From the age of Renaissance to
Realism
Introduction
• Written histories of European art often begin with the art of theancient
middle east and the Ancient Aegean civilizations, dating from the 3rd
millennium B.C parallel with these significant cultures, art of one from
another existed all over Europe, whenever there were people, leaving
signs such as pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear
only with the art of ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by rome and
carried with the empire, across much of Europe north Africa and the
middle east.
The Renaissance Art
• The origins of renaissance art can be traced to Italy in the late 13th and
early 14th centuries. During this so-called ‘proto-renaissance’
The Renaissance Art
The Renaissance Art
• Renaissance art painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature
produced during the 14th, 15th and, 16th centuries in Europe under the
combined influencesof an increased awareness of nature, a revival of
classical learning and a more individualistic view of man.
• The Florentine painter Giotto (1267-1337), the most famous artist of the
proto-renaissance, made enomerous advancesin the techinique of
representing the human body realistically.
Florentine painter Giotto
• Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni chapel, in Padua,
also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305.
The fresco cycle depicts the life of the virgin and the life of christ. It is
regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.
• hat Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and was chosen by the Commune of
Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence
Cathedral are among the few certainties about his life.
Arena chapel and
Scrovegni chapel
Some art of Florentine.
High Renaissance Art (1490-1527)
By the end of 15th century rome have displaced the principal center of
renaissance art, reaching a high point under the powerful and ambitious Pope
lLeo X (a son of Lorenzo de’ Medici). Three great masters- Leonardo da Vinci,
michaelangelo and Raphael- dominated the period known as the high
renaissance, which lasted roughly form the early 1490s until the sack of rome
by the troops of the holy rroman emperor Charles V of spain in 1527.
Leonardo (1452-1519)
The last supper
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564
• Drew on the human body for inspiration and created work on a vast scale.
He was the dominant sculptor of the high renaissance.
• He consider himself a sculptor first and foremost
• He achieve greatness as a painter as well.
Michaelangelo
Renaissance in art practice
• A reverent revival of classical greek\roman art dorm and style
• A faith in the nobility of man (HUMANISM)
• The mastery of illusionistic painting techniques maximizing ‘depth’ in a
picture, including linear perspective foreshortening and later quadratura
• The naturalistic realism of its faces and figures enhanced by oil painting
techniques like sfumato.
Expasion and decline
• Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries the spirits of the renaissance
spreads throughout Italy and into france, noethern Europe and spain, in
venice artists such as Giorgione and titan further developeda method of
painting in oil directly in canvas.
• Oil painting during the renaissance can be traced back even further,
however to the Flemish painter Jan van eyck who has painted a masterful
altarpiece in the cathedral at ghent.
Mannerism art
• Derive from the Italian word maniera meaning style or stylishness refers
to a stle of a painting, sculpture or architecture that emerged in rome and
Florence between 1510 and 1520.
• Mannerism act as a bridge between the idealized style of renaissance art
and the dramatic theatrialy of the baroque.
Characteristics of mannerism art
• It was known for its anti-classical or anti-renaissance style, which then
developed into high mannerism a more intricate, inward-looking and
intellectual style designed to appeal to more sophisticated patrons.
