The document discusses developments in art and architecture from the Early Medieval period through the Renaissance. In the Early Medieval period, Christianity was spreading across Europe leading to the rise of powerful churches and early universities. Gothic cathedrals like Notre Dame featured architecture aimed at expressing a unity between God and humanity. Early Renaissance art moved away from flat, symbolic figures toward more naturalistic and human representations that explored how space could be rationally organized. Key artists of the Italian Renaissance included Brunelleschi, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Raphael, who pioneered techniques like linear perspective, while northern European masters like Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer also made important contributions.
2. Gothic
• Christianity moving across
Europe=population shifts
• Church very powerful
• first universities
• *Architecture: unity bewteen God and
humankind
• Art intended to evoke emotional
responses, expressive nature, religious
fervor
• example of cathedral
5. Early Renaissance
• renewed exploration of human beings in
space
• departure from flatness
• moving away from static, symbolic
figures...more natural and human
• how can space be a rational, measurable
environment
• attempt to create earthly environments
8. Renaissance
• “rebirth”
• 14th-16th c. Europe (mainly Italy)
• humanism
• linear perspective/ mathematical
organization of space
• multi skilled artists
(architects/mathematicians/engineers)
• classical beauty and naturalism
• balance
