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HighRen_Raphael1.pptxART HISTORY 132
High Renaissance: Italian Painting
Raphael
(1483-1520)
Raphael (c. 1483-1520)
biography: father had been court painter to Duke of Urbino
training: workshop of Perugino
significance: most complete expression of High Ren ideal of harmony
techniques: synthesizes lessons of Leonardo & Michelangelo
linear & aerial perspective
strong contour lines
colorism
graceful figures
Christian and Humanist (re: mythological) themes
Raphael
Marriage of the Virgin (1504)
subject matter: NT
figures: idealized
poses: contrapposto
composition: stable
color: vibrant
light/shadow: directed
perspective: combines linear & aerial
vanishing point
unlike Perugino, opens up horizon into deep space
vantage point
lower (more intimate) than Perugino’s
increases area that figures’ occupy
RAPHAEL’s Italian High Renaissance Marriage of the Virgin (c. 1500) vs. PERUGINO’s Italian Early Renaissance Delivery of the Keys (c. 1475)
RAPHAEL’s Italian High Renaissance Marriage of the Virgin (c. 1500 CE) vs. Classical Greek Nike Adjusting Her Sandal from the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike atop the Acropolis (c. 425-400 BCE)
Raphael’s Italian High Renaissance Madonna of the Meadow (1505-1506)
RAPHAEL’s Italian High Renaissance The School of Athens (c. 1500)
Raphael
Galatea (1513)
theme: mythological
composition:
dynamic movement & gestures
stabilized
principal narrative figure placed along CVA
implicit triangular format angels above
color: vibrant/localized red cloak complimented by aqua green
figures: idealized
poses: dynamic
moves beyond “contrapposto” in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
perspective:
linear established by human figures’ movement rather than architecture
overlapping
foreshortening
aerial view into deep space
(Left) Leonardo’s Leda and the Swan (1510) vs. (right) Raphael’s High Renaissance Galatea (1513)
Raphael
Pope Leo X (1517)
figures: realistic
unflattering physical features
does not falsify sitters’ personality
composition: synthetic
principal figure placed along CVA
dynamic diagonals & lines of sight/gazes
color: vibrant, rich textures
light/shadow: variation of “chiaroscuro”
IMAGE INDEX
Slide 2: RAPHAEL. Self-Portrait (c. 1500)
Slide 3: RAPHAEL. Marriage of the Virgin (1504), Oil on panel, 67 x 46 ½ in., Milan, Italy.
Slide 4: (Left) RAPHAEL’s Marriage of the Virgin (1504); and (right) PERUGINO’s Delivery of the Keys (c. 1480), Fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.
Slide 5: (Left) RAPHAEL’s Italian High Renaissance Marriage of the Virgin (c. 1500 CE); and (right) Classical Greek Nike Adjusting Her Sandal from the south frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike atop the Acropolis (c. 425-400 BCE)
Slide 6: RAPHAEL. Madonna of the Meadow (1505), Wood, 44 ½ x 34 ¼ in., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Slide 7: RAPHAEL. The School of Athens (c. 1510), fresco, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome.
Slide 8: RAPHAEL. Galatea (1513), Fresco, 9’8 ½ ” x 7’4”, Villa Farnesina, Rome.
IMAGE INDEX
Slide 9: (Left) Leonardo’s Leda and the Swan (1510); and (right) Raphael’s High Renaissance Galatea (1513)
Slide 10: RAPHAEL. Pope Leo X with Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi (c. 1518), Oil on panel, 60 5/8 x 46 7/8 in., Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
