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The Renaissance, High Renaissance, Aesthetic qualities in renaissance art,…
The Renaissance
After birth of ideology- rebirth of Greek and Roman ideology. - INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE.
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Society stable- less wars, more education- more money and time for art.
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High Renaissance
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Artists - Creators helped God / Rome very important - pope commissioned art / Pope Julius V had Michelangelo and Raffaello working for him.
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Raffaello - "School of Atens"-
Plato pointing upwards to show ideal world while Aristotle pointing towards people as he believes in people.
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Innovations
Spatial Arrangement of Figures-
In middle ages- size denoted importance.
In Renaissance this outweighed by human-like proportions.
Example- Masaccio's "The holy trinity"
Da Vinci "Mona Lisa"
Perfection in anatomical details-
Artists - master of human anatomy.
One could see veins , ribcage, muscles.
Chiaroscuro - Distinction between dark and light colours. Mona Lisa - yellow face, dark hands.
Linear perspective - Straight lines covering towards vanishing point, using mathematical formula depth illusion.
Aerial Perspective ( sfumato) - Discovered by DaVinci - Detailed colours for closer objects and less detail for faraway object.
The "Annunciation" or "Mona Lisa"
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Early Renaissance
Main Architect - Brunelleschi - Discovered linear perspective.
Simplicity, Symmetry, proportion.
Some of his achievements- Florentine dome Linear perspective
Main Painter- Used Brunelleschi's techniques.
Innovations of Giotto and linear perspective.
Classical elements - order, symmetry, columns, arches)
Only painted Frescos- The Holy Trinity
Main Sculptor - Donatello
Went to Rome to study sculptors
The David - good vs evil and Florence, small city, small statue.
Between Early Renaissance - Artists were better than early Renaissances. But not perfect.
Botticelli - Mythology, dramatic paintings.
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Innovative Techniques
Instead of tempera, oil was used for painting - more room for adjustments as longer to dry.
3D was emerged with linear, objects have vanishing point- view seems to be going into picture.
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Themes of Paintings
Biblical, portraits (Mona Lisa)
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