Chapter 19 The Renaiassance through the Baroque 12 04 2012 Renaissance means Rebirth The Gothic era has been called a long overture to the Renaissance October from Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry The Limbourg Brothers First time since classical antiquity as casting actual shadows upon the ground The scene is full of realistic detail Potential of landscape to render a sense of actual space The Early Renaissance The Renaissance is perhaps most of all the ear of individual Petrarch had conceived of a new Humanism a philosophy that emphasized the unique value of each person He believed that the birth of Christ had ushered in an age of faith which had blinded the world to learning and thus condemned it to darkness Florence became the cultural center of the early Renaissance The three leading innovators of the arts in 15th century Florence were the painter Masaccio sculptor Donatello and the architect Filippo Brunelleschi Brunelleschi invented geometric linear perspective a system he probably developed in order to study the ruins of ancient Rome Donatello David First life size hude sculpture since antiquity Posed in perfectly classical contrapposto o Masaccio The Tribute Money Atmospheric perspective o Rogier van der Weyden Deposition Piero della Francesca The Flagellation of Christ The High Renaissance Botticelli uses mythological themes to transform his pagan imagery into a source of Christian inspiration and love Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus Three Great Artist of the High Renaissance Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Leonardo da Vinci A Scythed Chariot Armored Car and Pike The Last Supper by Leonardo is considered to be the first painting of the High Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Raphael The School of Athens Depicts a gathering of the greatest philosophers and scientists composition is reminiscent of Leonardo s Last Supper but deeper o Giorgione Sleeping Venus Titan Venus of Urbino Both paintings further Leonardo s painting of Mona Lisa o Albrecht Durer Self Portrait Asserts his sense of the importance of the individual especially the individual of genius and talent such as he o Art in China and Japan Cheng Sixiao Ink Orchids Was done to protest the theft of Chinese soil by invaders Painted without soil around their roots showing an art flourishing even though what sustains it has been taken away Yin Hong Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks An example of the northern school Conservative Tradional in his approach Shen Zhou Poet on a Mountaintop Radicalizes traditional Chinese landscape For Southern Artist reality rested in the mind not the physical world The southern style ideally synthesizes the three ares of endeavor that any member of the cultural elite or literati the literary intelligentsia o Poetry o Calligraphy o Painting o The Mannerist Style in Europe Mannerism Highly individualistic and mannered or consciously artificial theis mannerist style was dedicated to invention Michelangelo Buonarroti The Last Judgement Mannerists painters represented space in unpredictable and ambiguous ways so that bodies sometimes seem to fall out of nowhere into the frame of the painting Tintoretto The Miracle of the Slave Drama of the painting is heightened by the descent of the vastly foreshortened St Mark who hurtles in form above to savethe slave from his executioner o Bronzino Venus Cupid Folly and Time The colors are often bright and clashing El Greco The Burial of Count Orgaz The Baroque Which is noted particularly for its theatricality and drama was in many respects a creation of the Papacy in Rome Carlo Maderno Nave and Fa ade in St Peters Square Francesco Borromini San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Gianlorenzo Bernini The Cornaro Family in a Theater Box Caravaggio The Calling of St Matthew Rembrandt van Rign Resurrection of Christ Annibale Carracci Landscape with Flight into Egypt Claude Lorrain A pastoral Landscape Jacob van Ruisdael View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen 12 04 2012 12 04 2012