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• Leonardo Da Vinci - He is known as the ultimate "Renaissance man". He was popularized in present times through "Da Vinci Code"
• Renaissance Periods - covers artwork produced during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Europe
• Renaissance comes from word

  "renaitre" which means rebirth
• Rembrandt van Rijn - was considered as one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art. No artist has painted himself as often as did Rembrandt. His well- known work was his "Self portrait in Old Age". Rembrandt had produced over 600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings, and 2000 drawings.
• Michelangelo - was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.

  • He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he was considered as one of the greatest artists of all time.
  • A number of his works in paintings, sculpture, architecture rank among the famous in existence.
• Raphael - was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance period.

  • His work was admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the interpreting the Divine and incorporating Christian doctrines.
• The arts of the Baroque Period are more elaborate and fuller of emotion. They developed in Europe around the 1600's. This type of art form was highly encouraged by the Catholic Church to propagate its dogma.
• Baroque era was derived from the Portuguese word "barocco" which means "irregular shaped pearl or stone".
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. His first artworks date from his 8th birthday.
• Diego Velasquez - of Spain developed out of the Baroque. He was one of the finest masters of composition and one of the most painters important of the Spanish Golden Age
• Michelangelo Merisi - He was better known as Caravaggio. He was an outcast in his society, because of his own actions and the lack of modesty and reverence! for religious subjects in his own paintings.
• Rembrandt - Self Portrait, The storm on the Sea of Galilee
• Leonardo Da Vinci - Mona Lisa,The last Supper
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini - David, Ecstasy of St. Teresa
• Michelangelo Merisi - Conversion of Saint Paul,Judith Beheading Hotofernes
• Diego Velasquez - Las Meninas,The triumph of Bacchus
• Michelangelo - David,The pieta
• Raphael -The Valeta,The sistine Madonna
• Sfumato - It is a pictorial technique in which colors blend together. Creates an image that has no lines or edges around the figures producing a soft hazy effect.
• Unione - is very similar to Sfumato. It also attempts a slow gradation of color but unlike Sfumato, it deploys vibrant and more saturated colors.
• Chiaroscuro - refers to the use of light and dark to create the illusion of three- dimensional volume on a flat surface. The term translates to "light- dark"
• Cangiante - It is characterized by a change in hue and color in order to depict shadows and highlights. It is all about replacing a color for another color.
• Fresco - is a mural painting technique that involves painting with water-based paint.