September 14
The Italian Renaissance
Christine de Pizan
1364 - 1430
Christine de Pizan. Christine with Justice.
Christine de Pizan. Christine presenting work to Queen Isabeu of Bavaria. 1410 - 1411.
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Christine de Pizan. Opening Page of the City of Ladies. 1405
http://www.bnf.fr/loc/bnf030.jpg
Marcia, Self-Portrait from a Mirror. From Boccaccio, Concerning Famous Women. 1402.
feudalism = system of political organization prevalent in Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries having as its basis, the relation of lord to vassal |
Limbourg Brothers. March in Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. 1412 - 16. |
As the Roman Empire crumbled, emperors granted land to nobles in exchange for their loyalty |
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peasants could no longer count on the Roman army to protect them, so they turned to the landowners |
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Many peasants remained free, but most became serfs who were laborers that were bound to the land |
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Knights were paid by the landowner to protect the manor |
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Bourgot
Probably Jean Le Noir, his daughter Bourgot. Psalter and Hours of Bonne de Luxembourg. Before 1349.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h3/h3_69.86.jpg
Medieval Embroidery
The Battle of Hastings. Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry. c. 1086.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
Banquet Scene. Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry. c. 1086.
Girls, Guerrilla. The Guerilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
Aelfyva and the Cleric. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry. c. 1086.
Opus Anglicanum = embroidered works made in English workshops during the 11th century
The Syon Cope. c. 1300.
Another image of the Syon Cope
Renaissance
= 14th century to 17th century |
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Northern Renaissance |
art in Netherlands,
Germany and Normandy |
1400 - 1550 |
Early Renaissance |
Italian art
in Tuscany |
1400 - 1500 |
HIgh Renaissance |
Italian art
in Rome, Florence and Venice |
1520 - 1580 |
Mannerism |
art in Florence,
Rome, Venice, Spain and France |
1520 - 1600 |
Map of Europe during the Early Renaissance
Significant
changes in the Renaissance world view: |
People begin
to challenge medieval religious zeal |
Increased
exploration of the world |
Medieval
feudal structure breaks down |
The artist's
social standing increases |
People consider
the Classic world the height of western civilization thus far |
Renascita = rebirth |
Humanism
= a cultural and intellectual movement during the Renaissance, following
the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
A philosophy or attitude concerned with the interests, achivements and
capabilities of human beings rather than with the abstract concepts
and problems of theology. |
Medieval
Pieta |
Renaissance
Pieta |
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Roettgen
Pieta. Early 14th century. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001. |
Michelangelo. Pietà. c. 1500. Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. |
Middle
Ages |
Renaissance |
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Ideal
life |
Monastic
escape from society |
Full
participation in rich and varied experience |
Focus
of philosophy |
The
hereafter |
The
here and now |
View
of humanity |
Man
is completely flawed |
Man
is always in trouble, but he is great |
Arts
glorified |
God |
Mankind |
Medieval
Adam & Eve |
Renaissance
Adam & Eve |
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Adam
& Eve Reproached by the Lord from the Doors of Bishop Bernward. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001. |
Jan van
Eyck. Adam and Eve details of the Ghent Altarpiece. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001. |
Most
Recognized Renaissance Artists: |
Leonardo
da Vinci |
Raphael |
Michelangelo |
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Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa.
c. 1503 - 1505. Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005. |
Raphael. Madonna
of the Meadow. 1505. Duane Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 6th ed. |
Michelangelo. David.
1501-4 Duane Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed. |
Sofonisba Anguissola
c. 1532 - 1625
Sofonisba Anguissola. Boy Bitten
by a Crayfish. 1559.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art: A Brief History.
Second edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Sofonisba Anguissola. Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola. Late 1550s.
virtuosa
= a talented, attractive and properly behaved woman. A woman endowed
with masculine abilities. |
Domenico Ghirlandaio. Giovanna
Tornabuoni nee Albizzi. 1488.
Fred
S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
Twelfth ed. Vol. 1. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2
vols.
Renaissance
ideal of beauty: |
Noblewoman |
Fair
skin |
Curly
hair |
Dark
eyes |
Perfectly
curved brows |
Rounded
flesh |
inscription
on Ghirlandaio's portrait of Giovanna: |
"O
art, if thou were able to depict the conduct of the soul, no lovelier
painting would exist on earth." |
Sofonisba Anguisola. Double
Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter. Date unknown.
Sterling, Susan Fisher. Women Artists: The
National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Tiny Folios, 1995.
Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-Portrait.
c. 1552.
Stokstad,
Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice
Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-portrait.
1561.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/italrenaissance/images/italian%20ren04wk8.jpg
Sofonisba Anguissola. The Chess
Game. 1555.
Getlein, Mark. Gilbert's Living With Art.
Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002.
linear perspective
= mathematic system for depicting the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional
surface invented in the Renaissance |
Raphael. School
of Athens. c. 1510-11.
Stokstad,
Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice
Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.
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