Arts - Renaissance art (Painting modes and Artist)

Sfumato

“Soft or blurred”; eliminates outline by using soft gradation of colors.

Unione

Like Sfumato but uses more vibrant/bright colors.

Chiaroscuro

“Light and dark”; shows high contrast between light and dark.

Cangiante

“To change”; change in hue/color in order to depict shadows and highlights.

Donatello

he was an Itailian sculptor fron Florejce. He studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture. Friend of Brunelleschi. (1386-1466)

Donatello

Made the sculpture david, the most famous work, and the first known free-standing nude statue produced since antiquitiy. The first major work Renaissance sculpture.

Leonardo Da vinci

A masterful painter, architect, sculptor, engineer, and scientist. A quintessential Renaissance man, his pursuit to knowledge was relentless and his discoveries left lasting changes in the fields of arts and sciences. (1452-1519)

Mona Lisa

Is a half-length portait of a woman, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the msot visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. (1503-1506)

La Gioconda

It is a Italian title, Meaning: happy

Lisa del Giocondo

a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florence silk Merchant Frencesco del Giocondo

Michelangelo Buonarroti

A sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. One of the greatest artist of all time; his works rank among the most famous in existence: Pieta, David, Genisis, The last Judgement. Called Il Divino (“the divine one”)

Pieta

Depicts the body of Jesus on thr lap of his mother Mary after the crucifixion. It is an important work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism. (1497-1500).

The creation of Adam

(1508-1512)

The last Judgement

It is a depiction of the Second coming of Jesus Christ and the final and eternal judgement by God of all humantity. The souls of the humans rise and descend to their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by the prominent saints. Painted in the altar of Sistine Chapel, Vatican city. Made for four years, between 1536 and 1541. Made twenty five years after having finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Raphael Sanzio

Known as the genius of High Renaissance painters and the greatest designer of the time. One of the most detailed painters of all portraitists. Cheif architect of St. Peter’s Basilica (1514). Director of all excavation of antiquites in the Vatican. (1483-1520)

Madona if the Meadows

Made in Florence, Raphael Sanzio’s paintin gshows the Girgin with the Christ and St. John the baptist in a highly serene and tender moment against a landscape backdrop which places the scene in a Tuscan setting. 1505-1206)

Groom of the chamber

Means he just waits fot the Pope to help him, or in Raphael’s case, he received “favors” from Leo.

The Transfiguration (1520)