the artist and arts of the renaissance period

1. RENAISSANCE PERIOD
AND ARTISTS

2. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CONSIST OF
THREE MAJOR PHASES
• The Early Renaissance
• The High Renaissance
• The Late Renaissance

3. • The Early Renaissance
 Sculptor Donatello
 Architect Filippo Brunelleschi
 Painter Masaccio
Early Renaissance covered most 15th century art

4. • The High Renaissance
 Leonardo Da Vinci
 Donato Bramante
 Michelangelo
 Raphael
 Titian

5. Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Born on March 6, 1475
• His name means “Archangel Michael”
• He was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, poet
and sculptor of the Renaissance
• He and Leonardo da Vinci were often called
“Renaissance man” which means a person having
great talent in many areas.

6. He went to Florence where the richest, most powerful family
was the Madici family who were supporter of arts.
They owned an academy which taught the
philosophy called Humanism

7. An important contract of Michelangelo was to
make a “Pieta,” a statue of Virgin Mary
mourning over the dead body of Jesus, her son.
This became the most famous Pieta ever made which
can be found in Saint Peter’s Basilica

8. In 1499, Michelangelo was contracted to do the statue of
David . He carved it which took him three years to
complete. The “Statue of David” is one of his most
famous work during Renaissance period.

9. For almost four years (1508 -1512), Michelangelo painted the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The chapel was long and wide with curved ceiling.
Twelve “pendentives,” fan-shaped pieces of wall held up the
ceiling. He painted seven men prophets from the Old
Testament and five women prophets from the Classical worlds.

10. Michelangelo was called back by Pope Clement VII to
paint the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel
with a huge scene of “The Last Judgement”. He
worked on it from 1534- 1541

11. Michelangelo was buries in the
Basilica of Santa Croce (Church of the
Holy Cross) in Florence.
On his tomb sit three mourning
figures symbolizing architecture,
painting and sculpture.

12. Some of his great works are:
• Statue of Moses
• An Angel
• The Madonna of the stairs

13. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519)
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Was noted in varied fields of the arts and science.
He was an:
• Architect
• Geologist
• Inventor
• Anatomist
• Botanist
• Catographer
• Mathematician
• Musician
• Painter
• Sculptor
• Writer

14. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519)
His genius identified him as the Italian Renaissance polymath
His notable works are:
• Lady with an Ermine
• Mona lisa
• The Last Supper
• The Vitruvian Man

15. Raphael (1483-1520)
He started as an apprentice in 1507. in his teens, he was tasked to
paint for the Church of San Nicola in Castelo
His notable works are:
• The Crucifixion
• The Triumph of Galatea
• The Wedding of the Virgin
• Saint George and the Dragon
• Aristotle and Plato at the Center
• School of Athens

16. Donatello (1386- 1466)
He was an early Italian sculptor from Florence during the
Renaissance, is partly noted for his work in bas-relief.
His notable works are:
• Statue of St. John the Baptist
• Saint John the Evangelist