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The Italian Renaissance, image, image, image, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Paid them for their work
      - The Medici in Florence
      - The Sforza in Milan
      - The Popes of Rome
  - - - Occurred for two main reasons
        
        The arrival in Italy
        
        Of Greek scholars
        
        Had fled Constantinople
        
        After its conquest by the Turks
        
        Brought classical works with them
        
        On the Italian Penisula
        
        The abundance of Roman remains
        
        The discovery of new archaeological remains
- - - - In Florence
    - - Brunelleschi and Alberti
    - - Ghiberti and Donatello
    - - Masaccio, Fra Angelico and Boticelli
  - - - In Venice
      - By painters such as Giorgine and Titian
  - - - Florentines Bronzino and Pontormo
      - Venetians Tintoretto and Veronese
    - - Cellini and Glambologna
- - - - Florence Cathedral
        
        Brunelleschi
      - Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome
        
        Michelangelo
    - - Columns with classical capitals and entablatures
    - - The church of San Lorenzo in Florence
        
        Brunelleschi
    - - Basilica Santa Maria Novella
    - - Circular
        
        Tempietto di San Pietro
      - Square
        
        Villa La Rotonda
      - Greek cross
        
        Saint Peter's Basilica
  - - - Due to the increased wealth of the bourgeoisie
    - - Urban palaces
      - Town halls
      - Squares
      - Hospitals
      - Theatres
      - Libraries
      - Rural villas
    - - To achieve the harmony of classical architecture
        
        They used different methods
        
        Simplicity
        
        They didn't use many decorative features
        
        Open, diaphanous spaces
        
        Public squares
        
        Proportion
        
        The buildings are symmetrical
        
        The different parts are evenly distibuted
- - - - Idealism and serenity
        
        Painters and sculptors
        
        Tried to reflect reality
        
        Aimed to portray an ideal beauty
        
        The idealism can be seen
        
        In the perfect faces and bodies
        
        Artists like Botticelli, Raphael Sanzio and Leonardo da Vinci
        
        Michelangelo differed from the others
        
        He portrayed intense emotions
      - The human body
        
        Italian painters and sculptors
        
        Were interested in the anatomy of the human body
        
        Revived the nude as a subject
        
        Giorgione and Titian
      - The search for balance and proportion
        
        Artists studied the elements of a scene
        
        And arranged them symmetrically
        
        In an order that guided the view of the observer
        
        They often used a pyramidal composition
        
        Figures were portrayed in proportion
  - - - More expensive materials
        
        Were used more frequently
        
        Marble
      - Reliefs were replaced
        
        By freestanding sculptures
    - - Frescoes on walls
      - Tempera on wooden panels
      - The new oil technique was adopted
        
        Mixing oil with mineral pigments
        
        Used to paint on cloth canvasses
  - - - Mythological themes were adopted
    - - Demand from nobles, clergy and the upper bourgeoisie
      - Equestrian portraits
    - - Were portrayed with enormous accuracy and detail
  - - - The patron who commissioned this work
        
        Was a member of the powerful Medici family
      - It was painted by Botticelli
        
        Took inspiration from classical mythology
      - Painted using the tempera technique
      - There is a clear symmetry to the composition
      - It contains nude
    - - A revolutionary technique
        
        Enabled them to give depth and volume
        
        To scenes, objects and figures
      - In sculpture
        
        Was achieved by
        
        Creating reliefs with various depths
        
        The Gates of Paradise
        
        By Lorenzo Ghiberti
      - In painting
        
        Was achieved by
        
        Placing the figures in different planes
        
        Putting landscapes or architectural features
        
        In the most distant one
        
        The background
        
        Using linear perspective
        
        Arranging the elements on imaginary lines
        
        Which converge at a vanishing point at the back
        
        The School of Athens
        
        By Raphael Sanzio
        
        Aerial perspective
        
        Blurring the background
        
        So it appears to be further away
        
        Using contrasts of light and shadow
        
        To create volume