High Renaissance 1480-1527

Ciao Florence! The move to Rome

•Lorenzo de Medici passed away

•Religious zealot Savonarola, a monk, declared art extravagant

•Artists were “wooed” away by other areas by promises of wealth and fame

Characteristics

• Trained in or influenced by Florentine school• With all the discoveries and innovations of the

Early Renaissance, there is no longer a need to look toward Greco-Roman works as the defining base for art

• Several great talents in one small area• Rome is new base: Pope’s summoned artists in

order to create great works to surpass prior Pope’s commissions

The Ninja Turtles

• Michaelangelo

• Leonardo

• Raphael

Michaelangelo Buonnarotti

• Born in Caprese• March 6, 1475• 1488, after changing father’s hesitation,

apprenticed to Ghirlandaio for 3 years• Left early and attended a program set up by

Lorenzo de Midici• Studied anatomy via the hospital= illegal to

do so on one’s own

Characteristics of work

• The Pieta used a pyramidal composition

• Neo-platonism: works of art embedded in the stones, artist retrieved them

The Pieta

Sistine Chapel

• Commissioned by Pope Julius

• 5,000 square feet of frescoes

• Book of Genesis

• 300 figures

• 4 years to paint july 1508 to oct 1512

Leonardo da Vinci

• 1452-1519

• Born in Vinci

• He differed from Michaelangelo…did not believe in neoplatonism, rather, believed in science as guiding hand to art

• Created designs for a flying machine

Characteristics of work

• Hair is “angelic” and wispy

• Use of “sfumato”a transition of form that is barely noticeable=achieved with similar color tones

Scientist

Mona Lisa

The Last Supper

Raphaello Sanzio aka Raphael

• Born in 1483 in Urbino Italy• Died April 6, 1520 in Rome• Apprenticed to Perugino at age 17

• Characteristics of work: flowing, easy composition, clarity of form, and neoplatonic representations http://www.slideshare.net/mjarry/neoplatonism

La Belle Jardinère

1507Oil on panel

The small Cowper

Madonnac. 1505Oil on wood

The Sistine Madonna

c. 1512-14Oil on canvas

considered one of the greatest Madonna

portraits

Madonna dell

Granducac. 1505Oil on wood

Resources

• http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/high_ren.htm

• http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/michelangelo.html

• http://arthistory.about.com/od/famous_paintings/a/sischap_ceiling.htm