Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance

What is the Renaissance and how did it happen?

• Europe was coming out of the Medieval period and the Bubonic Plague

• A growing middle/upper class in Italy poured money into a revival of classic Greek and Roman culture.

Italian Renaissance

• The word "Renaissance" means rebirth, as in the rebirth of classical Greek and Roman ideas.

• Specifically a rebirth of classical art, philosophy, and a focus on humanity's ability.

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What does "Renaissance" mean?

• Rebirth

• Reheat

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• Reply

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Where did the Renaissance begin?

• Germany

• Spain

• France

• Italy

What did the Renaissance affect?

• Art

• Philosophy

• Society

Renaissance art

• Renaissance artists used new techniques like:

• Perspective: Creating 3-d space in 2-d drawings/paintings

• Fresco: Painting on fresh plaster

• Chiaroscuro: Shading dark and light

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Painting technique that used light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects.

• chiaroscuro

• fresco

• freehand

• noir sculpting

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A painting technique done on fresh wet plaster...

• Humanism

• Fresco

• Michelangelo

• Perspective

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In this painting, the large area in the foreground (front) shrinks down to the smaller area in the back, giving it dimension. This is an example of....

• Secularism

• Perspective

• Water color techniques

• Pointilism

Famous Renaissance artists

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo Buonarotti

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Botticelli

Why were there so many artists?

• During the Renaissance, rich Italian nobles and merchants paid artists and writers to create works of art, or literature for them.

• This was called "patronage," and the person who paid for the art was called a "patron."

• In Florence, the Medici family famously were patrons of many influetial artists and writers.

• The Catholic Church also supported or contracted with many artists.

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a person who provides financial support for the arts

• Vernacular
• Banker
• Petrarch
• Patron

Leonardo da Vinci

• Artist, mathematician, engineer, polymath

• Most famous work is the Mona Lisa

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Michelangelo

• Probably the most famous Italian Renaissance artist

• Multiple famous works like the David, the Pieta, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Last Judgment, and others

• Sculptor and painter

Other important artists

• Raphael: Painter

• Donatello: Sculptor

• Botticelli: Painter

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You would find this painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of what building?

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• The Louvre

• The US Capitol

• Sistine Chapel

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This work by Michelangelo is called what?

• Michael

• Noah

• David

• Vitruvius

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Who created this?

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Theodore Mancini

• Michelangelo

• Donatello

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This famous painting was done by

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

• Michelangelo

• Picasso