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Renaissance Art: Renaissance Art
Slide2: ``Renaissance''--meaning ``rebirth''--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries.
Slide3: Some of the main features of art during the Renaissance were.
Slide4: Humanism - A person who studied the classics was called a humanist. Humanists recreated classical styles in art, literature, and architecture.
The Acropolis: The Acropolis
Slide6: Foreshortening –portraying an object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.
Slide7: Foreshortening
Slide8: Symmetry – correct proportion of body parts, grouping of figures so that they are the same on both sides.
Slide10: Contrapposto – (counterpoise)To model the human form in a non-symmetrical, relaxed stance that appears realistic
Slide12: Sfumato -The technique of effecting a gradual transition from one colour to another.
Slide13: Sfumato
Slide14: Chiaroscuro - A term describing the handling of light and dark particularly in painting.
Life and times of Botticelli: Life and times of Botticelli
Slide16: Fra Filippo Lippi
Coronation of the Virgin
Slide18: Lorenzo Medici
Slide19: Medici Palace
Slide20: Santa Maria
The last supper: The last supper
Sandro Botticelli: Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus. By Botticelli: The Birth of Venus. By Botticelli
Slide26: VENUS
Slide28: Another Botticelli art work
Slide29: Khufu Menkaure Khafre
Slide30: THE END BY TOM BROWN