Arts - Renaissance & Baroque Period

Renaissance

is the period of great change and marked the glories of ancient Greece and Rome.

Development of Renaissance art featured the use of ______________ to make art more realistic.

perspective, balance and proportion

Baroque period

is the art from the late 1500s to the late 1700s which allowed the period to cover many styles and different types of artist in the field of painting and sculpture.

Chiaroscuro

Baroque art introduced this new technique through which artist create dramatic and selective illumination of a figure out of the dark depths of its shadow.

Can be seen in Linear Perspective, but not in regular paintings:

Lines, shapes, shades, curved lines

Michelangelo Buonarotti

He is a well-known sculptor and painter of the Renaissance period. (1475-1564)

Michelangelo Buonarotti

He is the High Renaissance engineer who exerted unparalleled influence on Western art.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

considered himself first and foremost a sculptor, not a painter.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

He sometimes characterized his ideas for sculpture as prisoners inside a slab of marble.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Made pietas

Pieta

a painting or sculpture of Mary holding and grieving over the dead body of Christ. This word means “pity.”

Michelangelo Buonarotti’s works:

David, Pieta, Tomb of Lorenzo

The Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo’s most famous work covers covered 1,000 square yards showing scenes from the Old Testament:

The Sistine Chapel - his most famous work covers covered 1,000 square yards showing scenes from the Old Testament:

• The Creation of the World, Adam and Eve, and Noah

• Pictures of Old Testament prophets and other figures

Old testament stories & ancestors of Jesus

In the triangular panels he painted ____ and in the crescent-shaped panels he painted the _____.

Leonardo da Vinci

The true genius of this man was a product of his overall positive and driven attitude together with the endless energy flowing from his deep commitment to complete his goal.

Last Supper

Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is the ________. It was painted for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

He is a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. (1483-1520)

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

He is best known for his Madonnas and large figure compositions in the Vatican.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

His painting are admired for their clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)

The coronation of the Virgin was painted for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the church of San Francesco al Prato Italy (now Vatican Pinacoteca)

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)’s works:

The Small Cowper Madonna, The Madonna in the Meadow, Coronation of the Virgin, The Parnassus

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)

A great Florentine Italian sculptor and the most influential artist of the 15th century (1386-1466)

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)

He left an indelible mark on the Renaissance and the future of art itself.

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)

He was a former apprentice to Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)

eventually became one of the most sought after artist in Italy for his lifelike and highly emotional sculptures.

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)’s works:

completed some of the most well-known sculpture in Western art including David, Mary Magdalen, St. John the Baptist, and the compelling Gattamelata. (Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata)

Michelangelo

1475-1564

Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519

Raphael

1483-1520

Donatello

1386-1466