ART in

RENAISSANCE ERA
Fine Arts - Italy
Italian Renaissance
• Centered in Florence
• Frescoes: paintings done on fresh, wet plaster with
water-based paints.
• Frequently artists were patronized by the religious
leaders of the time, which explains the fact that
Italian Renaissance art is characterized by religious
themes.
MAJOR ARTISTS DURING RENAISSANCE
PERIOD
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519)
He was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor,
military
engineer and draftsman — the epitome of a
“Renaissance man.” With a curious mind and
keen
intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science
and nature,
which greatly informed his work.
His ideas and body of work have influenced
countless
artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the
Italian Renaissance.
POPULAR ART WORKS of Leonardo

St. John the Baptist

Oil on walnut panel

69 × 57 cm, 27.2 × 22.4 in

Paris, Louvre
Mona Lisa

Oil on cottonwood (poplar) panel

76.8 × 53.0 cm, 30.2 × 20.9 in

Paris, Louvre
The Last Supper

Tempera on gesso,
pitch and mastic

460 × 880 cm,

181 × 346

Milan,
Convent of Santa
Maria delle
Grazie
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520)
Raphael was born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino,
Italy. Living in Florence from 1504 to 1507, he
began painting a series of "Madonnas." In
Rome from 1509 to 1511, he painted the Stanza
della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura")
frescoes located in the Palace of the Vatican.
He later painted another fresco cycle for the
Vatican, in the Stanza d'Eliodoro ("Room of
Heliodorus"). In 1514, Pope Julius II hired
Raphael as his chief architect. Around the same
time, he completed his last work in his series of
the "Madonnas," an oil painting called
the Sistine Madonna. Raphael died in Rome on
POPULAR ART WORKS of Raphael
The Disputation, or simply
“the Disputa,” was
commissioned by Pope Julius II
almost immediately after
Raphael moved to Rome in
1508 as part of a huge project to
paint the walls of the Stanza
della Segnatura, the pope’s
library quarters within the
Vatican that are now referred
to simply as the
“Raphael Rooms.”
The Sistine Madonna (1512)

An altarpiece commissioned for the

church of San Sisto in Piacenza, this
work depicts a cloud-borne Mary
and Christ child, both appearing
rather concerned, flanked by two
saints and seeming to hover against
a backdrop of ghostly putti faces.
But it’s the two cherubs at the
bottom of the canvas that have
made the painting famous.
Regarded as Raphael’s
greatest masterpiece,
The School of Athens
sits opposite the
Disputation of the
Most Holy Sacrament
in the Stanza della
Segnatura and
represents worldly truth,
i.e. philosophy. It’s a
virtuosic wonder of
perspective and
populated by an
intellectual who’s-who
of Western thought
from Plato and Aristotle
to Ptolemy and Euclid.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564)
Michelangelo is widely
regarded as the most famous
artist of the Italian
Renaissance. Among his
works are the "David" and
"Pieta" statues and the
Sistine Chapel frescoes.
POPULAR ART WORKS of Michelangelo
David
Quite possibly the world’s
most famous sculpture,
Michelangelo’s David was
sculpted over the course of
three years, beginning
when the artist was just 26
years old.
Alongside David, Michelangelo’s
late 15th–century work Pietà is
considered one of the artist’s
greatest works and certainly
one of his best-known. Originally
made for the funeral tomb of French
Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, the
evocative sculpture depicts the
Virgin Mary holding the body of
Christ after his crucifixion – a
common theme for funeral
monuments in Renaissance-era
Italy.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
(1386 – 13 December 1466)
Italian sculptor Donatello was
the greatest Florentine sculptor
before Michelangelo (1475–
1564) and was the most
influential individual artist of the
15th century in Italy.
POPULAR ART WORKS of Donatello
SAINT MARK
Type: Marble Statue
Year: 1411 – 1413

Donatello’s initial works like

the Marble David were carried out in
the Gothic style, which was the
prevalent style for sculpture at the
time. It was in his marble statues of St.
Mark and St. George that he first
completely moved away from the
Gothic style towards classical
techniques.
 DAVID
Type: Bronze Statue
Year: c. 1440s

The Bronze David is renowned for being

the first large-scale free-standing nude statue
since antiquity. It depicts David, of the story
of David and Goliath, holding the sword of
his defeated enemy and with his foot on
Goliath’s severed head. David is completely
naked, apart from a laurel-topped hat and
boots. The well-proportioned and delicate
figure of David bears contrast with the giant
sword in his hand perhaps indicating the
assistance of God in his achieving the
incredible feat.
Mini Task

*Make a meme using any kind of arts

during Renaissance period.
*The meme should be printed in a
construction paper.
*Your work will be presented next week.