| Paintings of the Renaissance |
| Good Morrow and welcome to the Renaissance Painting Museum. Thou tour guides today will be Aja, BriAnna, Shannon, and Kristen. Thou shall go to all the exhibits today. So keep up and stay with thy partner, for we do not wish to misplace thee. Thou shall learn about five specific painters during the Renaissance. First, let me inform thee. During the Renaissance, artists studied the natural world and understanding. They also worked on perfecting two main things: perspective and anatomy. Patrons are people of the middle class who would take artists into their home and supply them with food, shelter, and sometimes a monthly commission. This gave the artists the ability to experiment and pursue their personal vision. In return, the patrons would receive whatever art was made and gained prestige by offering economic support to the artist. So here we go to the first exhibit. |
| Watch thy step and gather around. The first exhibit focuses on the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. He is well known for his painting called Mona Lisa with her mysterious smile. This particular painting took him six years to complete. He was born in a town called Vinci, Italy. He was the first one to draw relaxed portraits with a misty landscape in the background. He painted by using mixed colors. Another fun fact is that he never put eyebrows on his paintings. Leonardo started an apprenticeship in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in 1466. Da Vinci was twenty when his name was officially inscribed on the roll of the Guild of St. Luke. He also painted "The Last Supper". |
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| Come along, here we are at the next exhibit on Michelangelo Buonarroti. He is well known for the Sistine Ceiling that displays the story of Creation. It also has stories from the book of Genesis. The ceiling is ten thousand square feet. Pope Julius II asked him to paint it. He started in May of 1508 and he was not finished until 1512. He was assisted by Giuliano Bugiardini, Aristotle da Sangallo, and Francesco Granacci. However, he did not like what they had painted and he fired them and repainted all the work they had done. He refused to show his work to anyone except the Pope. Michelangelo resisted using a paintbrush saying that his only tool was a chisel. He was born in the small village called Caprese but he considered himself a citizen of Florence. |
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Listen up people and stand near as we move on to this next exhibit. Giotto is the founder of Western painting. The subject matter of his art was a sense of solidity, reality and mass. According to some, Giotto changed painting from Greek to Latin. He influenced Florentine painting by bringing a sense of 3D to his works. Some of the pieces attributed to him were, "Christ Walking On Water" and "St. Francis Receiving the Stigma" The only work that is considered Giotto's own is "The Madonna in Glory". In 1134, Giotto was declared "capamastro" (main architect) of the Florence Cathedral Yard. He designed the famous tower built in Plaza Duomo. The tower is known as "The Giotto Tower." The artist died in 1337 and he never saw the finished tower. In fact, the tower was only in the first stage when he died. |
| Piero della Francesca of Italy, painting the stripped poles that carry candles in the religious processions, was his first job. He played a big role in the spread of Euclid's geometry because of his mathematic ability. He wrote De Prospective Pingendi which stated for more math skills than most painters had. All of his works include perspective and geometry. He usually went for the unfinished look and never aimed to please his contemporaries. |
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| By now thou hast learned a lot, aye. Well there is still more. Giovanni Bellini lived from 1430-1516. He was mostly taught by his father, Jacopo Bellini. His paintings show that his colors can gain depth and luminosity without getting rid of structure and interaction of form and space. He is known for "Virgin and Christ" and "Pieta." Many of his paintings are pictures of Madonna and Infant. He was the teacher of Giorgione and Titian. |
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| Patrons Florence Patron Alessandor Medici was the first duke of Florence and the patron of the leading artists. He was the first black head of state in the modern world. Alessandro's father was Cardinal Gioulo and his mother was a black serving woman. Italy Patron The patrons of Italy were the Borgia's. They were of origin and were smart but evil. Pope Callistus III and Pope Alexander VI were the two popes in the family. Rodrigp Borgia was the patron of the arts and did a lot for the university in Rome. The family was the patron of the arts also and it allowed the Renaissance to flourish. |
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| Mona Lisa |
| The Last Supper |
| Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Click on picture to see some of the Panels) |
| Madonna In Glory |
| Pieta |
| Renaissance Recipe Strawberry Tarts Take the best cherries you can get, and pick them clean from leaves and stalks: then spread out your coffin as for your pippin tart, and cover the bottom with sugar; then cover the sugar all over with cherries, then cover those cherries with sugar, some sticks of cinnamon, and her and there a clove; then lay in more cherries, and some more sugar, cinnamon and cloves till coffin is filled up: The cover it, and back it in all points as the coding and pippin tart, and so serve it and in the same manner you may make tarts of gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, bilberries, or any type of other berries. 2lbs strawberries 1/3 sup sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp cloves Preheat oven to 425F. Place bottom shell in pie. Sprinkle thoroughly with sugar. Cover bottom with strawberries. Sprinkle 1/2 the remaining sugar, cinnamon, cloves. Add another layer of strawberries, sprinkle with remaining sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. Put on lid and bake 45 minutes. Warning: This pie generates lots of juice, if you want a more jelled interior, you might try more sugar and some pectin or gelatin. |
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| Created by: Aja, BriAnna, Shannon, and Kristen |
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| The Museum |