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Renaissance Artists 1. Giotto (1267-1337) was the first Renaissance painter. He lived in Florence. He painted frescoes painting with water colors on damp plaster. He was the first artist to create realistic paintings: Flesh-and blood people with real emotions and settings that were natural. He used light, shadow, and perspective. 2. Donatello (1386-1466) was the first Renaissance sculptor. He lived in Florence. He created the first nude sculpture since the days of ancient Greece. (David, just after he killed Goliath.) A humanist, he believed that artists should portray the dignity of the human body. 3. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a LEADING artist of the High Renaissance. He lived in Florence and Milan. He was a “Renaissance man”: He was a great painter: He painted the Mona Lisa (a portrait) and The Last Supper (Jesus and his 12 disciples). He studied science: Human anatomy, astronomy, botany, geology, and engineering. He was an inventor: In his Notebooks, he drew designs for a flying machine (helicopter), parachute, and more. 4. Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a LEADING artist of the High Renaissance. He lived in Florence and Rome. He was a great painter: He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome. It is scenes from the Bible: How God created Adam. Noah and the Flood. He was a master of human anatomy. Michelangelo’s first love was sculpture. His statue of David is the symbol of the city of Florence. His sculpture the Pieta is a larger-than-life marble statue of Mary cradling Jesus after he was crucified. He was an architect: He worked on St. Peter’s Church in Rome. Inside is the Sistine Chapel. This is the Pope’s church in the Vatican. 5. Raphael (1483-1520) was a leading artist of the Renaissance. He lived in Florence. His School of Athens is a painting of ancient Greek philosophers. The Pope sponsored Raphael and many other Italian Renaissance artists. 6. Van Eyck (1380-1441) was the first Renaissance artist in Northern Europe. He was a painter in Flanders (Belgium). He used lighting, shade, and perspective. He invented oil painting! 7. Durer (1471-1528) was a painter and block printer. He lived in Nuremberg, Germany. He etched woodcuts and turned them into prints. He was the first to speak of “artistic genius.”He painted a few portraits of himself 8. Bosch (1450-1516) was a painter. He lived in the Netherlands. He was obsessed with painting the Devil. He painted distorted people: They gave in to temptation on earth and were doomed to suffer tortures in hell. His most famous painting was The Garden of Earthly Delights. 9. Holbein (1497-1543) was a painter. He was born in Germany, but spent much of his life in England. He is one of the world’s greatest painter of portraits. He painted portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, and Henry VIII, the King of England. 10. Bruegel (1525-1569) was a painter in Antwerp and Brussels, Flanders (Belgium). A humanist, he painted realistic scenes of everyday life - especially peasants at work and at play. 11. Rembrandt (1606-1669) was a master painter. He lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His dark paintings are dramatic . . . because they are lit up with surprising flashes of light. He shows the innermost feelings of ordinary people. He is a storyteller on canvas. He painted 100 self-portraits. His most famous painting is The Night Watch. Directions: Match each statement to a painter or painters. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30) 31) He was Flemish and lived in Flanders. Today, we call it Belgium. He was Dutch and lived in the Netherlands. You might call it Holland. He was German and liked woodcuts. The same as Gutenberg. He was German, but lived in England. He invented oil paints. He etched prints. He painted a few portraits of himself. He painted 100 portraits of himself. He painted portraits of famous people. He painted realistic scenes of daily life. He painted peasants. He painted the Devil! He and Donatello had a lot in common. His paintings are dramatic: The darkness is lit up with flashes of light. He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He painted the Mona Lisa. He painted The Last Supper. He painted The School of Athens. He sculpted the Pieta - a sad scene of Mary holding Jesus. His sculpture, David, is the symbol of the city of Florence. His sculpture, the Pieta, is in St. Peter’s Church in Rome. He was one of the architects who designed St. Peter’s Church in Rome. He studied science. He designed inventions. He painted Jesus with his twelve disciples, including Judas. He painted stories from the Bible: The creation of Adam, Noah and the flood, David and Goliath, Moses and the Exodus. He was the first painter of the Renaissance. He was the first sculptor of the Renaissance. They were the two brightest stars of the High Renaissance. He is our best example of a “Renaissance man.” His Notebooks show that he was a man ahead of his time.