Medieval Art
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Unrealistic two-dimensional
style (religious theme).
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Stain Glass (two-dimensional)
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Renaissance Art
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Characteristics of Renaissance
Art
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Three Dimensional
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Realistic & Lifelike
“Sfumato” – shading that looks
smoky/hazy
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Holy Trinity,
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Masaccio
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
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Linear Perspective:
Vanishing point.
School of Athens,
Raphael
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
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Influenced by Greco-Roman culture; its forms
and its themes (ie. beauty of the human body)
Primavera,
Botticelli
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
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Sculpture in the Round (all sides)
Pieta,
Michelangelo
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Renaissance Architecture
very grand
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The Renaissance Moves North
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Moved to Northern Europe in 1450
Printing Press (1456)
■ More availability of books
■ people read and question the world around them
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Shakespeare
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The best known
Renaissance writer
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Between 1590 and
1613 he wrote 37
plays
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Dante
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The Divine Comedy
Story written in the
vernacular (Italian) which
tells the story of a man’s
journey through heaven and
hell.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales:
Series of stories depicting
the lives of people on a
pilgrimage
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Boccaccio
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Decameron
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Written in 1353, it is a
collection of novellas
(stories) that demonstrate life
of people in Renaissance
Erasmus
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In Praise of Folly
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Writes about corruption of
the Catholic Church
Machiavelli- The Prince
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Advised kings how to rule.
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A gift to Lorenzo Medici
for his birthday
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“The end justifies the
means.”
Thomas More
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Utopia
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a work of fiction, tells the story
of a land that is almost perfect in
every way and serves as an
example of what should be.