Download The Big Three: Italian High Renaissance

“The Big Three”
 Italian High
Renaissance
 Leonardo Da Vinci
 Michelangelo
Buonarroti
 Raffaello Sanzio
 Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
 Donatello
The High Renaissance
 The 4th generation of Renaissance artists
 Culmination of talent
 Artists now had the confidence, tools, technology and
training to produce their own works
 Convergence of talent
 “A wealth of talent” concentrated in the same area
during a short period of time
Fast Facts
 Late 1400’s - Early 1500’s
 Began after the death of Lorenzo de Medici and with
the production of Leonardo’s most important works
 Ended with the death of Raphael
 Occurred mostly in Rome
 Many more Renaissance artists…
 Big 3 are the most famous
Characteristics
 Definite light source
 Naturalism
 Neo-Platonism
 No halos
 Spatial
illusion/Perspective
 Sense of stability and
order
 Increase in private
commission
 Less reliance on the
church/royalty for work
Leonardo Da Vinci
 1452-1519
 Trained in Florence
 Best known as painter
 Scientist,
mathematician,
engineer, inventor,
anatomist, sculptor,
musician, writer
 “Renaissance Man”
Leonardo Da Vinci
 Painted beautiful woman
 Most whom seemed to have
a secret
 “Mona Lisa”
 Disliked Michelangelo
 Mentor to Raphael
 Commissioned by Pope Leo X
The Last Supper (1498)
Vitruvian
Man (1490)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
 1475-1564
 Trained in Florence
 Best known as painter and sculpture
 Architecture and poetry
 Deep belief in God
Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Painted woman who
looked a lot like men
 Disliked Leonardo
 Somewhat reluctant
mentor to Raphael
 Was commissioned
by 6 different popes
David
(1501-1504)
Raphael Sanzio
 1483-1520
 Trained in Umbria
 Best known as painter
 Architect
 Studied human anatomy to
extent that figures were
proportionately accurate
 Believed in God, but didn’t
alienate other religions
Raphael Sanzio
 Painted woman
 Gentle, calm and
beautiful
 Idolized Leonardo and
got along with
Michelangelo
 Was commissioned by
two popes
The School Of Athens (1510-1511)