MAPEH L2 - Q2

Michelangelo

• one of the greatest artists in the Italian Renaissance period.

• known primarily as an outstanding painter and sculptor

Bacchus

a sculpture of the Roman God of Wine

David (Michelangelo)

a marble sculpture of David, a symbol of strength and youthful beauty

La Pieta

is a sculpture of the Virgin Mary with the dead Christ in her arms

Leonardo Da Vinci

• the ultimate Renaissance man because of his intellect, interest, talent, and expression of humanist and classical values

Mona Lisa

most famous and most parodied portrait

Salvator Mundi

depicts Jesus Christ in robes, one hand raised in blessing and the other holding an orb representing the world

The Last Supper

most reproduced religious painting of all time

Raphael

• admired of his clarity of form and interpreting divine and incorporating Christian doctrines

The Sistine Madonna

an oil painting of Raphael intended for the monastery church of San Sisto in Piacenza

The Transfiguration

Commisioned by Pope Clement VII conceived as an alterpiece

School of Athens

Commissioned fresco representing the gathering of ancient philosophers

Donatello

• one of the greatest Florentine sculptors

David (Donatello)

Bronze sculpture known as the first known free-standing nude statue produced

The Penitent Magdalene

Wooden sculpture showing the repentant Magdalene as an old haggard woman

St. John the Evangelist

A noble and introspective prophet seated in flowing robes

Caravaggio

• practiced the artstyle of tenebrism which uses intense contrasting of white and dark values

• wanted to deviate from the classical masters of Renaissance

Bernini

• trained under the rigid, disciplined craftsmanship of his sculptor father

• last in the list of the dazzling universal geniuses

Rubens

• tried to expose beauty tempered with religious disposition in his works

• well known for his paintings of mythology and figurative objects.

Rembrandt

• a brilliant Dutch realist, painter, and etcher

Velasquez

• acquainted with the Italian masters of the Renaissance