Looking at Art Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Art

Light Perspective Movement Color Proportion Symbolism The Peasant Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder Looking @ Art

Light

Perspective

Movement

Color

Proportion

Symbolism

Light Perspective Color Form Proportion Symbolism Looking @ Art Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride Jan Van Eyck, 1434

Light

Perspective

Color

Form

Proportion

Symbolism

Renaissance Art Comparing Renaissance Art to Medieval Art

Art of Ancient Greece and Rome

Zeus or Poseidon c. 460-450 B.C.

Julius Caesar Caesar Augustus

Medieval Art

Characteristics of Medieval Art Disproportionate figures Little or no perspective All faces the same, unrealistic Two-dimensional, flat, and dull Religious themes 180 degree relief statues Storytelling, either about religion or warfare Artists as craftsmen, work for guilds

Disproportionate figures

Little or no perspective

All faces the same, unrealistic

Two-dimensional, flat, and dull

Religious themes

180 degree relief statues

Storytelling, either about religion or warfare

Artists as craftsmen, work for guilds

Madonna Enthroned Giovanni Cimabue 1280-90

Annunciation Simon Martini, 1333

Transition

"He converted the art of painting from Greek to Latin and brought in the modern era” First since the Greeks to understand the concept of space - 3D on a 2D surface Influenced western art and all the Renaissance artists Giotto

"He converted the art of painting from Greek to Latin and brought in the modern era”

First since the Greeks to understand the concept of space - 3D on a 2D surface

Influenced western art and all the Renaissance artists

Saint Francis and Saint Claire

The Presentation of the Virgin, 1305

Madonna Enthroned Giotto, 1311

Art of the Renaissance

Madonna and Child Fra Filippo Lippi, 1406-1469

Adoration of the Magi Sandro Botticelli

Dead Christ Andrea Mantegna, 1501

Raphael

School of Athens

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Madonna of the Rocks

Mona Lisa

Michelangelo

Pieta , 1498-99