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a competition held in the city of Florence
in 1401 for the design of the doors for the city’s
new baptistery. who was winner
lorenzo ghiberti
ghierti’s design
had figures harkening back to those
of classical Greece. Ghiberti’s panel design depicts
the sacrifice of Isaac, in which Isaac appears as a
classical Greek figure.
gates of paradise
door panels for cathedral entrance, made by ghiberti
fillipo brunelleschi
After losing the
competition, he concentrated on architecture and
won a competition to complete the dome of the cathedral
in Florence, which had remained unfinished
for many years because architects had not been able
to construct the huge vault that was required to
span the open space. Brunelleschi achieved this major
engineering feat with the help of a double-shelled
dome design that has been imitated by many later
architects.
Brunelleschi is also credited with developing
linear (single vanishing point) perspective.
Masaccio (1401-28), a Renaissance painter, is
given credit for putting Brunelleschi’s theory into
practice, as he used both __ and __ in his frescoes
linear and aerial perspective
donatello best known for? most famous work?
founder of modern sculpture.
bronze statue of david
botticelli
his best-known painting, The
Birth of Venus ( c. 1482), established an image of female
beauty that has lasted through the centuries.
His long-necked Venus with her languid pose and
flowing hair was one of the first paintings of a fulllength
nude female since antiquity.
leondaro’s key innovation
sfumato – from the Italian word [umo,
meaning smoke, is the use of mellowed colors and a
blurred outline. Sfumato allows forms to blend subtly
into one another without perceptible transitions.
leondaro da vinci’s 2 most famous paintings
mona lisa, the last supper
high renaissacne - 2 famous “renaissance men”
leonardo da vinci and michelangelo
Michelangelo di Buonarotti,
competition w/ flawed marble. created llarger than life statue of david; meant to be viewed from far below (placed on the high facade of florence cathedral”. spent 4 years in frescoe of sistine chapel
sanzio vs michelangelo
Raphael was not a loner, but employed numerous
assistants to help him cover the Pope’s official
chambers with large, sumptuous frescoes,
2 of sanzio’s masterworks
school of athens, sistine madonna
school of athens
homage to the
great Greek philosophers and scientists.
sistine madonnna
created an image of the Virgin Mary
that has endured in religious paintings throughout
the centuries.
Giorgione
(14 77 /78-1510) is credited with making innovations
in the subject matter
as he painted
scenes not taken from the Bible or from classical or
allegorical stories.
Prior to Giorgione’s painting The
Tempest (c. 1508), artists had generally
begun with
the figures that were to be the subject matter of the
painting and then added the background
georgione’s most famous work
the tempest – landscape became the subject. the figures depicted are of lesser importance
than the storm that threatens them
prolific venetian painters
georgione, tintoretto, titian vecelli
how was Titian was an innovative
portraitist.
He used various elements of setting,
such as a column or a curtain, as the backdrop for
his portraits instead of an atmospheric neutral
background, as had been the custom
tintoretto is often linked with an artistic style called
mannerism
Mannerist works are characterized
by
the distortion of certain elements such as perspective
or scale and are also recognizable by their
use of acidic colors and the twisted positioning of
their subjects
Although Tintoretto used some Mannerist
pictorial techniques,
his color schemes differed
from those of the Mannerists.