Early+Renaissance

Donatello's David
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The Davids of the Renaissance
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c. 1420, in front of the Baptistry in Florence
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Harmonious Proportions and Perfection: How Beauty is created
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome, Santa Maria del Fiore (The Duomo), Florence
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Massacio's Linear Perspective
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Massacio's //Tribute Money//
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Verrocchio's //Baptism of Christ//, 1470-75, oil and tempera on panel
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How do we get to the High Renaissance? @http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/High-Renaissance.html



Sandro Botticelli's Primavera
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==Sandro Botticelli's //The Birth of Venus// tempera on panel, c. 1483-85 ==

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 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">seen as controversial in his day
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">pagan themes in Christian times
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">female nudity shocking to many
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">ideal beauty and love
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">tried to link to Christian themes of Mary as ideal
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">this isn’t Mary!
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Renaissance = Rebirth of the classics

<span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bellini's St. Francis In Ecstasy
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 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">St. Francis in Ecstasy
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1475 and finished it around 1480
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">oil and tempera on panel
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">unique depiction of St. Francis
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">receiving stigmata
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">from Venice

<span class="caption" style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Andrea Mantegna, //Dead Christ//, tempera on canvas, c. 1490
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 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Extreme foreshortening
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tempera on Canvas
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">command of perspective and realism
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">very human Christ
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">disturbing point of view
 * <span style="color: #801c00; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">from Venice