Merriman Teacher Notes 17 Summer 2023 PDF

## High Renaissance Style (1490-1530) - Wars between France, Spain, HRE were fought in Italian city-states. - Florence no longer the center of Renaissance moved to Rome. ### Developed high relief & silhouette grounded shapes through shading/tones of color - Donatello "The Feast of Herod" c.1457...

## High Renaissance Style (1490-1530) - Wars between France, Spain, HRE were fought in Italian city-states. - Florence no longer the center of Renaissance moved to Rome. ### Developed high relief & silhouette grounded shapes through shading/tones of color - Donatello "The Feast of Herod" c.1457 - da Vinci "The Last Supper" c. 1495-98 * Judas is the only figure painted in shadow - Saw painting as the highest form of art. - Master of mathematics, anatomy, and optics - Representation of beauty - Michelangelo ### Natural representation - Re-introduction of nude figures - Michelangelo the ultimate expression of mankind as divine creation. ### Religious, Public, & Private Life Overlapped - Reveal the faces that had religious imagining. - Devotional images (ex voto's) were in public. - Heavily artistic Tombs - Even with secularization, religious themes dominated paintings. #### Virgin Mary - Stimulate piety and encouraged classical morality. ### Painting - Symbolism in Renaissance - History - Mythology - Michelangelo "The Last Judgement" 1536-41 - Portraits - Monumental ### Mannerism (1520s) - Unsurpassed scale, exaggerated drama, submersion of detail to a total emotional effect. - St. Peter's Basilica (1506-1626) - Renaissance, Mannerist, Baroque Style - Crazy expensive ### Imaginative distortions, a sense of restlessness - Reaction against the classical ideal. - Emotion, mysticism, illusion. - Michelangelo "Moses". 1515 #### 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling - Michelangelo depicted: - Creation - Original Sin - The Flood - The Last Judgement #### Pope Julius II was offended by the nudes and ordered fig leaves - Michelangelo offered private areas ### The End of the Renaissance - Shift of economy to the Atlantic. - Economy in Italian city-states was more vulnerable to foreign invasion. - Battles between France & Spain over Italian city-states. ### Foreign invasion - 1451 Alliance between France, Milan, Florence against Venice. - 1453 Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople - A more threat politically & economically in Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea. - 1454 Peace of Lodi - Florence, Milan, Venice banded together to discourage the advancement of France. - Brought 40 years of mostly peace. ### Established Italian League - Whenever one or two states became aggressive, (Venice & Papal state attacked Ferrara). Others joined together to maintain peace. - Wars fought by mercenaries.