Arts

• Italian Renaissance began in the late 14 Century.
• Renaissance comes from the word renaitre which means rebirth
• Architecture - A type of artwork in renaissance that has symmetry and balance.
• The rebirth era is the renaissance
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 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.
• Fresco is a technique wherein the pigments are mixed with water and directly painted onto the wall
• Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci He was a painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. He was popularized in present times through the novel and movie, “Da Vinci Code.” He is known as the ultimate because of his intellect, interest, talent and his expression of humanist and classical values.
• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance period. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. His main contributions to art were his unique draftsmanship and compositional skills.
• Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello) Donatello was one of the Italian great artists of the period. He was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence.
• The term Baroque was derived from the Portuguese word which means “irregularly shaped pearl or stone
• Baroque developed in Europe around the 1600s.
• Baroque Art aims to give an effect that wants to carry the viewer’s away with the force of its impact.
• In the 16th century, the Baroque style was carried by the Spanish and Portuguese to the Philippines.
• Amerighi da Caravaggio was better known as "Caravaggio". He was an Italian artist who wanted to deviate from the classical masters of the Renaissance.
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. He practiced architecture, and sculpture, painting, stage design, and was also a playwright. He was the greatest baroque sculptor and architect as seen in his design of the Piazza San Pietro in front of the Basilica.
• Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was well known for his paintings of mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes, portraits, and Counter- Reformation altarpieces
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter and etcher. He is generally considered as one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art.
• Diego Velasquez developed out of the Baroque. He was one of the finest masters of composition and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age