Renaissance Art

asceticism
mendicants
Brethren of the Common Life

• Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (1418)

body and spirit

• Romans 7:14-25
• Matthew 26:40-41

Pantocrator
Patiens (patior, to suffer)
Cult of the Virgin
allegory
naturalism

Perspective
vanishing point

• al-Hazen (965-1040), Optics
• Latin translation, 12c or 13c
• Lornezo Ghiberti, first quarter of 15c
  • Filippe Brunelleschi
  • Masaccio
  • Donatello

Patronage (patron/client relationship)

John of Genoa, Catholicon (late 13c)
Pope Gregory I "the Great" (ca. 600)

Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (1434)