Week 2 – Day 1

Lesson in Arts
9 MAPEH 9
BY: MR. RANDELLE C. DELOS SANTOS
Renaissance
Art and
Baroque Art
RENAISSANCE
ART
How did Renaissance art start?
• The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy in the fourteenth century CE
as a literary movement.
• Renaissance is a French word that means “rebirth”.
• The teachings and values of the ancient Greeks and Romans were
eventually adapted to the visual arts.
• Artists during this period combined Christian iconography (these are
images or symbols that are usually associated as a subject for
religious event with Greek and Roman symbolism and imagery in
their art.)
How did Renaissance art start?
• As with the Medieval period, the Catholic Church during the
Renaissance is one of the most powerful and wealthiest
institutions in Europe, including Italy because catholic churches
before are in charge of governing the whole country.
• It is their role to guide people’s religious life.
• This period also produced many of the most recognizable
religious artworks in Catholic tradition that we see during these
days.
 What are the characteristics of renaissance art?
• Classicism. Pose and compositions of the artworks made
by the ancient Greek and Roman were replicated by
Renaissance artists.
• An example is the contrapposto of the greek statues.
Contrapposto means “counter pose” in italian.
• It is the positioning of a human figure where the weight is
place on one foot while the shoulders and arms twist from
the hips and legs which gives an impression of movement.
 What are the characteristics of renaissance art?
• Humanism. A philosophy that believes “true human
potential is achieved through knowledge.”
• This means that understanding is achieved through science
and logic.
• Humanists believe that people can experience god through
his greatest creation, man.
• Renderings of god, mother mary, jesus, and the saints are
very humanlike, inspired by this philosophy.
 What are the characteristics of renaissance art?
• Individualism. The period gave significance to individual
personality, uniqueness, and genius.
• Weight was given to the full development of one’s talent.
• Paintings have single subject like the mona lisa.
• Realism. The renaissance artists sought to create
artworks that were realistic.
• Humans were drawn with facial expression and were
lifelike.
What are the characteristics of renaissance?
• Backgrounds in paintings made use of nature.
• Artists placed subjects in their natural settings
to give sense of familiarity and realness to their
work.
• This period develops the linear perspective
which allow artists to draw figures in three
dimension on a two-dimensional medium.
PAINTING MODES OF
THE RENAISSANCE
 Painting Modes of the Renaissance
• Sfumato. This painting mode blurs the edges of the
outlines, creating tonal value.
• It gives an appearance of a hazy layer on the work,
thus lightening bright areas as well as the dark ones.
• Leonardo da vinci used this technique on the mona
lisa, in which he blurred the edges, eliminating the
strong outlines.
SFUMATO
 Painting Modes of the Renaissance
• Unione. It is similar with sfumato, but unlike the
previous mode, the color intensity is not diluted.
• It is the use of colors without the severe lines. This
technique uses gradient changes between color and
the light blending on the edges but retains the overall
brilliance of the colors.
• Raphael used this technique on his work St. Catherine
of alexandria.
UNIONE
 Painting Modes of the Renaissance
• Chiaroscuro. It means “light and dark” in Italian.
• THIS MODE USES STRONG CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT AND
DARK.
• THIS STRONG CONTRAST CREATES SHADOWS AND LIGHT
THAT THE ARTIST USES TO CREATE A FOCAL POINT.
• A RENAISSANCE PAINTING THAT USES THIS TECHNIQUE IS
LEONARDO DA VINCI’S VIRGIN OF THE ROCK.
CHIAROSCURO
 Painting Modes of the Renaissance
• CANGIANTE. A PAINTING TECHNIQUE THAT RENDERS SHADOWS BY
REPLACING THE COLOR.
• CANGIANTE MEANS “TO CHANGE” IN ITALIAN. IT IS USED WHEN A
PAINTER USES ANOTHER HUE IN PLACE OF ANOTHER IF THE
ORIGINAL COLOR CANNOT BE MADE LIGHTER OR DARKER ENOUGH.
• THIS WAS USED BY MICHELANGELO IN SOME PANELS OF THE
SISTINE CHAPEL, THE PRESENTATION OF JESUS AT THE TEMPLE.
CANGIANTE
ARTISTS OF THE
RENAISSANCE
 Donatello (1386-1466)
Name: Donatello
Born: 1386CE
Medium of Art: Sculpture
Contribution: He was a sculptor that applied
perspective in his works. Knowing that his
sculptures would be viewed from below, and
statues viewed at this angle had a habit of
appearing stunted and peculiar, he sculpted his
statues to be wider and longer on top to remove
this optical illusion. His famous artwork is “David”
who is shown standing triumphant with a sword
and one foot stepping on Goliath’s decapitated
head.
 David
• It is a bronze sculpture of the biblical David
who is shown standing triumphant with a
sword and one foot stepping on Goliath’s
decapitated head.
• David is shown wearing only boots and a
shepherd’s hat with laurel leaves.
• It was the first free standing nude sculpture
to be done in a thousand years.
• It calls upon a heroic vibe like that of the
nude sculptures of the gods during the
Greek and Roman periods.
 Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Name: Michelangelo
Born: 1475
Medium of Art: Sculpture
Contribution: One of the most well-known
Italian Renaissance artists was Michelangelo
Buonarroti or more popularly known simply as
Michelangelo. He created a lot of
masterpieces for the Catholic Church. Among
his most well-known masterpieces is the
Pieta which means “pity”. It is sculpture of
Mother Marry cradling the body of Jesus after
it was brought down from the cross.
 Pieta
• Pieta means “pity”. It is a sculpture of
Mother Mary cradling of the body of Jesus
after it was brought down from the cross.
• The sculpture is made of marble and yet
Michelangelo was able to convey the soft
folds of the clothes.
• Very realistic emotions are seen on Mother
Mary’s face in contrast to Jesus’ lifeless
body.
• Mother’s love and sorrow is the powerful
message of this piece.
 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Name: Leonardo da Vinci
Born: 1475
Medium of Art: Painting
Contribution: He was a popular artist of the Italian
Renaissance. He is the embodiment of the
Renaissance. He was an artist and a scientist.
Many of his works were left unfinished simply
because he was unhappy with them, or he was
distracted with a new project. One of his famous
masterpieces is Mona Lisa. The portrait is said to
be Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del
Giocondo, but others think it was Leonardo
himself. Mona Lisa’s smile seems to hide a
secret that makes many viewers speculate the
meaning of her expression.
 The Last Supper
• It is a popular Christian subject among
artists.
• Da Vinci created his own version on a wall of
the dining hall of the Monastery of Santa
Maria delle Grazie in Milan from 1494-1499 CE.
• He used linear perspective, he made appear
the scene to be part of the Monastery.
• Christ was the focal point where all the
converging lines seem to meet.
• The figures appears to be in commotion, with
Christ announcing that there was a traitor
among them.
 Mona Lisa
• The Mona Lisa and her curious smile
has fascinated the world for
centuries.
• What makes it interesting is the
mysteries that surround it.
• The portrait is said to be Lisa
Gherardani, wife of Francesco del
Giocondo, a silk merchant who
commissioned da Vinci to paint his
wife, but others think it was Leonardo
himself.
 Raphael (1483-1520)
Name: Raphael
Born: 1483
Medium of Art: Painting
Contribution: Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael
has shown potential ever since he was young. He
was lucky enough to be an apprenticed by two of
the great Renaissance masters Leonardo Da Vinci
and Michelangelo. Under Leonardo’s tutelage, he
learned shading to create an illusion of three
dimensionality that is also known as modeling.
His famous work is the “School of Athens”. The
School of Athens is a fresco that embodies the
ideals of Renaissance art. It shows an interest on
the classical study of art and science that
features a who’s who of the great minds of
ancient Greece such as Plato, Aristotle, and many
more.
 School of Athens
• The School of Athens is a fresco that
embodies the ideals of Renaissance
art.
• It shows an interest on the classical
study of art and science that features a
who’s who of the great minds of
ancient Greece such as Plato, Aristotle
and many more.
• At a closer look, you can actually spot
a self-portrait of Raphael himself,
gazing directly back at the viewer in
the right foreground.