The document summarizes aspects of life during the Renaissance period in Europe. It describes how the Black Plague devastated the population in the 1300s and weakened the authority of the Catholic Church. Art from this period featured unrealistic human figures with an emphasis on religious subjects as a response to the plague and turmoil. Notable Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and others emerged and pioneered new styles that reflected a renewed interest in classical antiquity.

1. Renaissance Art

2. Life During the Black Plague
IDEAS – life is bad,
humans worse, God is
great.
MUSIC – POLYPHONY-
single melody without
any harmonic support
or accompaniment.
Church music.
EVENTS – plague,
weakening of Church
authority.
ART –unrealistic human
figures-religious subject
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZy6XilXDZQ

3. IDEA
Man is conceived of blood made
rotten by the heat of lust; and in
the end worms, like mourners,
stand about his corpse.
In life he produced lice and
tapeworms; in death he will
produce worms and flies. In life
he produced dung and vomit; in
death he produces rottenness
and stench.
In life he fattened one man; in
death he fattens a multitude of
worms.
Pope Innocent III, On
the Misery of the Human
Condition, c. 1200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWTTs8Q
VRc&feature=related

4. Life is bad, humans worse,
God is great
In other
words…
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

5. MUSIC
MUSIC – POLYPHONY- single
melody without any harmonic
support or accompaniment. Church
music.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_MbDqc3x97k
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=e4q6eaLn2mY
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ZGO-
AFCZVWY&feature=fvsr
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-
tsG6qbgR94&feature=rela
ted

6. EVENT
DARK AGES
Church
King
Nobles
Knights
Peasants/ Serfs
RENAISSANCE
King
Church
Nobles
Peasants/Merchants/Artisans

7. Medieval Art
• Flat perspective
• Religious themes
• Unrealistic images
– No bones
– Dead eyes
– No emotion
– halos
Madonna and Child, ca. 1326
Simone Martini

8. Medieval Art
Bonaventura
Berlinghieri
Panel from
the Saint Francis
Altarpiece
San Francesco, Pescia,
Italy
1235
tempera on wood
approximately 5 ft. x 3
ft. 6 in.

9. Pietro Cavallini
Seated Apostles from
the Last Judgment
Santa Cecelia in
Trastevere, Rome Italy
ca. 1291
Medieval Art

10. Giotto di Bondone
Lamentation
from the Interior
of the Arena Chapel
Padua, Italy
1305-1306
fresco
Medieval Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW8qsL1n
DPM&feature=fvsr

11. Medieval Art
Duccio di Buoninsegna
The Temptation of Christ on the
Mountain,
1308-1311
tempera on poplar panel
17 in. x 18 1/8 in

12. Simone Martini
and Lippo Memmi
Annunciation
1333
tempera and gold leaf
on wood
10 ft.1 in. x 8 ft. 8 3/4
in.
Medieval Art

13. 1/3 OF THE
POPULATION OF
EUROPE DEAD
An urban phenomenon, but
also particularly
devastating to monks &
nuns
Black Plague
1350s

14. The Great Schism(Split)
RESULT=General weakening of the
authority of the Church in civil affairs
CAUSE=East/West
churches split
CAUSE=Western
church, multiple
Popes simultaneously

15. EVENT
DARK AGES
Church
King
Nobles
Knights
Peasants/ Serfs
RENAISSANCE
King
Church
Nobles
Peasants/
Merchants/Artisans

16. Sandro Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1470
panel
43 3/4 in. x 52 3/4 in.

17. Sandro Botticelli
Portrait of a Youth
early 1480s
tempera on panel
16 x 12 in.

18. Piero della Francesca
Finding of the True Cross, Proving of the True Cross
San Francesco, Arezzo, Italy
ca. 1455
fresco
11 ft. 8 3/8 in. x 6 ft. 4 in.

19. Renaissance= Rebirth
A period from the early
1300’s to roughly 1600 when
there was a renewed interest
in history literature and art.
Rebirth of the classic period
of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4E5wD
CK2Q&feature=related

20. Ancient Greece
Aristotle
"The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the
living differ from the dead."
-Socrates
“The unexamined life is not
worth living”
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=MIcU0JSJS24
@1:50 min.
Plato
"Music gives a soul to the
universe, wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination and
life to everything."

21. Da Vinci quotes
Where the spirit does not
work with the hand there
is no art
“I have been impressed
with the urgency of doing.
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.
Being willing is not
enough; we must do.”

22. Humanism
Humanism was an ideal that focused on
the world of mankind as much as a
concern for the hereafter.

24. Leonardo da Vinci
Virgin of the Rocks
ca. 1485
oil on wood
6 ft. 3 in. x 3 ft. 7 in.

25. Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy
ca. 1495-98
fresco (oil and tempera on plaster)
29 ft. 10 in. x 13 ft. 9 in.

26. Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa (La
Giaconda)
ca. 1503-1505
oil on wood
2 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 9 in

27. Renaissance man
• Someone who excels at
both the arts and
sciences.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=0CRX_mqpzdU&f
eature=mh_lolz&list=PL92
081F405E508274
• Who is a modern
Renaissance Man?
– Example: Walt Disney
– Ben Franklin ( not
modern)
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

28. Michelangelo
Buonarroti
David
1501-1504
marble
14 ft. 3 in. high

29. Pietà
1499
Marble, height 174 cm, width at the
base 195 cm
Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican

30. St. Ignatius Loyola
1548 - Prayer for Generosity
"Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou
deserve: To give and not to count the cost; To
fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and
not to seek for rest; To labor and not to ask for
any reward Save that of knowing that we do
Thy will.

31. Sistine Chapel (view
facing west)
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
built 1473

32. Sistine Chapel (view
facing east)
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
built 1473

33. Cleaning of, Sistine
Chapel Ceiling
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
1977-1989

34. Cleaning of, Sistine
Chapel Ceiling
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
1977-1989

35. Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Last Judgment
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
1537-41
fresco

36. Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Last Judgment
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
1537-41
fresco

37. Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Last Judgment
Vatican City, Rome,
Italy
1537-41
fresco

38. Raphael
Philosophy (School of Athens)
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy
1509-11
fresco
approximately
19 x 27 ft.

40. Raphael
Marriage of the Virgin
Chapel of Saint Joseph
in Città di Castello
near Florence, Italy
1504
oil on wood
5 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. 10 1/2
in.

41. Raphael
Galatea
Sala di Galatea, Villa
Farnesina
Rome, Italy
1513
fresco
9 ft. 8 in. x 7 ft. 5 in.

42. Raphael
Baldassare Castiglione
ca. 1514
oil on wood
transferred to canvas
2 ft. 6 1/4 in. x 2 ft. 2
1/2 in.

43. Giovanni Bellini and
Titian
The Feast of the Gods
1529
oil on canvas
5 ft. 7 in. x 6 ft. 2 in.

44. Sofonisba Anguissola
Portrait of the Artist’s
Sisters and Brother
ca. 1555

45. Albert Durer
“German Leonardo”
Known for engravings

46. Jan and Hubert van Eyck
Flemish
townspeople

47. Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish
Blended classical with realism

48. Peter Bruegel
Flemish
Peasant life