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Module 4 - Early Renaissance

The document discusses Renaissance architecture and art. Key figures like Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, and Leonardo Da Vinci shaped Renaissance architecture. Technological breakthroughs included the use of oil on canvas, linear perspective techniques, chiaroscuro shading, and three-dimensional compositions. The Renaissance saw a revival of classical arts between the 15th and 17th centuries in Europe as political stability increased.

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Module 4 - Early Renaissance

The document discusses Renaissance architecture and art. Key figures like Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, and Leonardo Da Vinci shaped Renaissance architecture. Technological breakthroughs included the use of oil on canvas, linear perspective techniques, chiaroscuro shading, and three-dimensional compositions. The Renaissance saw a revival of classical arts between the 15th and 17th centuries in Europe as political stability increased.

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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

 Famous architects and artists such as


 Brunelleschi,
 Alberti,
 Bramante,
 Michael Angelo,
 Palladio,
 And Leonardo Di Vinci were shapers of renaissance
architecture.
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and company created some
fabulous paintings and sculptures that we continue to marvel over
many centuries later.
The Renaissance (a word which literally means "born anew") is a

name we've given to a period in Western history during which the


arts - so important in Classic cultures - were revived.
The arts had quite a difficult time remaining important during the

Middle Ages, given all of the territorial struggles that were occurring
throughout Europe.
People living then had enough to do merely figuring out how to stay

in the good graces of whomever was ruling them, while the rulers
were preoccupied with maintaining or expanding control.
With the large exception of the Roman Catholic Church, no one had

much time or thought left over to devote toward the luxury of art.
 Technological Breakthroughs of Renaissance
 1.Oil on stretched canvas (before (before fresco or
tempera on wood panels)
 2. Perspective (giving weight & depth to form)
 3. Use of light & shadow – chiaroscuro – instead of
just drawing lines
 4. Pyramid configuration, more 3D, symmetrical
compositions climax at center the focal point,
(before horizontal grid in foreground)
OIL ON CANVAS
PERSPECTIVE
 Renaissance 1400‐1600 C.E.
 Division of renaissance into
 Proto;
 Early;
 High;
 Late;
 Mannerism;
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 “The Renaissance" had no clear beginning date, started first in
those areas which had the highest relative levels of political
stability and spread, not like wildfire, but in a series of different
phases which occurred between the years c. 1150 and c. 1600.
 The Pre- (or "Proto"-) Renaissance began in a northern enclave

of present-day Italy sometime around 1150 or so.


 It didn't, at least initially, represent a wild divergence from any

other Medieval art.


 What made the Proto-Renaissance important was that the area in

which it began was stable enough to allow explorations in art to


develop.
 Fifteenth-century Italian Art, often referred to as the "Early

Renaissance",
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 generally means artistic goings-on in the Republic of Florence between
the years 1417 and 1494. (This doesn't mean nothing happened prior to
1417, by the way. The Proto-Renaissance explorations had spread to
include artists throughout northern Italy.
 Florence was the spot, for a number of factors, that the Renaissance

period really caught hold and stuck


 At the beginning of the 15th century, Italy experienced a cultural

rebirth, a renaissance that would massively affect all sectors of society.


 Turning away from the preceding Gothic and Romanesque periods'

iconography, Florentine artists spurred a rejuvenation of the glories of


classical art in line with a more humanistic and individualistic
emerging contemporary era.
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 Based in this flourishing new environment that
empowered people to fully immerse themselves in
studies of the humanities, Early Renaissance artists
began to create work intensified by knowledge of
 Architecture,
 Philosophy,
 Theology,
 Mathematics,
 Science, and Design.
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 The innovations that emerged in art during this period
would go on to cause reverberations, which continue to
influence creative and cultural arenas today.
 This Early Renaissance is also known as the
Quattrocento, derived from the Italian mille
quattrocento, meaning 1400, and refers primarily to the
period dominating the 15th century in Italian art.
 It was the forebear to the following High
Renaissance, North European Renaissance, Mannerism,
and Baroque periods that followed.
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 Key Ideas & Accomplishments
 An evolution of radically fresh artistic techniques came into
practice,
 departing from the flat-planed and two-dimensional icon artworks
that were popular included the introduction of revolutionary
methods such as
 one point linear perspective, derived from an understanding of math
and architecture,
  relieve schiacciato, a new style of shallow carving to create
atmospheric effect,
 Foreshortening,
 Naturalistic and Anatomical detail,
 Proportion
 and the use of chiaroscuro and trompe l'oeil to create illusionary
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 New subject matter evolved beyond the traditional religious
stories that had historically dominated art.
 This included battle scenes, portraits, and depictions of
ordinary people.
 Art was no longer a way to solely elevate the devotional, but
became a way to document the people and events of
contemporary times, alongside the historical.
 Early Renaissance artists were highly influenced by the
Humanist philosophy that emphasized that man's relationship
with the world, the universe,
 and God was no longer the exclusive province of the Church.
EARLY RENAISSANCE
 This resulted in work that emphasized the emotionally
expressive and individualistic characteristics of its subjects in
fresh new ways, leading to a more intimate way for viewers to
experience art.
 A new standard of patronage in the arts arose during this time,
separate from the church or monarchy.
 Artists were suddenly in demand to produce work that
expressed historical, and often religious, narratives in bold
new ways for a community that fostered the arts and nurtured
its artists like never before.

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