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Renaissance Period (1400-1600)
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. The focus
was on realistic and humanistic art.
Renaissance art was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and deeper landscape.
Renaissance painters depicted real-life figures and their sculptures were naturalistic portraits of human beings. Architecture during this period
was characterized by its symmetry and balance. As the classical Greeks believed in the harmonious development of the person through a
sound mind, by the practice of athletics, the Renaissance held up the ideal of the well-rounded person, knowledgeable in a number of fields
such as philosophy, science, arts, including painting and music – and who applies his/her knowledge to productive and creative activity.
The Renaissance was a period of artistic experimentation. It brought people into a full view just like the human figures in Greek
Art.Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the early modern age. In many parts of Europe, Early
Renaissance art was created in parallel with Late Medieval art. By 1500, the Renaissance style prevailed. The greatest cathedral building of the
age was the rebuilding of St.
Famous Renaissance Artworks and Artists
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 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. Among his outstanding works as sculptor were the following: Pieta, Bacchus, Moses, David, Dying Slave, Dawn and Dusk.
Two of his best known works, The Pieta and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty.
He also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and the Last
Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
In Pieta, Michelangelo approached the subject which until then had beengiven 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.
Michelangelo convinces himself and his spectators of the divine quality and the significance of these figures by means of earthly and perfect
beauty, but of course, these are human standards.
Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452- 1519)
Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. He was popularized in present times through the novel and movie,
“Da Vinci Code.” He was known as the ultimate “Renaissance man”because of his intellect, interest, talent and his expression of humanist and
classical values. He was also considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person to have
ever lived.
His well known works were: The Last Supper (the most reproduced religious painting of all time), and the Mona Lisa (the most famous and
most parodied portrait). His other works were: The Vitruvian Mar, The Adoration of the Magi, and the Virgin of the Rocks. (Wikipedia)
“Mona Lisa” stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote, “Leonardo undertook to paint for Francesco del
Giocondo the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife.” Mona, in Italian, is a polite form of address originating as Madonna- similar to Ma’am,
madamme, or My Lady in English. This became Madonna and its contraction Mona. The title of the painting, though traditionally spelled
“Mona”, is also commonly spelled in Modern Italian as “Monna Lisa”.
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 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. His main contributions to art were his unique
draftsmanship and compositional skills. His famous works were: The Sistine Madonna, The School of Athens, and The Transfiguration.
The Transfiguration was Raphael’s last painting which he worked on up to his death. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the late
Pope Clement VII, the painting was conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in France. The painting exemplifies Raphael’s
development as an artist and the culmination of his career. The subject was combined with an additional episode from the Gospel in the
lower part of the painting.
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. His works included the following statues and relief: David, Statue of St. George,
Equestrian MonumeHerod. Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc, and The Feast of Herod.
Renaissance art is the art of calm and beauty. Its creations are perfect-they reveal nothing forced or inhibited, uneasy or agitated. Each form
has been born easily, free and complete. Everything breathes satisfaction, and we are surely not mistaken in seeing in this heavenly calm and
content the highest artistic expression and spirit of that age.

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Renaissance Period (1400-1600)

Famous Renaissance Artworks and Artists

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)

Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452- 1519)

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello) (1386- 1466)

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