2. Introduction
Focus on history of art in Early Italian
Renaissance
It was a very remarkable period of time
It would lead into a period called High
Renaissance
Important in our visual literacy
3. City State
Spirit of
competition
Importance
of humans
6. Medici Family
The biggest accomplishments of the Medici
were in the sponsorship
of art and architecture, mainly early and High
Renaissance art and architecture.
7. Medici Family
The Medici were responsible for the majority
of Florentine art during their reign. Their
money was significant because during this
period, artists generally only made their
works when they received commissions in
advance.
8. 2. Paintings
Art based on heaven to being based on the
natural world
Inspired by humanism
Appeared 3D to the human eyes
9. Paolo Uccello
1397 – 1475
Italian painter
Notable for his pioneering work on visual
perspective in art
He used perspective
His style is best described as idiosyncratic
13. Fra Angelico
2.2
c. 1395 – February 18, 1455
Early Italian Renaissance painter
"Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the
Angelic' “
Works within the framework of the Early
Renaissance style embody a serene religious
attitude and reflect a strong Classical
influence.
17. Masaccio
2.3
Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 –
autumn 1428)
The first great painter of
the Quattrocento period of the Italian
Renaissance
He was one of the first to use linear
perspective in his painting, employing
techniques such as vanishing point in art for
the first time
22. Fra Filippo Lippi
2.4
1406-1469
Pupil of Masaccio
Recorded as a painter in 1430
Fra Filippo Lippi's later painting style is
linear, lyrical, and decorative, a product
of his own fantastic imagination.
Fra Filippo Lippi was more interested in
nature and landscape depiction
26. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
c 1445-1510
Italian Painter
Used oil to make paintings of figures
Figures of his work tended to be of sculptural
roundness and strength
Used mythological figures in his art work
28. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
Adoration of the Magi is a painting by
the Italian Renaissance master Sandro
Botticelli, dating from 1475 or 1476. It is
housed in the Uffizi of Florence.
32. Pietro Perugino
2.6
1445-1524
Early Renaissance Painter of the Umbrian
school
His style is characterized by dazzling colors,
spatial clarity of his compositions and a
harmonious union between figure and
landscape.
36. Domenico Ghirlandaio
1480
2.7
(1449-94)
Ghirlandaio had always used a slightly
anachronistic approach, placing portraits of
contemporaries alongside religious figures.
His settings are pastiches of classicizing
fictions and real places.
41. 2.8 Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca ( 1415– 1492) was a
painter of the Early Renaissance
Appreciated for his art.
His painting was characterized by its
serene humanism, its use of geometric forms
and perspective.
46. Andrea Mantegna
2.9
born 1431-died 1506
Northern Early Italian Renaissancepainter
and engraver best known for painting heroic
figures depicted in sharpperspective through
the use of dramaticforeshortening.
Andrea Mantegna often placed the subject of
his work high up in the picture plane to give
the illusion that the viewer is looking up from
down below.
49. 3. Architecture
Mathematics gave an insight into Classical
methods of proportion and structure
Defined by flat surfaces and strong lines
Important part symmetry
Palazzi
50. Filippo Brunelleschi
2.10
(Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]; 1377 – April
15, 1446)
One of the foremost architects and engineers
of the Italian Renaissance.
He is perhaps most famous for his discovery
of perspective
55. Leon Battista Alberti
2.11
(February 14, 1404 – April 20, 1472)
Italian author,
artist, architect, poet,priest, linguist, philosop
her, cryptographer and general Renaissance
humanist polymath.
He is often characterized as an "architect“.
59. 4.Sculpture
Early Renaissance sculptors took inspiration
directly from Classical Roman and Greek
sculptor.
They imbued their free-standing figures with
a range of emotions and filled them with
energy and thought.
60. Lorenzo Ghiberti
2.12
Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian: [loˈrɛntso giˈbɛrti])
(1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di
Bartolo, was anFlorentine
Italian sculptor of the Early Renaissance
Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he
established an important workshop for
sculpture in metal.
65. Donatello
2.13
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 –
December 13, 1466), better known
as Donatello,
An early Renaissance Italian sculptor
Known for his work in bas-relief
69. Andrea del Verrocchio
2.14
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian
pronunciation: [anˈdrɛa del verˈrɔkkjo]
Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who
worked at the court of Lorenzo de'
Medici in Florence in the early renaissance.
His greatest importance was as a sculptor