Focus on the artworks of renaissance artist Leonardo da Vnci and Michelangelo

1. Renaissance Paintings
Focus on
Leonardo Da Vinci &
Michelangelo

2. •Renaissance art is the paintings
sculpture and decorative art of
renaissance period
•The wave of renaissance art was
emerged in Italy in around 1400
century.
•Painter and architect Giotto di
Bondone(1267-1337). One of the
forerunners of the Renaissance.
•Renaissance art was developed
in parallel with developments in
philosophy, literature, music and
science.
Giotto di Bondone(1267-1337)

3. •In renaissance period the laws of liner perspective were
discovered and employed in paintings
•It gives the fullest sense of a painting
•Church was no longer the only savior of the artists
•Painters were started backed by the rich nobles and
aristocrats
•Along with biblical themed artworks, nonreligious themed
paintings became popular as subject matter of paintings
•The technique of oil painting was introduced in 15th
century

4. Florence was the center hub of renaissance art. Most of the
renaissance artists were in Florence and were backed by the
church and rich Florentines

5. Florentine artists of Renaissance
1.Da Vinci 2.Michelangelo 3. Raphael 4.Titian 5.Sandro Botticelli
6. Caravaggio

6. Leonardo da Vinci

7. Leonardo da Vinci
•Da Vinci is the perfect personification of “renaissance man”
•He was painter, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer
and inventor
•His paintings started “high renaissance” in Italy
•As a thinker he was very much ahead of his time
•Da Vinci was naturalist
•He interpreted nature through his paintings
•His drawings also featured anatomy and numerous
innovative engineering ideas.
•Most citable da Vinci invention are parachute, flying
machine, machine gun, armored tank, self propelled car and
robotic knight.

8. Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks demonstrates his
interest in nature

9. Mona Lisa, Leonardo da
Vinci's most renowned
masterpiece. With her
secret smile Mona Lisa
still puzzles us.

10. The Last Supper is Vinci's study of psychological reactions.
Last Supper depicts Jesus Christ tells His followers that one of
them will kill him. In Last Supper Vinci wanted to portray the
mixed emotions of surprise, horror, and guilt of human kind.

11. Vinci's drawing the Vitruvian Man depicts ideal human
proportions with geometry described by the ancient
Roman architect Vitruvius.

12. Vinci's innovative ideas were 500 years ahead of his time. Da Vinci's Notebook
contains his advanced innovative drawings about 1.Self propelled cart 2. Flying
machine 3.Parachute 4. Armored tank 5.Robotic knight 6. Triple barrel cannon

13. Drawing of the human fetus in
uterus from Da Vinci's anatomical
notebooks
Da Vinci's anatomical study of
shoulder and neck

14. Leonardo's Aerial Screw
Though the first actual helicopter wasn’t built until the 1940s, it is
believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches from the late fifteenth
century were the predecessor to the modern day flying machine

15. Michelangelo

16. •Painter, sculpture, poet and
architect Michelangelo was
another towering figure of high
renaissance
•Unlike Leonardo he was an
idealist
•At the center of his all paintings
is the human figure
•His human figures are powerful
colossal and magnificent
•Michelangelo applied classical
Greek style of painting in his
various biblical themed artwork.
David is a masterpiece of Michelangelo created between 1501 and 1504
represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence

17. The last judgment

18. Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the
Sistine chapel in Rome from 1508 to 1512
depicting scenes from the book of Genesis.

19. The Pietà is a subject in Christian art
depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the
dead body of Jesus
The Moses (1513–1515) housed in the
church of San Pietro in Rome. in 1505
Commissioned by Pope Julius II for his tomb

20. Michelangelo's The creation of Adam depicts philosophical
questions into the meaning of life and the universe.
It represents renaissance realism at its height .

21. •Renaissance architecture had its roots in
the past
•In renaissance period Painting style,
sculpture and new building style was
eclectic
• Italian renaissance art got inspiration
from Greek gothic and ancient roman
style
•Renaissance artists wanted to rediscover
the hidden mysterious of the soul and
the universe and the were worshiper of
beauty

22. The Villa Rotonda a
highly influential
renaissance
architecture drew for
inspiration on the
Roman pantheon. It
shows renaissance art
actually rejuvenated
the past and searched
inspiration in the past
Pantheon in Rome was
built in 118-128 AD

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