Renaissance

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  • Period: 500 BCE to 500

    Classical Period

    Classical art was from 500 BC to 500 AD
    Purpose-to glorify human form and to honor gods and goddessesClassical art had no emotion on faces
    Scenes typically were heroic scenes, but also depicted everyday life
    There is little or no background or perspective in classical art
  • Period: 500 to Apr 10, 1300

    Midieval Period

    Included stained glass, sculptures, manuscripts, paintings, and tapestries
    Used to teach religion to those who couldn’t read or write
    Extremely 2D
    Clothed, but clothing is rigid
    Important people are larger
    Backgrounds are in one color, usually gold
  • Apr 9, 1286

    Santa Maria Del Fiore

    Built by arnaldo del cambio built in 1286, but it had no dome
  • Period: Apr 9, 1300 to

    Renaissance period

    From 1400-1650 AD
    Art was usually sculptures, murals. Drawings and paintings
    Religious & not religious
    Ideal and active bodies
    Nude or clothed
    Expressive faces Had nature and the color responds to light
  • Period: Apr 9, 1337 to Apr 10, 1453

    Hundred Years War

    England vs. France
    1337-1453
    Victory was passed back and forth between England and France
    Joan of Arc led France to push out the English
    Was quickly captured and then executed
    Gave rise to nationalism
    Fighting over control of land in france
    Empowered kings in france
    Empowered English parliament
    Extreme pride in your nation and culture
  • Period: Apr 9, 1380 to Apr 10, 1460

    Jan and Hubert Van Eyck

    Painters
    Flemish
    Netherlands Known for attention to detail and facial expressions The Arnolfini Portrait-Jan Van Eyck
  • Apr 9, 1385

    Doors Contest

    Filippo Brunelleschi was interested in design
    Competition to replace doors, between Brunelleschi and. Ghiberti, in 1401, he loses the competition and moves to rome to study ancient architecture for 2 decades
    Wanted to unlock the secret of the construction of the Pantheon dome
    Comes back just in time to be in the challenge to construct the dome
  • Apr 9, 1400

    Why Italy?

    Thriving trade cities
    A wealthy merchant class
    Heritage of ancient Rome
    Also the rest of Europe was embroiled in the Hundred Years War...In the center of the world
    Wealthy city states
    Could afford to finance art
    Merchants:
    City-states: large cities that function with their own independent government
    Became the most powerful and influential class
    Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome
    Social class was earned, not inherited
    Individual achievement became an important thing
  • Apr 9, 1402

    Medici Family

    Florence
    Main banking family in Europe
    Set up currency exchange tables at international fairs
    Credit
    Also had branches all over Italy and France and England
    You buy a good and promise to pay back the value of the good at a later date
    Promissory note: pay back the value of the good + intrest
  • Apr 9, 1403

    Spread to northern Europe

    Wealthy families from northern Europe begins sending their sons to be educated in Italy
    Northern merchants travelled to International Fairs in Italy
    Books
  • Apr 9, 1404

    Northern Renaissance Thinking

    New/ rebirth of thinking in Northern European countries Italian Renaissance focused on the classics-- many Northern Renaissance thinkers focused on early Christianity
    Germany, Belgium, Netherlands
    Didn’t have the classical heritage that Italy had-can’t see ancient ruins
  • Period: Apr 9, 1418 to Apr 10, 1434

    Duomo Built

    Brun wins his design to the judges-1418
    A dome within a dome
    He had to build with Ghi
    Inner dome is pretty, outer dome protects the inner dome
    Invented hoist is driven by oxen to lift heavy materials up to the dome
    Invented Castello, or crane, to move the materials horizontally
    Granted a patent for a river transport vessel
    Created a brick laying technique to place the weight of the dome evenly-herringbone pattern
    Created chains outside the dome so it didn’t collapse outward
  • Period: Mar 1, 1445 to May 17, 1510

    Sandro Botticelli

    Florence, Italy
    Studied under Filippo Lippi

    Painter
    Under the Medici family patronage
    Some families got really rich
    Rich fams paid for artists to make art and live
    Called being their patron
    Painted: Birth of Venus 1486
    Adoration of the Magi 1475
    Primavera 1482
  • Apr 9, 1445

    Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press in the 1440s in Germany
    By 1500, more than 2,500 European cities had their own printing presses
    More books printed= cheaper to buy Moveable type-block letters that look like stamps that can be arranged into sentences and printed on a page.
  • Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

    Leonardo DaVinci

    Inventor, artist, engineer
    Considered a “Renaissance man”
    Florence, Italy
    Under Medici family patronage (among others) Mona Lisa 1506/17
    The Last Supper 1498
    The Vitruvian Man 1490
    Flying Machine
  • Period: Apr 9, 1466 to Apr 10, 1536

    Desiderius Erasmus

    Christian humanist
    Felt that the Church and society had become corrupt
    Wrote Pointed out similarities between christ and classical thinkers
    Wrote a book called the praise of Folly which criticized pilgrimages to shrines, fasting, and church interpretation of the bible
  • Period: Apr 9, 1471 to Apr 10, 1528

    Albrecht Durer

    Germany
    Copper engravings & woodcuts
    Make prints Melancholia I
  • Period: Mar 6, 1475 to Feb 18, 1564

    Michelangelo

    March 6, 1475- February 18, 1564
    Painter, sculptor, architect
    Under Medici family patronage
    Considered a renaissance man
    Under 9 pope’s patronage The creation of Adam
    Sistine chapel 1508-1512
    The David 1504
  • Period: Apr 9, 1478 to Apr 10, 1535

    Thomas More

    Wrote Utopia (1516)
    Refused to acknowledge King Henry VIII as the Head of the Church of England
    Henry had him beheaded
    Argued against the private ownership of property
  • Period: Apr 16, 1483 to Apr 6, 1520

    Raphael Sanzio

    April 16, 1483- April 6 1520
    Florence & Rome, Italy
    Painter
    Painted under patronage of pope Julius II School of Athens
    The marriage of the virgin
  • Period: Apr 9, 1497 to Apr 10, 1543

    Hans Holbein

    Painter
    German
    Many portraits Showed that people were important, not just god Henry VIII
  • Period: Apr 9, 1525 to Apr 10, 1556

    Pieter Brueghel

    Painter
    The Netherlands Scenes of villagers, festivals, and the countryside Children’s Games
  • Period: Apr 9, 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    English playwright
    Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo & Juliet, etc.
    Existed during golden age of theater in England