World History, October 12 Entry Task: 10 ?s - Guess - Middle ages OR Renaissance??? (You can put M or R) Announcements: - PHONE - my 2-year old daughter may have broken her nose this am, so I’m keeping my phone on! - Did you turn in the chart (from TH/F) about Renaissance art? - You need a piece of paper!
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Renaissance in Italy The conditions that led to the Renaissance in Italy: - Crusades (trade routes) opened contact with more advanced civilizations - The Church lost much of its power, and people began to doubt its ultimate authority. - Due to trade, merchants = wealthy. The wealthy competed for status (show offs!) - New philosophy of enjoying this life instead of simply waiting for the next one.
Humanism - Humanism consists of four essential aspects: 1. Admiration of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. 2. Philosophy of enjoying this life, instead of just waiting for the next one. 3. The glorification of humans and the belief that individuals are can do anything. 4. The belief that humans deserved to be the center of attention.
How were artists trained? Apprentice ~ age 12 - humble tasks (sweeping, grinding/mixing pigments) - then drawing sketches, copying paintings, etc
Fact: Leonardo da Vinci listed thirty-six services that he could perform for his patrons.
Artists = Celebrities Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Giorgio Vasari 1550
Renaissance Art Artists gained prestige, no longer anonymous - became celebrities Patrons (“mecenas”) - financed and protected artists. Patrons commissioned artwork and decided the themes - Kings & Popes - Medici Family in Florence were the most famous and wealthy patrons in the Renaissance.
- Giotto di Bondone → Patrons: King of Naples Called Father of the and Pope Benedict XI Renaissance (1267 – 1337) was a painter famous for the solid bodies, the expression of human emotion, and the suggestion of landscape in his paintings.
-- Masaccio → (1401 – 1428) was a painter who used the inspiration of the ancients to put a new emphasis on nature, on three-dimensional human bodies, and on perspective. He also was the first painter since the ancients to show nudes in his paintings.
Trinity, Masaccio
- Donatello (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi) → (1386 – 1466) was mainly a sculptor whose focus was on the beauty of the human body. He made some of the first nude sculptures since the ancients.
Florence Cathedral - east doors Gates of Paradise - Lorenzo Ghiberti 1425-52
- Filippo Brunelleschi → (1377 – 1446) was an architect whose work was groundbreaking for its simplicity, symmetry, balance and harmony. Additionally, he created the largest dome built in Europe since the ancients in a cathedral in Florence.
Cathedral construction began in 1296...Dome construction was from 1420-1436 (Giotto designed the bell tower; Donatello assisted in modeling the dome; da Vinci engineered and designed the copper ball and cross at the top of the dome)
- Sandro Boticelli → (1445- 1510) new genre of art - inspired by poetry, fantasy (la Primavera) Patron - Lorenzo de’ Medici
Birth of Venus - Botticelli - kept behind closed doors for 500 years! Religious fervor = destruction of art
- Leonardo da Vinci → (1452 – 1519) was an unorthodox painter (and a scientist, writer, inventor, etc) whose paintings are remarkable for their technical perfection: use of angles, perspective, and a detailed background.
Leonardo da Vinci - Artist - Sculptor - Architect - Scientist - Engineer - Inventor
Quick biography and inventions of da Vinci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwOlIGGDVjE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrV91kOn-ao
World History, October 13 Entry Task: Uffizi Gallery (Florence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61uXUxmpKWg Announcements: - Please take out your notes from yesterday! You can write notes from our reading and do your writing prompt here. - Questions answered! Let me know if you have more! - Common techniques: Fresco, egg tempera, and oil (after 1500) painting (Middle Ages = - egg tempera paintings were done on carefully prepared wood panels, often with gold) - Valuable material = alum (mostly used in making wool) - Medicis had a CARTEL - fixed prices, controlled good - Mona Lisa - stolen in 1911 - employee at the Louvre (Paris) 1956 - acid and a rock damaged the painting!
da Vinci’s Last Supper - fresco had tempera and oil mixed in to slow process which caused deterioration of the piece Mona Lisa - oil on wood Birth of Venus - egg tempera on wood
- Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino → (1483 – 1520) was a painter who used his mastery of perspective and ancient styles to produce works of harmony, beauty, and serenity and convey a sense of peace. Patron: Pope Julius II
The School of Review Athens, Raphael - Variety of poses - No Christian themes - Important Greek philosophers and thinkers included (Michelangelo as Heraclitus- weeping)
- Raphael’s Review “selfie”
Betrothal of the Virgin, Raphael 1504
- Michelangelo Buonarroti → (1475 – 1564) was a painter who also experimented in poetry, architecture, and sculpture. Most of his work focuses on individuals who always give a sense of strength and ambition. Watch: Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u8LDXhFzPo Patron: Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X
Venus de Milo (GREEK) VS David (Michelangelo) (RENAISSANCE) - 17 feet high!
Pieta, 1498-99
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEE3B8Fsuc0
Ceiling: 1508-1512
1536-1541 Alter wall - Last Judgment Separation - Blessed from the Damned
- Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) → (1479 – 1576) was a painter who painted scenes of luxury in such a vivid, immediate way that his paintings seem real to the viewer.
Virgin and Child, Titian Patron: Phillip II (Spain)
Portraits Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.
Reading: The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione Courtier - a person who attends a royal court as a companion or adviser to the king or queen According to Castiglione, what are the basic attributes of the Renaissance courtier? Make a LIST. How did the values of this courtier influence the development of a modern aristocratic class in Western Europe?
Writing Prompt In what ways did Renaissance art and philosophy reinforce each other? (AND/OR) How did the artists of the Italian Renaissance incorporate the new intellectual and cultural trends of their time into their art?
The Northern Renaissance 1. What were the characteristics of the art of the Northern Renaissance? How did it reflect the societies of Northern Europe? 2. How was the Northern Renaissance different from that in Renaissance Italy?
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