1. The Art of the Renaissance

8. Characteristics of Renaissance Art

11. See the difference???

15. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Chiaroscuro Contrast b/w light and dark Sfumato Layers of color promote depth

17. Renaissance Florence

18. Renaissance Florence The Wool Factory by Mirabello Cavalori, 1570 1252 – first gold florins minted Florentine lion: symbol of St. Mark

19. Lorenzo the Magnificent 1478 - 1521 Cosimo de Medici 1517 - 1574

20. Florence Under the Medici Medici Chapel The Medici Palace

22. Dome Comparisons Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US Capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

23. Ghiberti – Gates of Paradise Baptistry Door, Florence – 1425 - 1452

25. The Renaissance 'Individual'

30. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4

31. Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

32. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

33. horizontal vertical Perspective! The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

35. A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

39. Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy): Pages from his Notebook

40. Leonardo, the Inventor: Pages from his Notebook

41. Man Can Fly?

42. A study of siege defenses. Studies of water-lifting devices. Leonardo, the Engineer: Pages from his Notebook

43. Renaissance Rome

44. Comparing Domes

47.  15c 16c  What a difference a century makes!

48. The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

49. The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

50. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

51. The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

52. The Sistine Chapel Details The Fall from Grace

53. The Sistine Chapel Details The Last Judgment

54. 3. Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) Self-Portrait , 1506 Portrait of the Artist with a Friend , 1518

55. Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504

57. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11 Raphael Da Vinci Michelangelo

58. Aristotle : looks to this earth [the here and now]. Plato : looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm]. The School of Athens – Raphael, details

59. Averroes Hypatia Pythagoras

60. Zoroaster Ptolemy Euclid

61. Raphael!!!

62. The Liberation of St. Peter by Raphael, 1514

65. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

66. and now for something completely different…..

67. Sandro Botticelli The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, 1483

68. Sandro Botticelli The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (without people) by Jose Manuel Ballester

69. The Northern Renaissance

72. Flemish Realism

73. Hubert Van Eyck - Adoration of the Lamb , Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

74. Jan Van Eyck – Portrait of a Man in a Turban, 1433

75. Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) The Deposition 1435

76. van der Weyden’s Deposition (details)

77. Pieter Paul Rubens – Prometheus Bound, 1618

78. The Low Countries

79. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights 1500

80. Bosch’s “Garden” without people or animals by Jose Manuel Ballester

81. Bruegel’s, Tower of Babel , 1563

82. Bruegel’s Winter Landscape, 1621

83. Bruegel’s Winter Landscape ( without people) by Jose Manuel Ballester

84. Germany

86. Dürer – Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe , 1500

87. Durer – The Triumphal Arch , 1515-1517

88. The Triumphal Arch , details

89. The Triumphal Arch , details

90. Dürer Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse woodcut, 1498

91. England

93. Artist to the Tudors Henry VIII (left), 1540 and the future Edward VI (above), 1543.

94. The English Were More Interested in Architecture than Painting Hardwick Hall, designed by Robert Smythson in the 1590s, for the Duchess of Shrewsbury [more medieval in style].

95. Burghley House for William Cecil The largest & grandest house of the early Elizabethan era.

96. Mentmore Tower, Buckinhamshire This was built in 1855 but is modeled after the Renaissance style of architecture you’ve just seen

97. Spain

99. El Greco – The Disrobing of Christ, 1577-1579