RENAISSANCE ART

HUMANISM

• Humanism is any system, mode of thought, or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT JEROME (1541)

• This famous painting is by Giorgio Vasari.
• Giorgio used oil to paint this, done in mannerism style.
• This particular style was used throughout the late Renaissance.
• St. Jerome was one of the four main doctors of the church. This painting shows when he retired to the desert for four years.

TEMPTATION OF SAINT JEROME

• This painting is showing him escaping the church and fighting his own battles instead of letting the church handle everything for him.
• In this painting the bodies look very muscular and you can tell where Giorgione was trying to perfect the human body.

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The Adoration in the Forest

• This painting was completed before 1459 by Carmelite friar, Filippo Lippi
• In this picture the Virgin Mary is looking over her newborn Christ.
• It was painted for one of the wealthiest men in Renaissance Florence, the banker Cosimo de Medici.

THE ADORATION IN THE FOREST

• In later times it had a turbulent history. Hitler ordered it to be hidden in WW2 and it became part of the story of a mutiny in the U.S. Army. The only known case in the whole Second World War of American officers refusing an order. It is now once again in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

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BATTLE OF SAN ROMANO

• This painting was by Paulo Uccello.
• At this time in the art world artist were focused on depiction and lighting, as was Paulo while he was painting this picture.
• They are significant as revealing the development of linear perspective in early Italian Renaissance painting.
• This is only one of the three paintings that showed the battle of San Romano. These paintings were heavily admired in the 15th century.

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PRIMAVERA (ALLEGORY OF SPRING)

• This is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli.
• Most people agree that the painting, depicting a group of mythological figures in a garden, is allegorical for the lush growth of Spring.

PRIMAVERA (ALLEGORY OF SPRING)

• The history of the painting is not certainly known, though it seems to have been commissioned by one of the Medici family.
• The goal of this painting was to depict light in ways to make the painting look real.

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The Last Judgment

• A fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo executed on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity. The souls of humans rise and descend to their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by prominent saints including Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, Lawrence, Bartholomew, Paul, Sebastian, John the Baptist, and others.
• It 4 years to finish and was done between 1536 and 1541.

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Ginevra de’ Benci

• A portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de’ Benci.
• The oil-on-wood portraitwas acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967.
• It is known that Leonardo painted a portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci in 1474, painted in Florence possibly to commemorate her marriage that year to Luigi di Bernardo Niccolini at the age of 16.

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