The document discusses the Italian Renaissance period beginning in the late 14th century. It was an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement characterized by realistic and humanistic art with accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and detailed landscapes. The document also provides biographies of five famous Renaissance artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, and their most notable works.

2. • Renaissance was the period of
economic progress.
• The period stirred enthusiasm for the
study of ancient philosophy and
artistic values.
• Italian Renaissance began in the late
14th century.
• It was an era of great artistic and
intellectual achievement with the
birth of secular art.

3. • The focus was on realistic and
humanistic art.
• Renaissance art was characterized by
accurate anatomy, scientific
perspective, and deeper landscape.

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6. Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Leonardo
da Vinci
Donatello
di Betto
Bardi
Raffaello
Sanzio

7. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (1475-1564)
• Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter,
architect, and poet.
• He was considered the greatest living artist in his
lifetime, and ever since then he was considered
as one of the greatest artists of all time.
• A number of his works in paintings, sculpture,
and architecture rank among the famous in
existence.

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9. Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452- 1519)
• Leonardo Da Vinci was a 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 values.
• He is widely considered to be one of the
greatest painters of all time and perhaps the
most diversely talented person to have ever
lived.

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12. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)
(1483-1520)
• Raphael was 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 the interpreting the Divine
and incorporating Christian doctrines.
• Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo
da Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of
great masters of that period.

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14. Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi
(Donatello) (1386- 1466)
• Donatello was one of the Italian great
artists of the period.
• He was an early Renaissance Italian
sculptor from Florence.
• He is known for his work in bas- relief, a
form of shallow relief sculpture.

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