1. 15th and 16th Century Italian Art:
The Ninja Turtles
Ms. Lee

2. Humanism
•Humanist writings spread
•Emphasis on education and expanding
knowledge
•Exploration of individual potential
•Commitment to civic responsibility
•Elite funded art

3. Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi
•Competition for the Florence baptistery
•Submitted a relief panel
•Ghiberti won

4. Ghiberti’s Panel
•Emphasized grace and smoothness
•Recalls Greco-Roman statuary
•Appreciation of the nude male
•Includes spatial illusion
Richardfabi, “The Sacrifice of Isaac” March 2005 via Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution

5. Brunelleschi
•Fascination with Roman architecture
•Most acknowledged Renaissance
architect
•Unfinished dome of Florence Cathedral
•Created new building methods and tools

6. The Medici
•Wealthy Florentine banking family
•Cultivated humanists
•Cosimo Medici started first library since
antiquity
•Commissioned many artworks

7. Donatello
•Enthusiasm for Roman virtue and form
•Depicted diverse figures
•Advanced classical idealism and natural
illusion
•David, first free-standing nude since
antiquity
Br1dotcom, “David di Donatello [1/35]” March 9, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution

8. 16th Century
•Designated as High Renaissance
•Developed from 15th Century ideas
•Economy Growing
•Reformation began

9. Leonardo’s Art
•Studied under Verrocchio
•Demonstrated use of chiaroscuro
•Used atmospheric perspective
•Used sfumato (misty haziness)
•The Mona Lisa

10. Leonardo’s Science
•Studied botany, geology, geography,
zoology, ect.
•Influenced his art
•Observational approach
•Anatomy’s importance to art
•Journals included inventions

11. Julius II
•Noted for contributions in art
•Commissioned St. Peter’s basilica,
tomb, Sistine Chapel ceiling, papal
apartments
•Selling of indulgences

12. St. Peter’s Basilica
•Commissioned to gain control of Italy
•Bramante was chosen
•Devoloped form of central-plan church
•Pantheon used as a model
•Unfinished in Bramante’s lifetime
•Passed to Michelangelo to finish

13. Michelangelo’s Sculpture
•Architect, sculptor, painter, poet, engineer
•Saw himself as a sculptor
•Material defines art
•Mistrusted mathematical applications to
art
•Michelangelo’s David
•Julis II’s tomb Jay8085, “David” July 7, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution

14. Michelangelo’s Painting
•Tomb suspension led to Sistine Chapel
ceiling
•Enormous difficulties
•Little experience in fresco painting
•Complicated perspective problems

15. Raphael
•Learned from his father
•Chosen to paint papal apartments in
Vatican
•Only finished library and room of
Heliodorus
•Developed style according to Leonardo
and Michelangelo

16. Summed Up
•Humanism’s importance
•Ghiberti’s influence
•Brunelleschi’s architecture
•Donatello
•Leonardo
•Michelangelo
•Raphael