This document provides information about several important artists from the Renaissance period in Italy. It discusses Giotto di Bondone as the first Italian master to draw from nature, revolutionizing art. Cimabue was Giotto's teacher and they painted frescoes for the Basilica of St. Francis together. The document also describes Donatello, one of the greatest Florentine sculptors who worked under Lorenzo Ghiberti and created famous works like David. Finally, it outlines the life of Leonardo da Vinci who apprenticed under Verrocchio and produced masterpieces such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa through his mastery of techniques and interest in science.

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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

30. LEONARDO
DA VINCI

31. -was born on April 15, 1452.
-He was son of a lawyer and a peasant . His
wonderful mind began to shine early. He love
to examine the formations of rocks and to
follow the courses of rivers.
-He was captivated by the flowers, faces and
flying birds.
-He also excelled in mathematics and loved
drawings and modeling figures in clay.

32. -Around the age of 14, he was the
star pupil of renowed painter and
sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio.
-Da Vinci learned from Verrochio
different techniques and remained
with him until Da Vinci was 25 years
old.

33. St.Jerome in the Wilderness
Saint Jerome in the
Wilderness -is an
unfinished painting by the
Italian Renaissance artist
Leonardo da Vinci, dated c.
1480–1490. The
composition of the
painting has been drafted
in monochrome onto the
primed wooden pane

34. THE
ADORATION OF
THE MAGI

35. Virgin of the Rocks
(1483-1486)in Paris

36. study of the fetus
in the womb

37. Study of the Heart

38. Vitruvian Man

39. The Last Supper(1520)

40. Mona Lisa(1503)