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THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, image, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The early features of the Renaissance appear. The first artist was Giotto.
  - - - In Florence, new Renaissance innovations appeared
      - The most important architects are Brunelleschi and Alberti
      - The most important sculptors are Ghiberti and Donatello
      - The most important painters are Masaccio, Fra Angelico and Botticelli
  - - - Rome became the artistic centre
        
        Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Sanzio
      - In Venice
        
        New style was developed by painters
        
        Giorgione and Titian
        
        Spread throughout Europe.
  - - - Florentines = Bronzino and Pontormo
      - Venetians = Tintoretto and Veronese
    - - Cellini and Giambologna.
- - - - Palazzo Pitti
      - Palazzo Medici
      - Plazzo Rucellai
  - - - The buildings are symmetrical
    - - Open, diaphanous spaces, which can be seen in public squares
    - - They did not use many decorative features
- - - - Painters and sculptors tried to reflect reality
        
        Influenced by the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato
        
        They aimed to portray an ideal beauty
        
        Perfect faces and bodies
        
        Botticelli and Raphael Sanzio
        
        Leonardo da Vinci
        
        La Mona Lisa
    - - They revived the nude as a subject
        
        Wich had been abandoned in the Middle Ages
        
        Venuses by Giorgione and Titian
        
        Paintings in the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David
        
        By Michelangelo
    - - They often used a pyramidal composition
      - The figures were portrayed in proportion
      - Michelangelo broke with this convention by introducing imbalance in his works
  - - - More expensive materials
      - Marble were used more frequently
      - Reliefs were replaced by freestanding sculptures
        
        Could be contemplated from all angles
    - - Ancient techniques continued to be used
        
        Frescoes on walls
        
        Tempera on wooden panels
      - New oil technique was adopted
        
        Used to paint on cloth canvasses
  - - - Mythological themes were adopted from Classical Antiquity
    - - Were painted due to the increase in demand from nobles, clergy and the upper bourgeoisie
    - - Substituted the gold backgrounds of the Gothic artists and became the defining feature of all compositions