This document provides an overview of Renaissance and Baroque art periods, key characteristics, and famous artists. The Renaissance period saw a focus on realistic and humanistic art like accurate anatomy and perspective. Famous Renaissance artists mentioned include Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Donatello. The Baroque period used drama, tension, and grandeur in painting, sculpture and architecture. Notable Baroque artists discussed are Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Diego Velasco.

1. ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE
AND BAROQUE
Rey C. Bautista
MAPEH Teacher

2. RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
The period of economic progress.
Italian Renaissance began in the late 14th century. It was the era
of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of
secular art.
The focus was on realistic and humanistic art.
Characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and
deeper landscape.

3. RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
Renaissance painters depicted real-life figures and their
sculptures were naturalistic portraits of human being.
It marks the transition of Europe from medieval period to
early modern age.

4. FAMOUS RENAISSANCE ARTWORKS
AND ARTIST

5. MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO
BUONARROTI SIMONY (1475-1564)
-Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
-considered as the greatest living artist in his
lifetime and ever since then he was one of the
greatest artists of all time.

6. PIETA
In Pieta, Michelangelo approached the
subject which until then had been given
form mostly from North of the Alps, where
the portrayal of pain had always been
connected with the idea of redemption as
represented by the seated Madonna
holding Christ’s body in her arms.

7. BACCHUS

8. DAVID

9. LEONARD DI SER PIERO DA VINCI
(1452-1519)
-painter, architect, scientist and mathematician.
-He is known as the ultimate ”Renaissance man” because
of his intellect, interest, talent and his expression of
humanist and classical arts.
-the greatest painter of all time and perhaps the most
diversely talented person to have ever lived.

10. MONALISA

11. THE LAST SUPPER

12. VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS

13. RALAELLO SANZIO DA URBINO
(RAPHAEL) (1483-1520)
-an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
period.
His work was admired for its clarity of form and ease of
composition and for its visual achievement of interpreting
the Divine and incorporating Christian doctrines.

14. THE TRANSFIGURATION
-Raphael’s last painting
on which he worked on
up to his death.

15. THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS

16. DONATO DI NICCOLO DI BETTO
BARDI (DONATELLO) (1386-1466)
-he was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from
Florence.
-he is known for his work in bas-relief, a form of
shallow relief sculpture.

17. DAVID BY DONATELLO

18. THE STATUE OF ST. GEORGE

19. BAROQUE ART (1600-1800)

20. BAROQUE ART
-derived from Portuguese word “barocco” which means
“irregularly shaped pearl or stone”
-It describes a fairly complex idioms and focuses on
painting, sculpture, as well as architecture.
-it was period of artistic styles in exaggerated motion,
drama, tension, and grandeur. The style started in Rome,
Italy, and spread to most of Europe.

21. BAROQUE PAINTING
-illustrated key elements of Catholic
dogma, either directly in Biblical works or
indirectly in imaginary or symbolic work.

22. BAROQUE SCULPTURE
-typically larger than life size, is marked by a
similar sense of dynamic movement, along with
an active use of space.

23. BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE
-designed to create spectacle and illusion. Thus the
straight lines of the Renaissance were replaced with
flowing curves.

24. FAMOUS BAROQUE ARTWORKS
AND ARTISTS

25. MICHELANGELO MERISI OR AMERUGHI
DA CARAGGIO (1571-1610)
-he was an Italian artist who wanted to deviate from the classical
masters of the renaissance.
-He was outcast in his society, because of his own actions and lack
of modesty and reverence for religious subjects in his own painting.
-he started out as a specialist in his painting of still life, especially of
fruits.

26. CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL

27. GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (1598-
1680)
-an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist.
He practiced architecture and sculpture, painting, stage
design, and was also a playwright.
-last in the list of the universal geniuses.

28. ECSTASY OF ST. TERESA

29. PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640)
-a Flemish (Belgium and Dutch) Baroque painter.
-known for mythical and figurative subjects, landscape,
portraits and Counter-Reformation altarpieces.

30. SAMSON AND DELILAH

31. LANDSCAPE WITH A TOWER

32. REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN
RIJN (1606.1669)
-Dutch realist, painter, and etcher (produce a pattern design)
-one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European arts.
-he followed no particular faith, but was interested in spiritual
values and often chooses religious subjects.
-he often painted himself.

33. SELF-PORTRAIT

34. DIEGO VELASCO (1599-1660)
-he is one of the finest masters of composition and one of
the most important painters of the Spanish Golden.
-he worked out solutions to pictorial problems of design
that transcend the style of any period.
-the passion for still life frequently emerges in Velasquez’s
art.

35. “LAS MENINAS-(THE MAIDS OF
HONOUR)”

36. THE SURRENDER OF BREDA