This document summarizes Renaissance painting from the 14th to 16th centuries. It describes key characteristics like realistic representations and use of techniques like perspective. It outlines the Early Renaissance, focused on dramatic perspective and idealized religious subjects. The High Renaissance was led by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, who created famous works like the Mona Lisa, The Creation of Adam, and The School of Athens. The document provides details on materials and techniques and insights on the influence of Renaissance art.

1. Renaissance Painting
14th
-16th
Century
CHARACTERISTICS
● People and objects represented as they are in reality
transmit calm and serenity.
● Characters are idealized and do not have deformations.
● Used techniques like fresco, perspective and
foreshortening to create an illusion of three dimensions
● Painters created new oil blends, allowing the
innovations of oil on canvas an easier medium to work
with than wet plaster.

2. EARLY RENAISSANCE
● Employed dramatic perspective and foreshortening.
● Idealistic portrayal of mythological or religious
subjects,and the nude painting.
● PERPECTIVE is drawing or paintings of a picture
that looks like there is a three a three dimensions. It gives
illusions to some other objects in the painting that further
from the other objects or things.
● Fresco (plural frescos or frescoes) is a technique of mural
painting executed upon freshly-laid, or wet lime plaster.

3. St. Sebastian (Mantegna)
●
St. Sebastian is the subject of
three paintings by the Italian
Early Renaissance master Andrea
Mantegna. Sebastian was
considered protector against the
plague as having been shot through
by arrows, and it was thought that
plague spread abroad through the air.
1456–1459

4. ● The fresco was painted in the
Meeting Hall of Palazzo die
Conservatoire Di Sansepolcro,
the current Civic Museum,
probably in 1467-68.
●Jesus is in the center of the
composition, portrayed in the
moment of his resurrection, as
suggested by the position of the leg
on the parapet.
The Resurrection
(Piero della Francesca)
1463–1465

5. HIGH RENAISSANCE PAINTING
● Beginning of the 16th
century and the continuation of
developing arts to look more “believable.”
● This period was led or dominated by three great
Italian artists.
Leonardo da Vinci Michael Angelo Raphael

6. Leonardo da Vinci (Vitruvian Man)
Around 1490
The Vitruvian Man was made
by Leonardo da vinci in the
year of 1490. Leonardo da
Vinci was inspired to make
this picture because of the
new age of finding out
information about the
anatomy of the human body.
This picture is accompanied
by the notes of Vitruvius.

7. ●The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or
La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, wife of Francesco
del Giocondo) is a half-length
portrait of a woman by the
Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci,
which has been acclaimed as
"the best known, the most visited,
the most written about, the most
parodied work of art in the world."
● painted between 1503 and 1506

8. "chiaroscuro"
(from the Italian for "light-dark”)
describes the prominent contrast
of light and shade in a painting,
drawing or print, and the skill
demonstrated by the artist in
management of shadows to
create the illusion of
three-dimensional forms.

9. The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
●The mural on the back wall of the dining hall of the
Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan,
Italy, was painted from 1495 to 1498. It differed from other
frescoes of the era in that da Vinci created it by using
experimental pigments directly on the dry plaster wall.

10. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
●The famous fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in
the Vatican City was painted from 1511 to 1512.
Unfortunately, Michelangelo’s masterpiece and one of
the most famous works of both High Renaissance and
religious art suffered from candle smoke damage, going
back for centuries, which caused the fresco to darken
and assume a gloomy shadow.

11. The Last Judgment
1536-1541
●The Last Judgment,is a fresco
by the Italian Renaissance
master Michelangelo executed
on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel in Vatican City. It is a
depiction of the Second
Coming of Christ and the
final and eternal Judgment
by God of all humanity.
Michelangel
o

12. The School of Athens by
Raphael (1509-1511)
●The School of Athens revels
Raphael’s interpretation of
philosophy’s a divine form
of knowledge,with Plato and
Aristotle placed in the center
of the scene,just like Jesus is
in the center of Paolo
Veronese’s The Wedding at
Cana.

13. Madonna del Prato
by Raphael
● Madonna del Prato,also known
as Madonna of the Meadow
depicts Virgin Mary looking
down to baby Jesus and his
cousin John the Baptist who
is kneeling and offering a cross
to Jesus. The painting was
created for Taddeo Taddei
and remained in the Taddei
family until 1660s when it
was sold to Ferdinand Charles,
Archduke of Austria.

14. ● The Marriage of the Virgin,
also known as Lo Sposalizio,
is an oil painting by Italian High
Renaissance artist Raphael.
Completed in 1504 for the
Franciscan church of San
Francesco, Città di Castello,
the painting depicts a marriage
ceremony between Mary
and Joseph. It changed hands
several times before settling in
1806 at the Pinacoteca di Brera.
The Marriage of the Virgin
(Raphael)

15. Assumption of the Virgin
●Assumption of the Virgin is
a large oil painting by Italian
Renaissance artist Titian,
executed in 1516–1518.
It is located on the high altar
in the Basilica di Santa Maria
Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice,
being the largest altarpiece
in the city.
TITIAN

16. INSIGHTS
As what I have learned renaissance arts are
very unique and Beautiful. I never see some of
those paintings or structure until I search some of it.
Before when I see a painting in book or even in a wall,
I never paid attention on it. It didn't make me wonder also
how it happened or how the artist do it but now I
realized that arts has a big influence in my life
and in my faith. I hope someday I will see those paintings
in my two eyes like the The Last Judgment Painting of
Michaelangelo in Sistine Chapel in the Vatican city it
repent it the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ so
we should repent and surrender our souls. Amen.