Renaissance Art
Dark period
-The 14th century was a time of great crisis.
-The
plague, the Hundred Years war, and the turmoil in the Catholic Church all shook
people’s faith in government, religion, and their fellow man.
-Causing
a cultural rebirth, a renaissance.
-They
advancing in Humanistic education, based on rhetoric, ethics and the liberal
arts.
-These
new cultural movements gave inspiration to artists.
-Perspective. To add
three-dimensional depth and space to their work.
-Linear perspective: Instead of every object in the picture
being the same size, objects that were further away would be smaller, while
those closer to you would be larger.
Example for Linear
perspective
-Horizon
line: Horizon line refers to the
point in the distance where objects become so infinitely small, that they have
shrunken to the size of a line.
Example for Horizon line
- Shadows and light. Artists were interested in playing
with the way light hits objects and create shadows.
Example for Shadow and light
- Emotion. Renaissance
artists wanted the viewer to feel something while looking at their work, to
have an emotional experience from it.
-Realism and naturalism. In addition to perspective, artists
sought to make objects, especially people, look more realistic.
Example for Realism andnaturalism
Madonna del Cardellino
-By Raphael,
1506.
-
She has a real form, real limbs, a real expression on her face.
- Raphael utilized perspective to give
the painting depth.
Madonna del Cardellino
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