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The History of Renaissance Art, Student Style
The best of 2005-6 student bloopers.
Painting
The history of Renaissance art starts with Giotto. Giotto's figures all look different, unlike Cimabue and Duccio, whose angels look like Oompa Loompas. [See for yourself if this is a good comparison...] |
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| Giotto’s Madonna is all iced out, cuz that gets respect for Christianity. | |||||
In 1420, Masaccio painted his Explosion of Adam and Eve. He is also famous for his Trinity, which shows God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Grey Pigeon. |
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| Botticelli's style is different from Giotto's and all the other artists we have seen in many facets, because these types of private commissions have all been designed with the same type of Christian idolatry in mind. Botticelli's main innovation is his direct copying of classical antiquities. |  Botticelli's famous "Birth of Idolatry" (Minnesota, very Private Collection). |
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| Leonardo takes us into the High Renaissance with his painting of an often-repeated subject matter: the Annotation of Mary. |
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Architecture
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The purpose of looking at Santo Spirito is to show the progress of architecture under Brunelleschi. The shape and length of windows, the large columns, and the pointed arches of the church all suggest that Brunelleschi was influenced by the Gothic Style [uh... sic!]. Santo Spirito sucks the viewer in through the architecture! |
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The Pisa Duomo complex was built by bad architects who didn't consider foundation. |
Sculpture
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This competition panel shows Abraham who is told by God to sacrifice his only son Isaac but is stopped in the knick of time by an angel who brings good tidings and a relieving "just kidding" from the passive-aggressive God of the Old Testament. |
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From a Slide ID test... This panel [Creation scene, the Gates of Paradise] by Ghiberti shows a saint followed by angels healing a starving man. This shows the great humility and good nature of saints. |
City planning
| The walls of Lucca were useful [for defense] because planes were not invented yet. |  |
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