Great Masters PDF
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These notes cover the history of Renaissance art, culture, and architecture through the lives and works of notable artists and thinkers. It includes information on major Renaissance events, periods, and ideals. The information is presented as lecture-style notes.
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# Great Masters - Renaissance - rebirth/revival of the classical - Rome and Piza: great access to classical Sculpture - By this time most sculpture has lost its paint there is a known/accepted concept of marble purity - Male member is demure: reflective of greek Ideals: small + tapered reflects rea...
# Great Masters - Renaissance - rebirth/revival of the classical - Rome and Piza: great access to classical Sculpture - By this time most sculpture has lost its paint there is a known/accepted concept of marble purity - Male member is demure: reflective of greek Ideals: small + tapered reflects reason+ are uncircumcized - 1487: Man is the measure of all things - 1492: restored the distinctive arts, Humanist Ken Marsillio Ficino (1433-1499) return to antiquity art, poetry, Sculpture ## Three crowns of Italian lit: - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) - Giovani Boccaccio (1313-1375) - Visari (1511-1574) first historical artist writings written from artist's Biographies - Giotto di Bondone (1265-1337) - Michelangelo (Dates??) - Renaissance: Enlightened beyond the medieval period during the renaissance. Man is a reflection of god so an overall Value of man appreciation # Synconysm of progression + tradition - Golden rules: pride of the past peace in the presence and confidence for the future allowed a society to flourish aka a golden age - Discoveries of lost sculpture is important during this time (Cisth cent) - Roman forum: - Apollo body discovery 1409 influences concepts of male beauty (soft facial features with muscular body, full lips, curly hair (6’s tall)), youthful beauty - Greeks tend to use freiran marble (Sparkles) - 2nd century AD (Greek) - 1st century AD (prob Roman) - Grotesque: comes from word Grotto Meaning Cave. Means things of the caves - Renaissance artists and thinkers seeked to surpass antiquity through use of Christian theology and modern thinking + science - Views of nature: respected through natural observation during renaissance - Golden rose: precious ornament sent to pope (Epand) # Drawing of lily is a scientific exploration of an actual flower - late 13th cont - 16th century: Renaissance dates - The pulpet Start of Ren, Raphael’s accession and end of Ren - 1503: Davinci, Raphael, Michicalangelo in Florence in the same time # Duecento (1200-1299) - 13th Century - 1226 - St. Fracis died, cannonized in 1228 - Founding of mendican order - 3d sculpture is reappreciated In the past freestanding sculpture was believed that it could be inhabited by demons - 14th cent. (trecento) nce in guilds, empowers a new class of patrons during this re-emergence of merchant class - Lit reflects interest in poetry + questioning the church st. and become more humanized (Class hieretic) - 1400’s: study of anatomy (illegal in the church) Quatrocento (15th cent) humanism becomes standard, courtly families become more imp. than religious fig Interest in portrait, neoplatonism, - Oil painting introduced (1465-1475) from Flanders Crocnal to Da Vinci - 1453: Fall of Constantonople - 1475: Portanari altarpiece influx of
