Renaissance Research Images, Facts, Historical Reference Points

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1 Renaissance Research Images, Facts, Historical Reference Points Tom, Emily, Taylor Rape of the Sabine Women, Giambologna Hercules and the Centaur Nessus, Giambologna Pieta, Michelangelo David, Michelangelo The bodies in Renaissance sculpture are typically highly realistic, and take on drooping, fluid, and dynamic poses. Often the figures had highly idealized bodies of the time. The men were hypermuscular and the women especially voluptuous. This beautiful, sad, and exaggerated type of depiction is also found in Renaissance architecture and art. Madonna of the Goldfinch, Raphael Assumption of the Virgin, Titian Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

2 Renaissance ideals were often centered around Humanist values. Humanists believed that the individual was full of great potential, and believed that individual achievement reached its peak during Roman and Greek antiquity. This set of beliefs pushed Renaissance artists and architects to replicate the talents of that time period, and to cherish the accomplishments of each individual craftsman, artisan, etc. Humanist ideals were reflected in Renaissance art through the use of realism. Artists began to successful portray the human form and multipoint perspectives, thus perpetuating the belief that the individual could accomplish great artistic and intellectual feats. The entire age of the Renaissance was based upon new discoveries in all areas of study, which further informed the idea that the human mind was highly capable of many things. This new influx of knowledge made the importance of religion diminish, which also made the individual the center of the Renaissance world, rather than God.

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4 Notes: 3 Guiding Principles : 1.) Principle of symmetry (urged by all architectural writers in the Renaissance) - Order and Clarity - Central entrance, often with a vestibule leading straight to a central courtyard with leading identical arrays of rooms on either side. 2.) Most public rooms were the most immediately accessible from the main entrance, and the more private spaces were in the back. 3.) Diving large houses or Palazzi into apartments, each a group of contiguous rooms that constituted the private realm of a single person. This principle has remained a historically significant rationale for the floorplans of the interiors. -Most embellished spaces were one level above the street on the panio nobile. -Renaissance- rebirth or revival -Michelangelo was one of the greatest masters of high Renaissance. -Drew on the human body for inspiration and created works on vast scales. -Renaissance art sought to capture the experience of the individual and the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Enjoyment in nature and natural beauty. Early Renaissance: Artists learned by trying to emulate classical artists focusing on symmetry and creating the perfect form. High renaissance: A rising interest in perspective and space gave the art even more realism. New Techniques and Styles: -Perspective -Balance and Proportion -Use of Light and Dark -Sfumato -Foreshortening Astronomy- Made great leaps during this time. -Galileo was one of the greatest scientists in history. Improved the telescope, made new discoveries. -Nicolaus Copernicus- Discovered that the Sun was the center of the universe.

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7 Architecture often included arches, domes, and tunnel vault Fashion - Noble men wore fancy overcoats, robes, skirts, hats called berets, and hose, or long socks. -Noble women wore long outer dresses and skirts, that were just like the men s but longer. Music - instruments - lizard, bagpipe, crumhorn, harp, lute, violin,and zink Inventions - clock, microscope, telescope, watch, gunpowder, spectacles There were many advancements in astronomy during the renaissance. Some famous astronomers of the time were, Kepler, Tycho, Copernicus, and Galileo. There was much debate about whether the sun or Earth was at the center of the universe. Galileo was the one who discovered, with his telescope, that the sun is at the center.

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