Rise of the Renaissance
Humanism Reborn
- Rediscovery of Classical Humanism but within a Christian
context
- Earthly beauty over heavenly abstraction
- Praxitelian form and S-curve rediscovered
- Christian humanism
- Pagan forms and Ovid Myths
New Techniques and Media
- Perspective and the illusion of depth
- Liner Perspective - objects higher on the picture plane
appear further away
- Size Perspective - smaller objects appear further away
- The foreshortened form
- To reduce/distort (parts of a represented object that
are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion
of depth
- Tintoretto - Last
Supper
- Leonardo - Last
Supper
- Oil paint
- Canvas
- Flexibility and "illusionistic" effects
- Glazing - Transparent films of paint allowing the
under-paint to shine through
- Modeling - Gradations of value to show the effects
of light on surfaces such as drapery
- Sfumato - Developed by Leonardo it is gradual blending
of one area of color into another without a sharp outline
- Leonardo - Madonna
of the Rocks
- Leonardo - Mona
Lisa
The Northern Renaissance 
- Commercial Revolution and the development of Capitalism
- The Reformation(s) and the rejection of Catholic monopoly
of faith
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter