RENAISSANCE ART

Main characteristics

• Born in Italy and developed in the 15th (Quattrocento) and 16th (Cinquecento) centuries. It expanded into western Europe.

• Revival of classical forms

• Apperance of maecenas who were the artists patrons

• Anthropocentrism: beauty canons and references are the human proportion

• Scientific study on artworks

• Proportionallity and rationality are the base of art

ARCHITECTURE

• Use of classical orders columns (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Tuscan)

• Use of central floor plan or Latin- cross plan

• Use of round arch, dome and flat structures (architrave)

• Decorations based on frontons, medallions and niches

• Use of the triumphal arch shape

QUATTROCENTOFilippo Brunelleschi

Santa Maria del Fiore Dome

Filippo Brunelleschi

San Lorenzo Church Palazzo Pitti

Leon Batista Alberti

Palazzo Rucellai Santa Maria Novella Church

CINQUECENTODonato Bramante

San Pietro in MontorioVaticano

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Vatican Dome

Andrea Palladio

Villa Rotonda

SCULPTURE

• The artists looked for the perfect beauty.

• Usually, the theme of the works was portraits or naked bodies.

• The most used materials were marble and bronze.

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Baptism Doors in Cathedral of Florence

Donatello

David

Gattamelata

Andrea Verrocchio

David

CondottieroColleoni

Michelangelo Buonarroti

David Moses

Vatican Pietá Rondanini Pietá

PAINTING

• More rigorous landscape

• Study of the effect of out-dorrs-light

• Aerial perspective

• Themes: classical mythology or Judeo- Christian tradition

• Full range of poses, as well as in diverse emotional reactions

• Portraits of naked bodies are frequent

QUATTROCENTO

Fra Angelico

Saint Marcos ConventThe Announcement

Sandro Botticelli

Venus Birth The Spring

CINQUECENTO

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Virgin of the Rocks

Mona Lisa

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sistine Chapel frescoes

Raphael Sanzio

The School of Athens

The Marriage of the Virgin

Titian (Tiziano)

Danae

Equestrian portrait of Charles V

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

Albrecht Dürer

Selfportrait

Melancholy

Hans Holbein the Younger

Portrait of Henry VIII

The Ambassadors

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Portrait of Martin Luther The Golden Age

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Census at BethlehemThe Peasant Wedding

Quentin Metsys

Triptyque Sainte Ann The Moneylender and his Wife

SPANISH RENAISSANCE

ARCHITECTURE: Plateresque

University of Salamanca façade University of Alcala de Henares façade

ARCHITECTURE: Classical

Charles V Palace

ARCHITECTURE: Herreriano

San Lorenzo del Escorial

SCULPTURE

Fancelli: Catholic Kings sepulchre B. Ordónez: Juana & Felipe sepulchre

SCULPTURE

Alonso Berruguete: Sacrifice of Isaac Juan de Juni: Entombment of Christ

PAINTING

Pedro Berruguete: Annunciation

Luis de Morales: Virgin Mary