Arts of the Renaissance Period

RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
• Renaissance-was the period of economic progress. The period stirred enthusiasm
for 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.
• Renaissance art was characterized by accurate anatomy , scientific perspective,
and deeper landscape.
• Renaissance painters depicted real-life figures and their sculpture and balance.

FAMOUS RENAISSANCE ARTWORKS
AND ARTIST AND THEIR SCULPTURE

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.

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 represent 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.

BACCHUS(1496-1497)Is a marble sculpture by the Italian High
Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and
poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat
over-size and depicts Bacchus the Roman
god of wine, in a reeling pose suggestive of
drunkenness.
Bacchus is depicted with rolling eyes, his
staggering body almost teetering off the rocky
outcrop on which he stands. Sitting behind
him is a faun, who eats the bunch of grapes
slipping out of Bacchus's left hand. With its
swollen breast and abdomen, both the
slenderness of a young man and the
fleshiness and roundness of woman.

DYING SLAVE-IN
• contrast to the active struggle of the Rebellious Slaver ,Dying Slave seems to be sinking into a
deep sleep. Far from dying, the figure in Michelangelo’s Dying Slave seems to be abandoning
himself to the effects of an intoxicant. Little resistance is shown in the silky contours of the
arched back, extended left arms, and relaxed abdomen.
• Michelangelo visualized the figures as imprisoned in the huge blocks of marble, and only by
carefully removing the excess stone could he free them. In their creation, and in their final
impact, the two slaves may symbolized the soul’s struggle against the bonds of temptation and
sin.

DAWN
Dawn is the only female nude Michelangelo
ever sculpted. A youthfully smooth, yet powerful
body turns towards the observer. He features
are by no means serene: the dark eyes are
deep set in their shadowy sickest. She wears a
turban and a band around her chest in the style
of slaves’ garments.

DUSK
• In the spirit of an allegory of time, the deceased were coupled with figures
representing the times of the day whose gender was determined by Italian
grammar, The thoughtful figures of Dusk and Dawn are endowed with soft
outlines as they gracefully adorn the edge of the sarcophagus.

LEONARDODI SER PIERODA 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 is known as the ultimate “Renaissance
man” because of his intellect, interest,
talent, and his expression of humanist and
classical values.

THE LAST SUPPER
The Last Supper is a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci
in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of
the world's most famous paintings.
(the most reproduced religious painting of all time)

MONA LISA
• The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait
of a woman by the Italian artist
Leonardo da Vinci, which has been
acclaimed as "the best known, the most
visited, the most written about, the most
sung about, the most parodied work of
art in the world
(the most famous and most parodied portrait)

THE VIRTRUVIAN MAR
The Vitruvian Mar is a pen and ink drawing done on paper
with a wash over metal-point accompanied by handwritten
notes. In the drawing , two male figures are superimposed
upon each other. The figures are shown with arms and legs
extended in differing degrees of extension. One figure
shows the legs slightly apart and the arms extended straight
out from the shoulders. The other figure shows the legs
moderately spread and the arms extended partway above
the shoulders. In both figures, the head and torso are
completely superimposed. The male figures are inscribed
within a circle and a square, showing the geometric
proportion of the human body.

THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
From the Matthean Vulgate Latin section A Magis Adoratur is the name traditionally given to
the subject in the Nativity if Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings,
especially in the West, having found Jesus by following star, lay before him gifts of gold,
frankincense, and myrrh, and workship him. On entering the house, they saw the child with
Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage.

RAFFAELLO SANZIO DA URBINO
Raphael was an Italian painter and
architect of the High Renaissance Period.
His works was admired for its clarity of
forms and ease of composition and for its
visual achievement of the interpreting the
Divine and incorporating Christian
doctrines.
URBINO(Raphael) (1483-1520)

THE SISTINE MADONNA
The Madonna holds her child as she floats on
a swirling carpet of clouds, she is flanked by
St.Sixtus and St. Barbara. At the fort of the
painting are two angels (cherubs) who gaze in
whistfull contemplation. There has been lots of
speculation about the sadness, or even
petrified expressions on the face of the Virgin
and the infant Jesus.

THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS
Refers to a famous fresco painted by Raphael in
the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The fresco
was painted between 1510 and 1511 and is one
of four frescoes painted by Raphael in the rooms
now known as the “Stanze di Raffaello”. School of
Athens was the second fresco completed in the
room and depicts Raphael’s interpretation of
philosophy as a branch of knowledge. Showing a
gathering of Greek philosophers engaged in
various activities, the fresco is considered a
primes example of High Renaissance art and
considered Raphael's masterpiece.

THE TRANSFIGURATION
Of Jesus is an event reported in the New Testament when Jesus is transfigured and
becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.

DONATO DI NICCOLO DI BETTO BARDI
Was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence.
He studied classical sculpture, and used this to
develop a fully Renaissance style in sculpture,
whose periods in
Rome, Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of
Italy a long and productive career. He worked in
stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax, and had
several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical
number. Though his best-known works were mostly
statues in the round, he developed a new, very
shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a
good deal of his output was larger architectural
reliefs.
(Donatello) (1386-1466)

DAVID STATUE
• is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created
between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo.
• It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a
standing male nude. The statue represents
the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art
of Florence.Originally commissioned as one of a
series of statues of prophets to be positioned along
the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral,
the statue was placed instead in a public square,
outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic
government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8
September 1504.

STATUE OF ST.GEORGE
• Donatello carved his statue of St. George for the guild
of armorers and sword makers in Florence. Like the
statue of St. Mark, the statue of St. George was
destined for the guild’s niche in the building
of Orsanmichele. Because the guild was of average
size, it could only afford a statue of marble, rather than
of bronze.
• St. George was the patron saint of the armorer’s guild
and was known as a military figure, one who was well-
known in the Byzantine East, but who was also known
by the Crusaders who battled Muslim forces in the Holy
Land. A popular tale involving St. George defeating the
dragon came to be known through the collection of
stories called the Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea) in
the late thirteenth century.

EQUESTRIAN MONUMENT OF GATTAMELATA
Is a sculpture by Italian early Renaissance artist Donatello,
dating from 1453 located in the Piazza del Santo in Padua,
Italy, today. It portrays the Renaissance condottiero Erasmo
da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly
under the Republic of Venice, which ruled Padua at the
time.

THE FOREST OF HEROD
• For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its breadth
fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the
pillars.
• he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went to one shield: and the
king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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