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Humanities Survey in Art
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Early Renaissance in Italy
(1400-1490)
Submitted by: G uisando, Joecyl Gianna Marie T.May 10,2013Humn 1-GR350MC 7:30-9:30 a.m. M-F5
Introduction Focus on history of art in Early Italian
Renaissance It was a very remarkable period of time It would lead into a period called High
Renaissance Important in our visual literacy
Medici Family
The biggest accomplishments of the Medici were in the sponsorship of art and architecture, mainly early and High Renaissance art and architecture.
Medici Family
The Medici were responsible for the majority of Florentine art during their reign. Their money was significant because during this period, artists generally only made their works when they received commissions in advance.
2. PaintingsArt based on heaven to being based on the
natural world
Inspired by humanism
Appeared 3D to the human eyes
Paolo Uccello1397 – 1475Italian painterNotable for his pioneering work on visual
perspective in artHe used perspective His style is best described as idiosyncratic
Fra Angelico
c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 Early Italian Renaissance painter "Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the
Angelic' “Works within the framework of the Early
Renaissance style embody a serene religious attitude and reflect a strong Classical influence.
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Masaccio Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 –
autumn 1428) The first great painter of
the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance
He was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time
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Masaccio
San Governable Triptych ,1422
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Fra Filippo Lippi
1406-1469 Pupil of Masaccio Recorded as a painter in 1430 Fra Filippo Lippi's later painting style is
linear, lyrical, and decorative, a product of his own fantastic imagination.
Fra Filippo Lippi was more interested in nature and landscape depiction
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Sandro Botticelli c 1445-1510
Italian PainterUsed oil to make paintings of figuresFigures of his work tended to be of sculptural
roundness and strengthUsed mythological figures in his art work
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Sandro Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, dating from 1475 or 1476. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence.
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Pietro Perugino
1445-1524 Early Renaissance Painter of the Umbrian
school His style is characterized by dazzling colors,
spatial clarity of his compositions and a harmonious union between figure and landscape.
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Domenico Ghirlandaio1480
(1449-94) Ghirlandaio had always used a slightly
anachronistic approach, placing portraits of contemporaries alongside religious figures.
His settings are pastiches of classicizing fictions and real places.
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni(1488). Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; formerly in. theMorgan Library
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Piero della Francesca
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Piero della Francesca ( 1415– 1492) was a painter of the Early Renaissance
Appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its
serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective.
Piero dellaFrancesc
a
,1472The Montefeltro Altarpiece
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Andrea Mantegna born 1431-died 1506Northern Early Italian Renaissancepainter and
engraver best known for painting heroic figures depicted in sharpperspective through the use of dramaticforeshortening.
Andrea Mantegna often placed the subject of his work high up in the picture plane to give the illusion that the viewer is looking up from down below.
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3. ArchitectureMathematics gave an insight into Classical
methods of proportion and structure
Defined by flat surfaces and strong lines
Important part symmetry
Palazzi
Filippo Brunelleschi
(Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]; 1377 – April 15, 1446)
One of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance.
He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of perspective
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Leon Battista Alberti(February 14, 1404 – April 20, 1472)
Italian author, artist, architect, poet,priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.
He is often characterized as an "architect“.
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4.SculptureEarly Renaissance sculptors took inspiration
directly from Classical Roman and Greek sculptor.
They imbued their free-standing figures with a range of emotions and filled them with energy and thought.
Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian: [loˈrɛntso giˈbɛrti])
(1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was anFlorentine
Italian sculptor of the Early Renaissance Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he
established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.
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Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 – December 13, 1466), better known as Donatello,
An early Renaissance Italian sculptor Known for his work in bas-relief
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Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛa del verˈrɔkkjo]
Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in the early renaissance.
His greatest importance was as a sculptor
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Andrea del Verrocchio2.14
Christ and St. Thomas (Orsanmichele, Florence)