The presentation talks about Art during the Renaissance Period. It includes background of Art during this time, the famous artists and some of their works.
This is made for my Humanities Class.
3. Renaissance
• Is the period immediately following the
Middle Ages in Europe.
• was used to describe an entire period of
rebirth, occurring between the 14th and
17th centuries
• proved to be a time of great
transformation of the artist as they came to
occupy a different place in society.
4. Characteristics of Art during the
Renaissance Period
• Incorporating a greater sense of light and
color through new mediums.
• Creating a sense of space was also a
major innovation of the time, as was
perspective, a clever device that causes
your eye to see in three-dimension
5. • Art during the Renaissance was mostly
made for commissions or religious
reasons.
• Art that showed joy in human beauty and
life's pleasures.
• Renaissance art is more lifelike than the
art of the Middle Ages
6. • Renaissance artists studied
perspective, or the differences in the way
things look when they are close to
something or far away.
• The Renaissance artists painted in a way
that showed these differences.
• As a result, their paintings seem to have
depth.
7. • Renaissance art sought to capture the
experience of the individual and the
beauty and mystery of the natural world.
8. Prominent Artists during the
Renaissance Period
1. Leonardo da Vinci
- he was an artist and a scientist at a time
when both art and science, he has come
to characterize the ultimate "Renaissance
Man."
- His most famous works are the Mona
Lisa and the Last Supper.
9. 2. Michelangelo Bounarotti
- A skilled painter who spent many years
completing the frescoes that adorn the
Sistine Chapel.
-Michelangelo had trained as a sculptor and
created two of the world's greatest
statues--the enormous David and the
emotional Pieta.
10. 3. Raphael
- He is credited with revolutionizing portrait
painting because of the style he used in
the portrait of Julius II.
- In his painting The School of Athens, he
reflected the classical influence upon
Renaissance art
12. Characteristics of Art during 17th Century
• Heralded by the Museum’s early Baroque
paintings from Italy and Spain.
• throughout Italy, Baroque artists created work
that was realistic and yet believably
illusionistic, personal, and intensely dramatic.
• Dutch artists depicted their world in direct
portraits, realistic still
lives, landscapes, marine scapes, and genre
paintings showing scenes of everyday life.
13. Baroque Art
• characterized by great drama, rich, deep
color, and intense light and dark shadows.
• was meant to evoke emotion and passion
instead of the calm rationality that had
been prized during the Renaissance.
14. Prominent Artists during the 17th
Century
1. Peter Paul Rubens
- was arguably one of the best painters of
the 17th century Baroque style, and
certainly the most famous Northern
European painter of his day.
- His works: The Fall of Phaeton, St.
George and the Dragon etc.
15. 2. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
- used realism to convey a new dimension of
the subjects that he painted
- portrayed the things and life that he knew, full
of turbulence, and full of life.
- was able to use light in a "divine" matter.
- One of his works is The Calling of St.
Matthew .
16. 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
- the successor and student of Michelangelo in both
sculpture and painting.
- fused together architecture and sculpture to create
a sense of spirituality and optical delight.
- He also fused together Christian and pagan
iconography to create a feeling of Christianity
overcoming the pagan religions of the ancients.
- One of his works is The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.
18. Characteristic of Art during the 18th
Century
• often called a time of Enlightenment.
• In many respects the art of the 18th
century is the art of France.
• Though France led the way in
fashion, styles , manners, language, and
much of art, Italy, Germany, and England
all produced artists of originality and
importance.
19. • The 17th century examined physical
reality, while the 18th century examined the
mind.
• Fantasies, reveries, ideas, and ideals of all
kinds are imbedded in the diverse images of
this period.
• Guided by the intellect, art throughout most of
the century is characterised by an artifice that
marks it and its creators as
urbane, sophisticated, and educated.
20. Rococo Art
• also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an
18th-century artistic movement and style
• The term Rococo was derived from the
French word, rocaille, meaning rock and shell
garden ornamentation.
• The style appealed to the senses rather than
intellect, stressing beauty over depth.
21. Rococo Art
• The movement portrayed the life of the
aristocracy, preferring themes of romance,
mythology, fantasy, every day life to
historical or religious subject matter.
• Rococo was a light, ornamental, and
elaborate style of art.
22. Neoclassical Art
• is characterized by its sense of
order, logic, clarity, and to an
extent, realism.
• Neoclassicism was a reaction in the
direction of order and restraint
• focused on portraying political truths of
that time in a dramatic way while rococo
art was more decorative and light.
23. Prominent Artist during the 18th
Century
1. Jacques Louis David
- was a highly influential French painter in
the Neoclassical style, considered to be
the prominent painter of the era.
- His works include: The Death of
Socrates, Oath of the Horatii etc.
25. Characteristic of Art during the 19th
Century
• The nineteenth century was a rather busy
time in the world.
• Invention and discovery swelled as the
byproducts of the previous century’s age of
enlightenment, and resulted in the
urbanization that took place.
• Three of the major art movements of this
period were
Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and
Impressionism.
26. Neoclasscism
• reflect the rational way of thinking that was a
significant part of the Enlightenment of
18thcentury Europe.
• This intellectual movement emphasized
reason and drew from classical Greek and
Roman style and content.
• Art that is considered part of the
Neoclassicism movement can be identified by
its idealized forms and stable composition.
27. Romanticism
• was based on emotion rather than
rationale, and placed an emphasis on the
individual rather than on society.
• These works are characterized by a brighter
use of color and expressive brushstroke, and
were meant to evoke emotion.
• Exotic subjects from foreign lands were also
more prevalent in Romantic art.
28. Impressionism
• this type of painting was characterized by
loose, quick brush strokes.
• A focus on one’s immediate impression of
a scene.
29. Prominent Artists during the 19th
Century Art
1. Adolphe-William Bouguereau
- He made a careful study of form and
technique, steeped himself in classical
sculpture and painting and worked
deliberately and industriously.
- He portrays children and domestic scenes
with tenderness, technical skill and rich
color.
- His works include: Birth of Venus, Childhood
Idyll etc.
30. 2. Martin Johnson Heade
- was one of the most inventive, versatile, and
prolific -- his active career spanned almost seventy
years.
- he painted a series of complex compositions that
combine hummingbirds and lush tropical
flowers, particularly orchids, in landscape settings
he had studied on his travels.
- His works include: Humming Birds, Ruby Rose
etc.
33. The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa
1511. It is traditionally thought to illustrate the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in
which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels
depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed.
34. Boy with a Basket of Fruit
c.1593, is a painting generally ascribed to Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio, currently in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Caravaggio is being realistic, in capturing only what was in the fruit basket; he idealizes neither their
ripeness nor their arrangement—yet almost miraculously, we are still drawn in to look at it; for the viewer it
is very much a beautiful subject.
35. The Death of Socrates
1787 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David. It represents the scene of the
death of Greek philosopher Socrates, condemned to die by drinking hemlock, for the
expression of his ideas against those of Athens' and corrupting the minds of the youth.
This painting is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
37. Cristo Della Minerva
also known as Christ the
Redeemer or Christ Carrying
the Cross, is a marble sculpture
by the Italian High
Renaissance master Michelang
elo Buonarroti, finished in 1521.
38. The Ecstasy of St.
Theresa
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
is the central sculptural
group in white marble set in
an elevated aedicule in the
Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria
della Vittoria, Rome.
Started: 1647
Completed: 1652
Location: Santa Maria della
Vittoria
Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Media: White marble
Period: Baroque
39. The Moses
The Moses
(c. 1513–1515) is
a sculpture by the
Michelangelo
Buonarroti, housed in the
church of San Pietro in
Vincoli in Rome.
Commissioned in 1505
by Pope Julius II for
his tomb, it depicts
the Biblical figure Moses
with horns on his
head, based on a
description in
the Vulgate, the Latin
translation of the Bible
used at that time.
41. 17th-19th Century Architecture
• -Architects were slight of soul
• -300 years of homogeneous architecture
• -During the 17th Century buildings were monolithic
• -18th and 19th Centuries building were multilithic
• -The age of Revolutions: American, French, and Industrial
• -Social Order shifted to urban society
• -Mass Production
• -Age of Revision for Architecture
• -No unifying authority or standards
• -Revival modes, only signature style - pastiche of the past
• -Recycled a bewildering variety of styles
• -Chaotic, besot with traditions
• -Science and Social innovations flourished
42. Syon Park, Middlesex, UK, 1762-1769 - (Robert Adam)
Syon Park. The crowning glory of Syon Park's gardens is the Great Conservatory. The 3rd Duke of
Northumberland commissioned Charles Fowler to build a new conservatory in 1826, the first of its kind to be built
out of gunmetal, Bath stone and glass. It was originally designed to act as a show house for the Duke's exotic
plants and inspired Joseph Paxton in his designs for the Crystal Palace.
Robert Adam (1728-1792) Scottish designer Increased the true knowledge of Roman Architecture. He
refused to be a slave to the dictates of stylebooks. ―A Latitude in this respect is often productive of great
novelty, variety, and beauty.‖
43. Royal Pavilion, Brighton, Sussex, England, 1815-1821 -(John Nash)
The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England. It was built in three
campaigns, beginning in 1787, as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, from 1811 Prince
Regent. It is often referred to as the Brighton Pavilion. It is built in the Indo-Saracenic style prevalent in
India for most of the 19th century, with the most extravagant chinoiserie interiors ever executed in the
British Isles.
44. Casa Mila, Barcelona, 1905-1910 -(Antoni Gaudí)
better known as La Pedrera, is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905–1910, being
considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade) in the Eixample
district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and
wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster
ceilings.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his
highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum
opus, the Sagrada Família.
45. Sources
• renaissance
• http://www.students.sbc.edu/kitchin04/artandexpression/renaissance%20art.html
• http://www.mrdowling.com/704-art.html
• http://www.history.com/topics/renaissance-art
• http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/artists.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/2838/artgal.htm
• 17th century art
• http://www.nortonsimon.org/european-art-17th-18th-centuries/
• http://tours.daytonartinstitute.org/accessart/connect.cfm?TN=dw09
• artists:
• http://voices.yahoo.com/17th-century-artists-borromini-bernini-caravaggio-10474.html
• http://emptyeasel.com/2007/05/01/peter-paul-rubens-baroque-painter-of-the-north/
• 18th century art
• http://myweb.rollins.edu/aboguslawski/Ruspaint/18intro.html
• (rococo, neoclassical movements)
• http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/gai/ID/464
• 19th century art
• http://wamtac.wordpress.com/art-history/19th-century-art/
• artists: http://digitalconsciousness.com/renowned/19c.phtml
Editor's Notes
As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring
Even in his religious works, deities and saints were represented by "low-life's," commoners going about their daily lives. In these portrayals of seemingly common people a spiritual element is still captured. Caravaggio was able to do this because of his study of Renaissance and classical art from Rome.
This was especially seen in the symbolic portrayal of this theme by hanging a cross above a golden orb.
the language, manners, customs, and styles of France increasingly shaped those of the rest of Europe.French artists set the styles that the rest of Europe followed.
identified by elegant and detailed ornamentation and the use of curved, asymmetrical forms. Other elements of the style included graceful movement, playful use of line, and delicate coloring. Dominated by feminine taste and influence, the lively colors and playful subject matter made it suitable for interior decoration. The Rococo style was also used in portraiture and furniture and tapestry design.
It saw the rise of the British Imperial Empire; the newly formed United States was just one of the British settlements that began developing in this century, with many others springing up on other continents.