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The Art of the Renaissance
Modern World History
Renaissance vs. Medieval Art
Medieval Art
Renaissance Art
• Primary focus was on the
church & religion
• Focus was primarily on
individuals, followed by
Christianity & worldly
matters
• Realism & Expression
• Classicism
• Nudity
• 3 dimensional & life-like
• Geometric arrangement
• Egg Tempura & Oil Paint
used
• Warfare themes were
secondary
Disproportionate
Unrealistic
Faces are all the same
2 dimensional, flat, and
dull
• Tempura Paint was used
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Renaissance
Medieval
Humanism
• Cultural & Educational Reform
• Main goal was to create citizens capable of
engaging in civil life by communicating eloquently
• Celebrated the individual & unique talents
Renaissance Artists
• embraced ideals of Greece and Rome in art
• Focus on: realistic , human & emotional
expression
• Frescos
– Painting done on wet plaster
– gave depth to the paintings
• Sculpture emphasized realism & the human form
• Architecture reached new heights of design
Famous Artists of the Renaissance
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael)
• Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Donatello)
• Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect,
poet, and engineer
• Most Famous Works Include:
• La Pieta
• David
• Sistine Chapel Ceiling
La Pieta
Housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
La Pieta 1499
Marble Sculpture
Creation of Eve
Separation of Light and Darkness
Creation of Adam
The Last Judgment
David
Michelangelo
created his
masterpiece
David in 1504.
Sistine Chapel
About a year after creating
David, Pope Julius II summoned
Michelangelo to Rome to work
on his most famous project, the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Moses
Leonardo da Vinci
• Italian Renaissance polymath:
painter, sculptor, architect,
musician, scientist, mathematician,
engineer, inventor, anatomist,
geologist, cartographer, botanist and
writer
• described as the archetype of the
Renaissance Man
• He is widely considered to be one of
the greatest painters of all time
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Notebooks
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Raphael)
• His work is admired for its clarity of form
and ease of
• Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da
Vinci, form the traditional trinity of great
masters of the Renaissance
2 Angels
The School of Athens
Pythagoras
Plato and Aristotle
Socrates
Raphael (back)
Euclid
Zoroaster & Ptolemy
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
(Donatello)
• early Renaissance artist and sculptor from Florence
Sandro Botticelli
• an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance
• From Florence
• under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici
The Birth of Venus
Primavera
Renaissance Art & Pop Culture