
Early Renaissance: Exploiting linear perspective.Uccelo
Mantegna
Masaccio
Pre-occupation with 3D spatial effects.
One point perspective brings spatial harmony in a 3D illusion of reality.
The High Renaissance
A culmination of visual knowledgeand aesthetic groundbreaking.
In the brief span of 25 years, fourgreat masters produced worksunparalleled in artistic achievement.
Raphael
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Titian
Leonardo da Vinci
Familiar subject matter realizes its full potential in the hands of Leonardo da Vinci.
Pictorial visualization with littleunderstanding or concern withthe visual realities of this world.
Pre-Renaissance depictionOf the Last Supper.
Ghirlandio The Last Supper
Do you get the point? When more is less.
Da Vinci utilizes linear perspective and groupings to organize space.The viewer is placed in the audience; not as a participant at the table.Judas is placed in opposition to Christ at a 90 degree angle.
Religious themes infused with… Idealized participants.
Linear painting technique.
Closed-form and Plane composition.
All forms are en closed
within a p rescribed
diagram.
All forms a re enclosed
within a prescribed
diagram.
Figures and landscapeare placed parallel tothe picture plane.
Unified Compositions:Perspective serves a greater cause. The viewer is guided through a scene of relatedelements.
Giotto: A Late Gothic fresco painter anticipates the Renaissance.
Figures appear to be of this world, depicted as three dimensional, fully modeled images.
Early evidence of concern with visual phenomena, but limited by the lack of knowledge of linear and aerial perspective.
The Deposition
RaphaelThe Deposition
Raphael
The School Of Athens
Titian The Deposition Anticipating the Baroque
Georgione
Titian
Titian
The Venetian SchoolPagan art for the wealthy merchant.
Venus
Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s drawing and completed fresco for the Sistine Chapel.Just one of 320 life-sized figures painted in four and a half years.
Michelangelo believed the formwas in the stone, waiting for hismallet and chisel for liberation.
Michelangelo portrays himself with the spiritual force behind his prolific efforts.
The Last Judgment
An aging Michelangelo’slast chapter for the westwall of the Sistine Chapel.
Lorenzo de Medici Dusk & Dawn Giuliano de Medici Night Day
Michelangelo’s Tomb Of The Medici Manneristic Sculpture
MANNERISM transforms “the calm, balanced grandeur” of the Renaissance into disquietingdistortion, ambiguity and hiddenmeanings.
Pontormo
El Greco: Spanish Mannerism Paramigianino: Italian Mannerism
Michelangelo’s David Bernini’s David
Anti-Climax
Painterly
Time-In-Flux
Passion
Baroque
Story Climax
Linear
Time Stopped
Reason
Renaissance