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ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIOD

REINAISSANCE PERIOD

1400-1600

Renaissance = Rebirth

Renaissance was the period of economic progress.

Italian renaissance begins 14th century. It was the era of great artistic and intellectual achievement

With the birth of secular art.

Renaissance painter depicted real-life figures and their sculptures were naturalistic portraits of human being.

Architecture during this period was characterized by its symmetry and balance

The Renaissance was a period of artistic experimentation.

Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from Medieval period to early modern age.

The greatest cathedral building of the age was the rebuilding of

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

Italian Renaissance began in the late 14th century. It was an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of secular art. The focus was on realistic and humanistic art.

Renaissance art was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and deeper landscape.

As the classical Greeks believed in the harmonious development of the person through a sound mind, by the practice of athletics, the Renaissance held up the ideal of the well-rounded man, knowledgeable in a number of fields such as philosophy, science, arts, including painting and music – and who applies his knowledge to productive and creative activity

The Renaissance was a period of artistic experimentation. It brought man into a full view just like the human figure in Greek Art.

Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the early modern age. In many parts of Europe, Early Renaissance art was created in parallel with Late Medieval art. By 1500, the Renaissance style prevailed.

FAMOUS RENAISSANCE ARTWORKS AND ARTISTS

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Born: March 6, 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy

Died: February 18, 1564, Rome, Italy

He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime and greatest artists of all time.

His works are painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the famous existence.

His works as sculptor were the following:

Pieta Moses

Bacchus David

Dying slave Dawn

Dusk

Two of his best works

The Pieta and David were sculptured before he turned 30.

He also created 2 most influential works in fresco in the history of western art.

The scenes from Genesis on the ceiling.

Last judgement on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Pieta, Michelangelo approach the subject which until then had given form mostly from north of the alps, where portrayal of pain had been connected with the idea of redemption as represented by the seated Madonna holding Christ’s body

LEONARDO DI SER PIERO DA VINCI 1452-1519

Born: April 15, 1452, Anchiano

Died: May 2, 1519, Amboise, France

Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci was a painter, architect, scientist and mathematician.

He received an informal education in Latin geometry and mathematics as well

As reading and writing Italian.

He was captivated by his exploration of the nature local where he lived.

He treated his surroundings as a laboratory as well as his playground.

Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, architect, scientist and mathematician.

He was popularized in present times through the novel and movie, “Da Vinci Code”

Person to have ever lived.

His well known works were:

The Last Supper

Mona Lisa

Virgin of the rocks

The adoration of Magi

Mona Lisa stems from a Renaissance art.

Leonardo undertook to paint for Francesco del Giacondo the portrait of Mona Lisa his wife.

Mona in Italian is a polite form of address originating

As Madonna-similar to ma’am, Madame or my lady.

RAFFAELLO SANCIO DA URBINO(RAPHAEL) 1483-1520

Born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy

Died in Rome on April 6, 1520.

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.

Michelangelo, Da Vince and

Raphael formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period.

His main contribution his unique draftsman ship and compositional skills.

Famous works

The Sistine Madonna

The School of Athens

The Transfiguration

On April 6, 1520, Raphael’s 37th birthday, he died suddenly and unexpectedly of mysterious causes in Rome, Italy.

He had been working on his largest painting on canvas, The Transfiguration (commissioned in 1517), at the time of his death. When his funeral mass was held at the Vatican, Raphael's unfinished Transfiguration was placed on his coffin stand.

Commissioned by the Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the late Pope Clement VII the painting was conceived as an altar piece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France.

The subject is combined with additional episode from the Gospel in the lower part of the painting

Raphael continues to be widely regarded as the leading artistic figure of Italian High Renaissance classicism.

DONATO DI NICOLO DI BETTO BARDI( Donatello) 1386-1466

Born in Florence, Italy, around 1386.

Died December 13, 1466.

Italian sculptor Donatello was the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo (1475–1564) and was the most influential individual artist of the 15th century in Italy.

He was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence.

His friends and family gave him the nickname “Donatello.” He was the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild.

He was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence.

His friends and family gave him the nickname “Donatello.” He was the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild.

He is known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief.

His works are the following statue and relief.

1. David

2. Statue of St. George

3. Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata

4. Prophet habacus

5. The Feast of Herod.

Renaissance art is the art of calm and beauty.

Its creations are perfect-they reveal nothing forced or inhibited, uneasy or agitated.

Each forms has been born easily , free and complete.

At the time it was created, it was first known free-standing nude statue produced since ancient time.

Donatello continued his work taking on commissions from wealthy patrons of the arts. His lifelong friendship with the Medici family earned him a retirement allowance to live on the rest of his life.

He died of unknown causes on December 13, 1466, in Florence and was buried in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, next to Cosimo de' Medici. An unfinished work was faithfully completed by his student Bertoldo di Giovanni.