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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