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Renaissance Art
• An overview of
early to late
Renaissance
Artists and their
works
• Put together by
Deborah Burk
Characteristics of Renaissance art
• More realistic v.
stylistic than medieval
art seen on the right
• Artists studied
anatomy from
cadavers and
celebrated the beauty
of the human form
• Often landscapes and
classical themes in the
background
• More secular subjects
Artists of the Renaissance
Italian Artists:
• Donatello
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raphael
Michelangelo
• Sculptor
• Painter
• Architect
• Known for realistic, muscular
portrayals
Michelangelo
“David”
“The Pieta”
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Adam after creation: part of the Sistine Chapel
A detail of Adam and God from the
Sistine Chapel, Vatican
St. Peter’s
Dome in
Rome
Leonardo da Vinci
• Also a “Renaissance man” of many
talents.
• A sculptor, painter, and inventor
• Best known for works like the “Mona
Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” with
realistic portrayals gained by his
knowledge of anatomy.
The
Mona
Lisa
“The Last Supper”
“Flying machine”
Anatomical
sketches
Ginevra de' Benci
“Selfportrait”
Artists of the Northern
Renaissance
• Jan and Hubert van Eyck
• Peter Bruegel
• Peter Paul Rubens
Jan van Eyck
(some think he is the same as Hubert)
• Portrayal of townspeople
• Used rich colors
• Many secular themes
“Giovanni
Arnolfini
and His
Bride”
(Green was the
color of fertility,
and the bride is
slouching to imitate
pregnancy to show
her willingness to
bear children)
“Portrait of
a man”
(Selfportrait?)
Hubert van Eyck
• Some think Jan and Hubert
were the same man
“The
Crucifixion”
“The Three Marys at the Tomb”
“Portrait of Jan de
Leeuw”
Pieter Brugel
• Best known for his village
scenes; peasant life
• Great detail
“January”
“the dance”
“The tower of Babel”
Peter Paul Rubens
• Portrayed pagan figures
• Blended realism of Flemish
painters with classical themes
on large canvasses.
‘The judgment of Paris”
A
representation
of the manger
scene
William Shakespeare
• Writer
• From England
• Wrote in vernacular
(English), not Latin
• Invented over 1700
words (bedroom, zany,
etc.)
Miguel Cervantes
• Writer from Spain
• Wrote “Don Quixote”
– 1st modern novel that
was read for fun!!