Review your Renaissance artists, key concepts and characteristics!
E. Northern Renaissance
- Jan Van Eyck
- microscopic detail (oil paint)
- symbolism and mystery (Arnolfini Wedding & Ghent Altarpiece)
- layers of meaning
High and Late Italian Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci
- True Renaissance man (not only an artist, but engineer, botanist, anatomist, naturalist, inventor, etc.
- psychological intensity (Mona Lisa)
- soft and hazy atmosphere (sfumato, atmospheric perspective)
- balanced and symmetrical compositions, pyramidal (Last Supper, Madonna of the Rocks)
- Mystery and intrigue
- Raphael
- The true painter
- clarity and color (inspired by his teacher, Perugino)
- Popular for Holy Family compositions (Madonna of the Meadow)
- Master of perspective, chiaroscuro
- Michelangelo
- sculptor with divine power ("Il divino")
- monumental and colossal sculpture, HEROIC
- Marble master, works from single block (sculpture is "trapped" in block waiting to be released)
- Anticipatory tension, moment before the action (David, Moses)
- Worked extensively for Pope Julius II
- Painting: Classically inspired
- complicated arrangement of figures
- monumental, muscular, powerful
- Bramante
- Pope's architect
- Believed central plan was ideal building plan
- Circle as perfect form (Tempietto)
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