Renaissance

• Period of economic progress. It was an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of a secular art.

  Renaissance Period (1400-1600)
• The focus was on realistic and humanistic art. Art was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective and deeper landscape.

  Renaissance Period (1400-1600)
• Painters' depicted real-life figures and their sculpture were naturalistic portraits of human being. Architecture was characterized by its symmetry and balance.

  Renaissance Period (1400-1600)
• An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He was considered as one if the greatest artist at all time

  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• His works ranks among the famous in existence. Pieta and David were sculpted before he tumed thirty. He also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the Western Art history.

  Michelangelo d Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• What are thevtwo of the most influential works in fresco in the Western Art history made by Michelangelo

  Genesis on the ceiling and the last judgement
• This painting of michelangelo had the idea of redemption as represented by the seated Madonna holding Christ's

  Pieta
• A painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. Popularized in present times through the novel and movie, "Da Vinci Code"

  Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
• The ultimate "Renaissance man" because of intellect, interest, talent and his expression of humanist and classical values. One of the greatest painters of all time.

  Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
• Stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote, "Leonardo undertook to paint for Francesco del Giocondo the portrait of his wife


  Mona Lisa
• Mona, in Italian, is polite form of address originating as Madonna- similar to Ma'am, Madamme" or "My lady" in English and Monna Lisa in Modern Italian.
• Italian Painter and Architect of the High Renaissance period. Admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the interpreting the Divine and incorporating Christian doctrines

  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)
• Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period. His main contributions to art were unique draftsmanship and compositional skills


  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)
• What are some of the famous wokrs of Raffaello Urbino

  • The Sistine Madonna
  • The School of Athens
  • The Transfiguration - last painting he worked up to his death
• Italian great artist of the period. Early Renaissance sculptor from Florence. Known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture.

  Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
• Art of calm and beauty. Its creations are perfect- they reveal nothing forced or inhibited, uneasy or agitated. Each form has been born easily, free and complete.

  Renaissance Art
• First known FREE-STANDING NUDE STATUE produced in ancient times.

  Renaissance Art