QUARTER 2 ARTS 9

1. QUARTER 2 :
ARTS 9

2. ARTS OF THE
RENAISSANCE AND
BAROQUE PERIODS

3. GIOTTO DI BONDONE
◦- He was born in July 1266 in
FLORENCE, ITALY
-was the first of the Italian masters to
draw from nature-an artistic revolution
that became fundamental today.

4. GIOTTO

5. ◦- his style abolishes the flat medieval
technique and Rigid Byzantine imagery
by drawing true-to life scenes of people.
◦He drew saints with human figures
although he had struggled to make
them three-dimensional.

6. CIMABUE
-an ITALIAN painter and mosaic designer .
When Cimabue went to Assisi ,Giotto was with
him. They painted large frescoes in the newly
built Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
-They decorated the interior of the church with
the episodes of the life of Saint Francis.

7. CIMABUE

8. FRESCO
-a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet
plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors
penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it
dries
-the fresco method of painting, used in Roman
times and by the great masters of the Italian
Renaissance including Giotto, Masaccio, and
Michelangelo

9. Homeage of a Simple Man
◦ Artist: Giotto
◦ Period: Italian
Renaissance painting
◦ Created: 1299
◦ Genre: Christian art

10. St.Francis giving
his mantle to a
poor man

11. Dream of the Palace
by : Giotto
Original Title: Sogno del
palazzo
Date: 1297 - 1299
Style: Proto Renaissance
Series: Legend of St. Francis
Genre: religious painting
Media: fresco
Location: Basilica of Saint
Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy

12. - When Giotto was around 36-38 years old, he
moved in the town of Padua to take the most
influential artwork in his life- the decoration of
the Scrovegni Chapel or the Arena Chapel.

13. Scrovegni
Chapel

14. 1334
-He was designated as Magnus Magister or
“ Great Master”. He was also appointed as
architect and chief of public works in Florence.
-He became the master builder of the Florence
Cathedral and designer of the church’s bell
tower

15. 1337
- Giotto died in Florence. His
legacy brought him great fame
as other artists even named him
the “ Father of the
Renaiisance”

16. Donatello di
Niccolo di Betto
Bardi

17. Donatello di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
-is one of the greatest Florentine sculptors and
considered as one of the most influential
artists of the fifteenth century
-He was born around 1386 in Florence,Italy.
-His father , Niccolo was a member of the
Florentine Wool Combers Guild

18. -was educated in the house of the Martelli
Family, a wealthy and influential family of
bankers and art patrons in Florence who was
tied with the Medici Family.
-He received his artistic training in a goldsmith’s
workshop where he learned metallurgy and
fabrication of other substances

19. - He worked for
Lorenzo Ghiberti, a
well-known sculptor
and goldsmith.
Donatello learned the
Gothic style of
sculpturing under
Ghiberti .

20. 1408
-He returned to Florence to work in the
Cathedral of Florence, in the same year he
carved the first David.
-This marble sculpture followed the Gothic
style , emphasizing long graceful lines and an
expressionless face.

21. - A year later, he worked on the
marble sculpture of St.John the
Evangelist , which is a colossal
seated and disproportional
figure of the saint.

22. St.John the Evangeli

23. - His next project was
the statue of St.Mark –
which is displayed
inside the museum of
the Orsanmichele
Church.

24. 1440
- He created the second David .
This time instead of marble ,
Donatello used bronze. Cosimo de’
Medici , an art patron,
commissioned the statue.

25. David(1408-1409)

26. -He was able to create artworks that
show emotions such as sorrow or
suffering and joy.
-In 1455, he completed the wooden
sculpture , the Penitent Magdalene. It
represented a gaunt-looking Mary
Magdalene.

27. The Penitent
Magdalene is a wooden
sculpture of Mary
Magdalene by the
Italian Renaissance
sculptor Donatello,
created around 1453–
1455.

28. -His lifelong relationship with the
Medici family earned him a retirement
allowance to live on the rest of his life.
-He died on December 13,1466 in
Florence and was buried in the
of San Lorenzo