Renaissance Art & History PDF
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These notes cover various aspects of Renaissance art and history, discussing prominent artists, architectural styles, and historical events. The notes detail important figures like Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, and others. The document also mentions scientific exploration of the lily flower and the development of oil painting techniques.
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# Great Masters - Renaissance → rebirth /revival of the classical - Rome and Pisa: 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...
# Great Masters - Renaissance → rebirth /revival of the classical - Rome and Pisa: 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 artes, 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. # Syncronysm 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 (15th century) - Roman forum - Apollo bod bed videry discovered 1409 influences concepts of male beauty (soft facial features with muscular body, full lips, curly hair (6's tall's) youthful beaty) - 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 a lily is a scientific exploration of an actual flower. - Late 13th century - 16th century: Renaissance dates. - The pulpet, start of Ren, Raphael's accession and end of Ren. - 1503. Davinci, Raphael, Michaelangelo in Florence in the same time. - Duecento (1200-1299) - 13th century - 1226. St. Fracis died, canonized in 1228 - Founding of mendican order - 3d sculpture is reappreciated. In the past free standing sculpture was believed that it could be inhabited by demons. - 14th century (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 (less hieratic) # 1400's: study of anatomy (illegal in the church) - Quatrocento (15th Century) - Humanism becomes standard, courtly families become more imp. than religious fig. - Interest in portrait, neoplatonism - Oil painting introduced (1465-1475) from Flanders, crucial to Da Vinci. - 1453. Fall of Constantinople. - 1475. Portanari altarpiece influx of
