High Renaissance and Mannerism

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo

Student Resources
PowerPoint
Artist Review PowerPoint
Key Ideas- Renaissance, Mannerism
Quick History
Study Guide
Artwork list
Vocabulary
Flash Card Images
* YouTube Videos: LOTS of them. Click on the page link to see 8+ videos on da Vinci, Michelangelo, and many more wonderful artworks!

* Read about Michelangelo's famous David from SmartHistory
* Symbolism and David by My Modern Met
* Want to know more about the fascinating life of da Vinci? Read it here!
* Website that has great images of many of da Vinci's drawings
* Separate website that has many images of his sketches
* What's up with Mona Lisa? *CROWDS at the Louvre! Yikes!
* Take a virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel :) Thank you Rachel!
* Great detail pictures and descriptions of The Last Judgment
* Interesting website on El Greco and The Burial of Count Orgaz
* Venus of Urbino at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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Don't forget to visit SmartHistory's Renaissance page for more information and more videos! Find additional links there for High Renaissance, Venetian, and Mannerist movements.

Whom did Pope Julius II commission to paint this work for his library? In what ways do the style and subject of the painting reflect the interests of its patron?
(From an early AP Exam question)

The relationship between an artist or architect and patron very often shapes the form and content of a work of art or architecture. Identify two works, each from a different art historical time period, and name the specific persons who commissioned them. Discuss how the specific interests and intentions of the particular patrons are revealed in each work.
(Artist and Patron- 2004 AP Exam)

Key Ideas- High Renaissance (1495-1520)

Revitalization of the city of Rome under Pope Julius II
All about Roman Grandeur by producing awe inspiring artistic projects
Key Points: Symmetry, Balance, Ideal Proportions, Triangular compositions
Venetian Painters stress sensuous forms with sophisticated color combos
Portraits are of true likeness and personalities
Renaissance = Before sack of Rome
Mannerism = After 1527

Key Ideas- Mannerism (1520-1600)

Mannerist art is deliberately intellectual, asking the viewer to respond in a sophisticated way to the spatial challenges
Complicated compositions, distorted figures, complex allegorical interpretations

Quick History

Renaissance means a "rebirth" suggesting that the 15th and 16th centuries marked an awakening from the "dark ages". The dark ages were actually a great time period where Europe gave rise to laws, language and economics.
New rise to secularism- not a huge focus on the hereafter
After the Protestant Reformation in 1517, High Renaissance art was not reflective of so called perfect world. The complexities of Mannerist art better describe this period.
Rome was sacked in 1527 by Charles V against France, Milan, Venic, Florence, and the Papacy
The Council of Trent (1545-1563) or the Counter-Reformation, created a new order of priests, the Jesuits.
Jesuits used art as a teaching tool and a religious statement.

Artwork List

The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Sistine Chapel
-Delphic Sybil
-The Flood
-The Last Judgment
School of Athens
Venus of Urbino
Pieta (Michelangelo)
David
Entombment of Jesus
Il Gesù facade
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
Madonna with the Long Neck

Vocabulary

arcadian
canvas
cassone
chiaroscuro
cinquecento
entombment
flood story
genre painting
glazes
grisaille
ignudi
Last Supper
sfumato
sibyl
still life
terribilita