Renaissance+Art

Desi Oktaviani

Renaissance Art


 * Thesis**: Renaissance art was the beginning of a new outlook as humans became the center of the universe and religion and antiquity was shown in the painters detailed works such as Donatello, Da Vinci and Michaelangelo.

-Began in Florence, Italy - Imitate nature -Humans became the center of everything

Boticelli's: //__Primavera__//
 * -Sandro Boticelli **
 * Interested in Greek and Roman mythology
 * //__Primavera__// also known as //__Spring__//; Garden of Venus which was a garden of eternal spring
 * Classical ancient times
 * Well distinct figures


 * -Donato Di Donatello **
 * //__Statue of David__//; First life-size statue, **bronze nude version**
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg/250px-Donatello_-_David_-_Floren%C3%A7a.jpg]]
 * Statue celebrated Florentine heroism
 * Simple and power which reflected the pride of humanity


 * -Filippo Brunelleschi **
 * Inspired from architectural monuments of Roman antiquity
 * Architecht
 * Designed the //__Church__ __of San Lorenzo__//
 * Inspired by Roman models
 * Classic columns, rounded arches, coffered ceiling
 * Comfortable for humans
 * Used geometric principles

-Accurate interpretation of facial features and at the same time showed the inner traits of the characters on the canvas

High renaissance artists da Vinci's: //__Mona Lisa__//
 * Raphael
 * Started as a painter at age 25
 * Madonnas were used to achieve an ideal of beauty
 * Painted Frescoes in the Vatican Palace
 * __//School of Athens//__ classical influence of renaissance art, used faces of his inspirations(da Vinci, Bramante, and Michaelangelo)
 * [[image:http://artchronicler.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/school-of-athens2.jpg width="862" height="249"]]
 * Donato Bramante
 * Small temple on the site of Saint Peter's martyrdom
 * Doric columns
 * Recaptured the beauty of more
 * Basilica; Church with broad nave and columned aisles
 * Jan Van Eyeck
 * First to use the oil paint which allowed a wide range of colors and very detailed paints
 * //__Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife__//
 * Realistic observations of the laws by visual reality
 * Albert Durer
 * //__Adoration of Magi__//
 * [[image:http://www.albrecht-durer.org/Adoration-Of-The-Magi.jpg width="320" height="199" caption="Adoration Of The Magi - Albrecht Durer - www.albrecht-durer.org"]]
 * Usage of watercolors made him one of the 1st European landscape artist
 * Michaelangelo
 * Painter, Sculptor and Architect
 * Influenced by Neoplatonism
 * Created 14 feet high sculpture of "David", **marble version**
 * Spent many years creating and completing the frescoes in Sistine Chapel; painted nine scenes from the Old Testament
 * Pieta sculptor which is now located in the Basilica of St.Peter
 * [[image:http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/michelangelo/pieta.jpg width="268" height="277"]]
 * Leonardo da Vinci
 * //__Last supper, Mona Lisa__// works in oil paint
 * Studied everything and dissected to see how nature worked
 * Drawings of planks of a tank, helicopters, ideal construction of the roads and canal system

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