Identifying Artists of Different Periods and their Artworks

Classical Period

Myron
Athenian sculptor
Description
Myron of Eleutherae, working c. 480–440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-
5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to
Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher
 “Discobolus”
Statue by Myron
The Discobolus of Myron is a Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical
Period, figuring a youthful ancient Greek athlete throwing discus, about 460–450 BC.

Polykleitos
Description
Polykleitos (active ca. 450-420 B.C.), one of the great innovative Greek sculptors of the
5th century, stands alone in his concentration on the problems of the nude, male human body, for
which he evolved a standard of proportion and representation that in one way or another
influenced the subsequent development of sculpture in Western civilization.

“Doryphoros”
Sculpture by Polykleitos
 The Doryphoros of Polykleitos is one of the best-known Greek sculptures of classical
antiquity, depicting a solidly built, muscular, standing warrior, originally bearing a spear
balanced on his left shoulder.

Medieval Period

Nicola Pisano
Sculptor
Description
Nicola Pisano was an Italian sculptor whose work is noted for its classical Roman
sculptural style. Pisano is sometimes considered to be the founder of modern sculpture.

“Annunciation nativity and adoration of the shepherds”

 Cimabue
Italian painter
Description
Cimabue, also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and
designer of mosaics from Florence. Although heavily influenced by Byzantine models, Cimabue
is generally regarded as one of the first great Italian painters to break from the Italo-Byzantine
style.

“Crucifix”
The Crucifix by Cimabue at Santa Croce is a wooden crucifix, painted in distemper,
attributed to the Florentine painter and mosaicist Cimabue, one of two large crucifixes attributed
to him.
Gothic Period

Bonaventura Berlinghieri
Italian painter
Description
Bonaventura Berlinghieri was an Italian painter from Lucca, Italy, of the Gothic period.
He was son of painter Berlinghiero Berlinghieri and brother of Barone and Marco Berlinghieri.
Bonaventura painted several panels and wall-paintings at Lucca, in 1235 and 1244.

Title: DER HEILIGE FRANZISKUS

Medium: Oil, tempera and gold ground on canvas
Size: 140.5 x 74 cm. (55.3 x 29.1 in.)

Master Francke
German painter
Description
Master Francke O.P. was a North German Gothic painter and Dominican friar, born ca.
1380 in the Lower Rhine region or possibly Zutphen in the Netherlands, who died ca. 1440,
probably in Hamburg, where he was based at the end of his known career. He is called "Fratre
Francone Zutphanico" in one document. 
 “Resurrection of Christ”
1430, Kunsthalle Hamburg

Renaissance Period

Leonardo Da Vinci
Description
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath of
the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture,
architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy,
botany, paleontology, and cartography.
 “Mona Lisa”
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It
is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, and has been described as
"the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied
work of art in the world."
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Dimensions: 77 cm x 53 cm
Location: Louvre Museum (since 1797)
Created: 1503
Period: Renaissance
Genres: Portrait, Portrait painting

“Vitruvian Man”
 The Vitruvian Man is a drawing made by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in
about 1490. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the Roman architect Vitruvius.
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Dimensions: 35 cm x 26 cm
Location: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
Year: c. 1490
Period: Renaissance
Medium: Ink

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Donatello)

Description
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the
Renaissance. 

“Equestrian statue of Gattamelata”

 The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is a sculpture by Italian early Renaissance artist
Donatello, dating from 1453, located in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy, today.
Artist: Donatello
Address: Piazza del Santo, 35123 Padova PD, Italy
Created: 1453
Province: Province of Padua

Baroque Period

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Description
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his
artistic life. During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily
until his death. 

“Judith Beheading”
Artist Caravaggio
Year 1598–1599 or 1602
Medium Oil on canvas
 Dimensions 145 cm × 195 cm (57 in × 77 in)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Description
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the
world of architecture, he was, also and even more prominently, the leading sculptor of his age,
credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture.

“Apollo and Daphne”

Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized Baroque marble sculpture by Italian artist Gian
Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1622 and 1625. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome,
the work depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Modern Period

Salvador Dali
Description

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol was a
Spanish surrealist artist. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí was a skilled artist draftsman, best
known for the striking and bizarre images in his work. His painterly skills are often attributed to
the influence of Renaissance masters.

“Lobster Telephone”
Lobster Telephone is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English
poet Edward James, a leading collector of surrealist art. 
Artists: Salvador Dalí, Edward James
Dimensions: 178 mm (7.0 in) × 330 mm (13 in)
Created: 1936
Subject: Edward James
Period: Surrealism
 Fernando Amorsolo
Description
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto was one of the most important artists in the history of
painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes.
He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light.

“Dalagang Bukid”
For Amorsolo, the Dalagang Bukid was his muse of ideal Filipina beauty foregoing the
Maria Clara-typed wallflower who presents herself as a smiling and cheerful lady, despite the
labor beckoned in the agricultural plain. She is depicted sporting in the national costume of the
baro’t saya with her hair firmly held by flowing bandana to shield her, from the brightness of the
afternoon sun.
signed and dated 1927 (lower right)
oil on wood
16”x 13 1/2” (41 cm x 34 cm)