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8.02 THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
1 ARCHITECTURE:
Caracteristics of Renaissance architecture:
BUILDING CONCEPT AND DESIGN
Balance in shapes and proportion
Adapting to human ideas
THE GROWTH OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE
Civil building gained importance
Such as hospitals and palaces
A RETURN TO CLASSICAL STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Architects returned to the use of columns
They imitated Ancient Greek and Roman designs
QUATTROCENTO
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore was designed by Brunelleschi and completed in 1436
Cattedrale di Santa Maria: One of the most important achievements of Quattrocento architecture
CIINQUECENTO
The construction of St Peter's Basilica, in the Vatician, began in 1504
Bramante was the architect who built this construction
After he died, an arquitect called Michelangelo continued the St Peter's Basilica project
Artistic changes that ocurred in 15th and 16th centuries
2 PAINTING
A wider variety of themes
Mythology, allegory, history and portraits were added to the more traditional religious themes
The main caracteristics of Renaissance painting were:
PROPORTION
Painters focused on faithful representation and proportion
They painted beauty and and perfect human figures
Portrait od Sculptor(1518), made by Andrea del Sarto
BALANCE
Harmonious balance of the painting
The Marriage of the Virgin(1504), made by Rafael
THE USE OF LIGHT
Light was used to depict areas of light and shadow
Perfecting the illusion of depth
In La Gioconda, or Mona Lisa(circa 1503), Leonardo da Vinci used the sfumato technique to cerate blurred contours
THE ILLUSION OF DEPTH
Artsits developed the technique of perspective
Andrea Mantegna experimented with perspective and achieved the illusion of depth for the first time
QUATTROCENTTO
Botticeli was the most important artist in the 15th century
He developed techniques of depth and perspective
The Birth of Venus made by Sandro Botticeli in 1484
An example of a harmonious, symmetrical composition and elegant drawing
CINQUECENTO
In the 16th century, ther were many other great painters
They produced their work such as Michelangelo's paintings
The creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, is a fresco painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
