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The italian renaissance - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The abundance of Roman remains on the Italian peninsula
      - The arrival in Italy of Greek scholars
  - - - 15th century
      - harmony and proportion
      - most important architects are Brunelleschi and Alberti
      - most important sculptors are Ghiberti and Donatello
      - most important painters are Masaccio, Fra Angelico and Botticelli
    - - beginning in 1530, in Italy
      - harmony and proportion were abandoned
      - most important painters
        
        Bronzino and Pontormo
        
        Tintoretto and Veronese
        
        Cellini and Giambologna
    - - 14th century, the end of Gothic art
      - first artist was Giotto
    - - 16th century
      - Rome became the artistic centre
      - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Sanzio belong to this phase
- - - - Villa La Rotonda (squere)
      - and Saint Peter's Basilica(greek cross)
      - the Tempietto di San Pietro (circular)
- - - - new themes adopted during the Italian Renaissance
        
        Christianity, mythological themes were adopted from Classical Antiquity
        
        portraits were painted due to the increase in demand from nobles, clergy...
        
        Nature, landscapes and buildings substituted the backgrounds
    - - The artists reflected the new interests of society
        
        The human body
        
        the anatomy of the human body
        
        They revived the nude as a subject
        
        Examples
        
        the Venuses by Giorgione and Titian
        
        paintings in the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David, which are both by Michelangelo
        
        The search for balance and proportion
        
        artists studied the elements of a scene and arranged them symmetrically
        
        They often used a pyramidal composition
        
        The figures were portrayed in proportion although Michelangelo didn't
        
        Idealism and serenity
        
        painters and sculptors tried to reflect reality
        
        they aimed to portray an ideal beauty
        
        examples
        
        Botticelli and Raphael Sanzio(Madonnas, or virgins, with angelic face)
        
        Leonardo da Vinci (Mona Lisa)
        
        Michelangelo( intense emotions)
  - - - In the case of sculpture
        
        more expensive materials like marble were used more frequently.
        
        three dimensional representations where made which could be contemplated from all angles.
      - paintings
        
        frescoes on walls and tempera on wooden panels
        
        oil technique was adopted (consisting of mixing oil with mineral pigments)
        
        and was used to paint on cloth canvasses
  - - - who painted it
        
        Lorenzo Ghiberti
      - technique
        
        placing the figures in different planes and putting landscapes or architectural features in the most distant one
        
        They also used linear perspective, which consists of arranging the elements on imaginary lines which point at the back
    - - technique
        
        linear perspective
      - who painted it
        
        Raphael Sanzio
    - - subject, the idea
        
        The artist took his inspiration from classical mythology.
      - technique
        
        the tempera technique
      - who painted it
        
        Florentine Sandro Botticelli
      - commissioned by
        
        a member of the powerful Medici family
      - There is a clear symmetry to the composition and it contains a striking image
    - - blurring the background so it appears further away, and using contrasts of light and shadow to create volume.
- - - - Open
        
        diaphanous spaces
      - Proportion
        
        the buildings are symmetrical and the different parts are evenly distributed
      - Simplicity
        
        they did not use many decorative features