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Pieta Moses
Dying Slave
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
The Vitruvian Man
The Sistine Madonna
The School of Athens
The Transfiguration
David
Statue of St. George
Prophet Habacuc
The Feast of Herod

Renaissance Period (1400-1600)

Renaissance was the period of economic progress. The period stirred enthusiasm for the study
of ancient philosophy and artistic values. Italian Renaissance began in the late 14th century. It
was an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of secular art. The focus
was on realistic and humanistic art.
Famous Renaissance Artworks and Artists
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He was considered the
greatest living artist in his lifetime, and since then he was considered as one of the greatest
artists of all time. A few of his works in paintings, sculpture, and architecture rank among the
famous in existence.
Outstanding works as sculptor were the following:
Pieta

This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after
the Crucifixion. 

Moses

it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in chapter 34

of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time.

Dying Slave

Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452- 1519)

Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. He was popularized in
present times through the novel and movie, “Da Vinci Code.” He was known as the ultimate
“Renaissance man” because of his intellect, interest, talent, and his expression of humanist and
classical values. He was also considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and
perhaps the most diversely talented person to have ever lived.
His well-known works were:
The Last Supper (the most reproduced religious painting of all time)
Mona Lisa (the most famous and most parodied portrait)
The Vitruvian Man
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)
Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance period. His work was
admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of
interpreting the Divine and incorporating Christian doctrines. Together with Michelangelo and
Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
His famous works were:
The Sistine Madonna
The School of Athens
The Transfiguration

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello) (1386- 1466)

His works included the following statues and relief:
David
Statue of St. George,
Prophet Habacuc,
The Feast of Herod.