Renaissance

The style of painting, sculpture and decorative arts identified with the Renaissance emerged in Italy
in the late 14th century; it reached its zenith in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Characteristics:

 realism
 perspective
 light and shade
 emphasis on human figures
 Humanism

FAMOUS PAINTERS
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its
clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human
grandeur.

Born: 1483, Urbino, Italy

Died: 6 April 1520, Rome, Italy

WORKS:

 The School of Athens

 Transfiguration
 The Sistine Madonna
 The Triumph of Galatea

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting,
sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology,
astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

Born: 15 April 1452, Anchiano, Italy

Died: 2 May 1519, Clos Lucé, Amboise, France

WORKS:

 Mona Lisa
 The Last Supper
 Vitruvian Man
 Annunciation

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the
High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the
development of Western art.

Born: 6 March 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy

Died: 18 February 1564, Rome, Italy

WORKS:

 Battle of Cascina
 The Creation of Adam

Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early
Renaissance.

Born: 1 March 1445, Florence, Italy

Died: 17 May 1510, Florence, Italy

WORKS:
 The Birth of Venus
 Adoration of the Magi of 1475
 Holy Trinity

Titian
Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He
was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.

Born: 1488, Pieve di Cadore, Italy

Died: 27 August 1576, Venice, Italy

WORKS:
 Assumption of the Virgin
 Bacchus and Ariadne
 Diana and Actaeon