ACS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michelangelo, Sfumato, Polymath
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Patronage: wealthy families, city governments, guilds, popes. Renaissance art forms: new sense of proportion, balance and harmony. Christian message and aspiration to instruct the laity and inspire piety. To paint, it was very flat looking and one dimensional, colour was done by egg and pigment. Renaissance style of art spirituality and values of humanism (cid:862)pai(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g should i(cid:373)itate (cid:374)ature(cid:863) Contrapposto pose weight is on the right leg in statues. The left is at ease and kind of represent nature in the background represent the most beautiful human being bent. Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519) (cid:862)re(cid:374)aissa(cid:374)ce (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863): pai(cid:374)ter, sculptor, architect, (cid:373)usicia(cid:374), (cid:373)athe(cid:373)aticia(cid:374), e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)eer, inventor. Among his masterpieces: the annunciation, the virgin of the rocks, the last supper, Philosophy of painting: naturalism, painting should imitate nature; used the new technique of oil paint and sfumato. Michelangelo buonarotti (1475-1564) (cid:862)re(cid:374)aissa(cid:374)ce (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863): sculptor, pai(cid:374)ter, poet, e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)eer, architect. Notable patrons: lorenzo de medici, pope julius ii. A(cid:373)o(cid:374)g his (cid:373)asterpieces: david, frescoes of the isti(cid:374)e chapel of t.