High+Renaissance

A fun link to the Renaissance:
@http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm

PHILOSOPHY

 * Key monuments are created between 1495 and 1520 - a relatively short time considering the fame involved
 * This happens due to an artistic or creative peak which like any peak, does not last long.
 * REFORMATION – Oct. 31, 1517 – Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the door of Wittenburg Church (Germany) –
 * PROTESTant- protesting the abuses of power, the excesses, the “humanism” of the church
 * Renaissance means re-birth of the classics and humanistic approach

Three Main Artists of this Era are:
Leonardo da Vinci Michelangeo Raphael

High Renaissance:
1. combining the divine with the human in art 2. peak of the movement, invented ways of doing art that were new and revolutionary 3. art is finally taken seriously as a thought process (science, math in art) not just a craft



“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” da Vinci said this after the praise given him upon completing the angel in the Verocchio Painting.
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Was born illegitimately
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">mother died at an early age
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was sent to be an apprentice artist when he was only 14 years old.
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Military engineer, for Duke of Milan
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Notes written backwards – pulling pen vs. pushing pen? Could be a lefty
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">harmonious combining of divine and human in portraits
 * <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">invented many things, several way before their time

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Leonardo was the original Renaissance Man: Talented in multiple areas-art, science, math, writing, engineering etc.
media type="youtube" key="PBXb6AEZrWw" height="315" width="420" <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">//"The heavens often rain down the richest gifts on human beings, but sometimes they bestow with lavish abundance upon a single individual beauty, grace and ability, so that whatever he does, every action is so divine that he distances all other men, and clearly displays how his greatness is a gift of God and not an acquirement of human art. Men saw this in Leonardo."// (Vasari, on Leonardo)

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adoration of the Magi <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="QxNqWZPzsGw" height="274" width="482"

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Virgin of The Rocks <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="94xKRkCHlv0" height="315" width="420"

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">360 degree Tour of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan: Home of da Vinci's //Last Supper//
@http://milan.arounder.com/en/churches/santa-maria-delle-grazie-church/leonardo-s-last-supper.html

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="youtube" key="4NEXxAGG79A" height="315" width="420" <span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/leonardo-mona-lisa.html

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: #801a00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Raphael: School of Athens
media type="youtube" key="zpLEUF8qS3o" height="315" width="420"

media type="youtube" key="ln9VIRiocps" height="315" width="420"

media type="youtube" key="sv9CHsd546Q" height="315" width="420"