RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM

• Early Renaissance painting


  • Emphasized simplicity, religious ardor, piety, gestures, and facial expressions
• High Renaissance painting


  • Introduced new techniques like chiaroscuro by Da Vinci and contrapposto by Michelangelo
• Gothic cathedrals


  • Usually have two towers
• Pointed arch


  Made the building larger and bigger
• Buttresses


  Used to support the building
• Renaissance painting


  Changes to the medieval styles of painting
• Characteristics of early Renaissance painters

  • Simplicity
  • Religious ardor
  • Piety
  • Gestures and facial expressions
• High Renaissance painters


  • Introduced new techniques like chiaroscuro and contrapposto twist of the human anatomy
• Mannerism


  Characterized by spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of the human figures
• Mannerist painting


  • The Slaughter of the Innocents by Tintoretto
• Renaissance architecture


  Developed in the 15th century up to the 16th century, influenced by Greek and Roman styles
• Differences in Renaissance architecture

  • Over-hanging cornice
  • String course
  • Pilaster
  • Ornamental pediment
• Renaissance dome


  Made much steeper and adopted in smaller buildings and symmetrical structures
• Renaissance architecture


  • Observed objective, mathematical standards of measurement and proportion
  • Revived the classical orders, ideas of balance, symmetry and proportion
• Early Renaissance architecture


  • Basilica of San Lorenzo
• Mannerism


  Assertion of a purely aesthetic ideal, translated form and expression into a style of the utmost refinement that emphasized grace, variety, and virtuoso display at the expense of content, clarity, and unity
• Mannerist painting


  • Self-Portrait by Parmigianino
  • The Madonna with the Long Neck by Parmigianino
• Mannerist sculpture


  • Lacked a consistent integration between elements, placed emphasis on encrusted decoration to create picturesque effects, with occasional distortion of form and novel, even illogical rearrangement of space