David. Miguel Angel.

Sculture card:
Name: David
Author: Miguel Angel
Year: 1501-1504
Style: Renacimiento italiano
Technique: Carrara marble

Introduction:
This sculture is the David do for Miguel Angel in the italian renaissance . The style is carrara marble that is a kind of marble extracted for the Alpes Apuanos.It was created between 1501 to 1504.

Analysis:
This is a sculture do for marble, this sculture measure five meters approximately, that represent David that was a religious man that fight against Goliant and win, a few years later David was a king of Israel. Miguel Angel gives tension to David, for example in the hands. Stay in Florencia ( Italy) because was a charge the Galeria de la Academia situated in this place. Miguel Angel utilize the light through the shadow and the clarity. Is a historical sculture. Is realistic because is a reality person that live in the past, is naturalistic because represent all the body of David, is idealised because the measure is five metters and is emotions because the  expressed the expression face. This sculture is very important because is masterpiece of Miguel Angel because returns to Greece and Rome and is one of the most representative piece of artof the italian reinassance. Was a part of cincueccento

Conclusion:
Is a excellent piece of art because is a great job to mold this marble that this measure this was very important for this motives this piece have many copies. Is the first reality piece realised in the italian renaissance.

Gioconda by Leonardo Da Vinci

PAINTING CARD:

Title/name: Mona Lisa and also Gioconda.
Author: Leonardo da Vinci.
Year: 1517.
Style: Renaissance.
Technique: Oil painting.
General description: It is the picture of a women, the Mona Lisa, also known as the Gioconda because she was the Francisco of Giocondo's wife.



INTRODUCTION

The piece is called Mona Lisa because the woman who appeared in the picture is called Lisa Gherardini and Mona meant "lady" in old Italian. Also, is called Gioconda because she was the Francisco of Giocondo's wife.
The author is Leonardo da Vinci. He was an Italian scientist and artist. He was born in Vinci(Italy) in 1452 and he died in Amboise(France) in 1519. He was an universal humanist and he contributes in the Renaissance. He was, with Michelangelo and Raphael, the three biggest artirst of the Cinquecento and one of his most famous pieces is this picture, the Mona Lisa.
It belongs to the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century. It belongs to the Cinquetento in which Rome became the artist centre with painters as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Sanzio. Also there were other phases:

• Trencento: the 14th century, it appeared the features of the early Renaissance.
• Quattrocento: the 15th century, appeared the Renaissance innovations, the harmony and proportion.
• Mannerism: It beganin 1530 in Italy, harmony and proportion were abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci worked a lot of hours in this piece. He started to work in it in 1503 but he nerver consedered it finished. He do not want give it to his client. It was his favourite piece and he carried the piece with him on his trips.

ANALYSIS

The technique used is the oil painting on a board. The oil painting consisted on mix oil with mineral pigments.

Also, in this period they used frescoes and tempera.

He used the linear perspective which consisted of arranging the elements on imaginary lines which converge at a banishing point at the back.

The light is very well used in this picture. The light comes form the front of the picture and the shadows create a feeling of three dimensions and the most important parts of the picture, the hands and the face of the Mona Lisa, are iluminated.

Da Vinci used dark colours. For the clothes of the Mona Lisa and for the background of the picture he used the black and the dark blue and green. 

The picture in general is dark and only highlights the skin of the Mona Lisa in a yellow colour. The light and some features such as the folds of her dress also show that the Mona Lisa is near and the landscape is far.

The composition is formed by two planes, the Mona Lisa which have a triangular composition and the background of the picture. The Gioconda is the beggining of the landscape and it rise to the horizon. At the end all the elements are confused due to the the sfumato technique which consisted in blur the features to make indefinible contours.

The function is that Da Vinci wanted to paint the human personality and something to show the human  senses and the curiosity. Also she was Francisco of Giocondo's wife and Francisco was an aristocrat who wanted that Da Vinci painted her. At the end, Da Vinci loved his work and he did not give it to him.

It is a century in which the painting lived an evolution, the figure of the men is the core for this evolution.

The figures are realistic, the Mona Lisa was painted when she was 24 years old, she was sat down on a chair with her right arm resting on the armrest. Her posture is straight and she produces a balance sensation. She is wearing easy clothes and she do not wear jewelry.

The light of her eyes and the colour of her skin shows the naturality.

In the Mona Lisa we can see the principal characteristic of the period some of them were:

• Idealism and serenity: Painters tried to reflect reality and at the same time they wre influenced by the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato. The most important artist were Botticelli and Raphael Sanzio with their Madonnas, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
• The human body: They were interested in the anatomy of men. They returned to the nude.
• The search for balance and proportion: They wanted to get symmetries and pyramidal composition.

Other important pictures of this period are The Birth of Venus which was inspirated in the mythology and The School of Athens in which appeared the most important people of the period.

CONCLUSION

The Mona Lisa is the most known picture in the history of painting. It has not got influences.

Later, the Mona Lisa inspired a lot of painters. For example, Fernando Botero in 1978 and Autoritratto comme Mona Lisa by Salvador Dali in 1954. And some books like "El código de Da Vinci".

When Da Vinci died Francisco I, king of France in this period, reclaimed the picture and from this moment to nowadays, it is in the Louvre Museum in France.

I like this picture and took my atention her mysterious smile. If you look at her eyes, the Mona Lisa is smiling but if you look at her mouth she is not smiling. I do not know well why but I think that it is caused of the colours of the picture.

In conclusion, the Mona Lisa is the most known picture in the history of painting and it is from the Italian Renaissance, from the Cinquecento.

Dome of Florence. Brunelleschi.

Introduction:




*Title: Dome of Florence.

*Architect: Brunelleschi.

*Style: Gothic and Italian Renaissance.

*Year: 1294-1436.

*Chronology and historical context: Construction began in 1296 , with the direction of Arnolfo di Cambio . After his death, the powerful union of Art Lana , who had the responsibility to control the works , hired first to Giotto , who cared about all of the tower, and then Francesco Talenti , who edited a part of the project original Arnolfo di Cambio . In 1380 the first three arcades were completed and the cover of the three ships.







Analysis:


It is a cathedral made ​​of marble and brick. The shape of his plan is basilical. The types of arches in the cathedral there are semicircular. The dome, 45.5 m wide, was originally a wooden dome built by Arnolfo di Cambio . Build a dome over the presbytery it entailed many technical problems. its function remains of a cathedral but tourist.
This cathedal is very important because it is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, and convina two very different styles and pickup as one of the oldest .









Conclusion:




This cathedral is very important because it is a very high tourist value, quer produces a lot of money to Florence. This cathedral influences me peace, and leads me to think as they could do it, also seems to me veery nice.

Santa Maria Novella by Alberty

                                                           
Architectonic cards:

Title: Santa Maria novella
Author: Alberti.
Year: 1470
Style: Gothic - Renaissance.
Technique: It is a cosntruction of stone with marble and brick.

General description: The basilica is one of the most important churches of the Italian city of Florence, and is located in the nothwest of the ancient city, in the place of the same name and part next to the railway statation.

Introuction

Its name is the Santa Maria Novella by Alberti. It was finished in 1470.




Analysis

The basilica is the cult Roman Catholic, was used for regular workship, the basiliza had to chock repeatecly. The marble facade is among the most important work of the Florecine Resaissance, it was completed in 1470, The first interventetion was carried out in 1350, when the area was coveredwith the white and green marble thanks to the patronage of such a torino of badelse fu, died a year before. Six niches of the two sides covers, of gothic style, as well as the ornamentation or the marble boxes date form that time. In one of those niches Giovanni Bocaccio set one of his stories from the decameron. The niches continued along the eastern external wall around the ground of the cementery and the church. The painter Domenico Ghirlandaio is buried in one of them. Commissioned by the Rucellai Leon Batista Alberti family, designe the large central door, and the sanp-top of the facade in white and dark green marble, finished in 1470. The church has a Latin cross plan, with typical features of Cirstencial Gothic architeture, divided into three naves.


Conclcusion.

I like this basilica because it is a beautiful church, and is one of the most important basilica. There was to chock repeatecly,  the church has a Latin cross plan, with typical features of Cirstencial Gothic architeture, divided into three naves.

Italian renassaisance. Church San Lorenzo, Brunulleschi

Architectonic card:

Title/name: Church of San Lorenzo, Florence.
Author: Brunelleschi.
Year: 1422-1442
Style: Italian Renaissance architecture of Quattrocento.
Technique: It is a construction of stone with decoration of marble.
General description: It is a religious building of the Italian Quattrocento in which highlight the semi-circular arches and coffered ceilings.

INTRODUCTION

We are going to analyse the picture of the interior of a church. It is the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. It was built by Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi was an Italian architect and sculptor he did some of the first masterpieces of the Renaissance architecture as for example the Sta María de las Flores Cathedral.
It was built between 1422 and 1442 so it is a construction of the Italian Renaissance architecture of Quattrocento.


ANALYSIS

The Italian Ranaissance was a revival of Classical Greek and Roman Culture.
It is a church from Florence built of stones and decorated of marble. It is inspired in the Santa Cruz basilica, a gothic cathedral. We can see that it has a very long plant of Latin cross, it is formed by three naves which are joined to lateral chapels. We can see semi-circular arches in the two sides. The apse looks like a square. Itn the photo, the light cross trought the glass.

Also, in this period highlighted:
Domes, for example in the Saint Peter's Basilica.
Columns
Triangular pediments and geometric desings for examplethe Basilica Santa María Novella
Longitudinal and central-plan.

Everything seem like perfect because during the Italian Renaissance architecture they used this methods:
Simplicity
Open, diphanous spaces
Proportion

The Quattrocento stayed during the 15th century, in Florence and their innovations were the harmony and proportion. The most important architest wre Brunelleschi, the arquitect of this church, Alberti, Ghiberti and Donatello
There were also other phases during the Renaissance:
The Trecento
The Cinquecento in which Rome became the artistic centre and
The Mannerism in which harmony and proportion wre abandoned.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion this Italian construction by Brunelleschi shous the harmony and the proportion. All looks like perfect and this church is one of the first that it starts a new period, the Renaissance.

Palazzo Medici.

Architectonic cards:

Title: Palazzo medici.

Author: Michelozzo di Barolomeo.

Year: 1444-1460.

Style: Reinassance-gotique.

Technique: Masonry.

Information:  is the Palazzo Medici do for Michelozzo di Batolomeo in 1444. It is part of the italian renassience. Is location in Florencia (Italy). The bourgueoisie win very important in the society. In the society have a autoritarian monarchy.

Analysis: is a palazo that have three plant (square plant) built for masonry in stone.Have a reinassance plant, a backyard with a form the square. Have things taken to the gotique. The first floor looks like a fort. Michelozzo start to built this palazzo in 1444 and finish in 1460. Dont have vaults and domes but have doric colums. Have a middle point arch. Highlight a big living room and the Ricardianna library. The funcion of this palazzo is for residence for the Medici family. This is part for the italian renassiance but as I said before have some things taken to the gotique.

Conclusion: this is a part of the italian renassience is a very important and famous architecture. The most important part is the library because have documents,letters,books... the very importance.

David de Miguel Ángel

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