Renaissance Artists

Lesson 2 in Arts (MAPEH)

 Renaissance Arts
• Sometimes the artist will go so far as to
compose a painting to be visually similar
to a pyramid so that the widest part of
the subject is toward the bottom and
the narrowest part at the top, because
the pyramid is the most stable 3-D shape.
However, there is another way to create
the sense of stability in Renaissance art:
the vertical line. In most cases, with the
vertical line, there is still some form of
horizontal line that accompanies it,
which is one reason that the cross for a
crucifixion painting is always so
prominent.

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 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-
1564)
• At 13, he began to train as a painter; known
primarily as an outstanding painter and sculptor, but
he was also an accomplished architect and poet.
• considered as one of the greatest sculptors of all
times, was able to create about 400 sculptures
• In 1504, he was commissioned by the Florentine
Republic to create the statue of the biblical character
David as the symbol of youth, strength, and classic
virtue.
• The characteristics of his works made them
outstanding are physical realism, intensity, energy,
and psychological insight that has never been seen in
any work of art.
 Pieta, sculpture, marble
• shows Christ in his mother’s lap, just
after he was taken down from the
cross. It is remarkable since the
flesh under Christ’s shoulder just
above Mary’s right hand seems to
be soft and pliable. It is also a work
of great beauty, capable of eliciting
deeply emotional response in the
viewer
 Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
• He has little schooling and was largely self-taught
• He was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer,
mathematician, writer, cartographer and scientist
• he used his mastery in arts to study nature and
developed his skill in drawing and interest in science
by filling his notebooks with varied sketched about
botanical studies, inventions, and anatomy
• Like Michelangelo, he dissected corpses to study the
skeleton and muscular structure of the human body
for the purpose of rendering realism in the body
movement and gestures in his paintings
 The Last Supper
• a decoration in the walls of the
monastery church of Santa Maria delle
Grazie in Milan, Italy. The figure of
Christ forms the calm center of the
painting, while the disciples respond in
agitation to his announcement that
“one of you shall betray me”. The 4th
figure from the left end is Judas, who
betrays Christ and is shown pulling
away from him in the painting.
 Mona Lisa
• world’s famous portrait; many
theories emerged about the origin of
the inexplicable smile on the
woman’s face, it was may have been
the result of Leonardo’s interest in
natural chiaroscuro (the effect of
light and shadow on the subject)
 Raphael (1483-1520)
• considered to be one of the greatest and most popular
artists of all time
• Being younger, he was considered during this time as
the next master painter to inherit the fame of da
Vince
• he is well-known for his style of displaying warmth
and serenity in his works;
• used sfumato (blurring sharp outlines with subtle
tonal gradation) and chiaroscuro in a more colorful
way
• he created new figure types – round, gentle faces
raise
 La Belle Jardiniere
• one of the most famous Madonna
portraits of Raphael; he used
contrasting lights and darkness, and
the relaced, informal pose of the
Madonna
 Donatello (1386-1466)
• he was the greatest sculptor of the early
Renaissance; a master stone cutter
• his early statues used long graceful
lines and expressionless faces; later on,
it became more realistic and lifelike
• he worked mainly in stone, bronze, and
wood
 Gatamellata
• bronze equestrian statue
placed in the public square;
this was the first of its kind
since the classical age
Baroque Artists
Lesson 3 in Arts (MAPEH)
 Baroque Arts
• Baroque is “dramatize,” but with the
concept of drama also comes a noted
instability or intense energy.
• In the Baroque, the lines might start
with one part of the composition and
continue with another, seemingly
unrelated part of the composition. In
fact, sometimes the blackness of the
background functions as a diagonal
line.
• The backdrops are considered so
unimportant that they are often simply
blackened out.
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 Caravaggio
The Artist Sample Artwork Characteristics
• known by his style • The Crowning with • he filled in swirling
realistic naturalism Thorns figures that appear like
• the subjects for his • Supper at Emaus moving figures
• The Calling of • the play of dark and light
sacred figures were
Saint Matthew on figures added the
ordinary and
common people with show of characters. The
dramatic scenes and position of subjects
charged with draws more viewers to be
symbolic involved into the event
psychological that took place in the
meaning canvas which is called
theatrical spectacle
 Peter Paul Rubens
The Artist Sample Artwork Characteristics
• he treated art as the • Prometheus Bound • the lines are swirling,
highest level of • Venus at a Mirror curving, and diagonal,
orderliness conveying motions and
• he tried to expose energies
beauty tempered • motifs are Greek myths
with religious and history
disposition • the fair skin of the
• most often, main subject in the
voluptuous women canvas is always
are his favorite emphasized
subject • calm, noble, dignified
 Velasquez
The Artist Sample Artwork Characteristics
• a gifted artist and the • Las Meninas • he evolved soft
most celebrated exquisite color tones
painter of the and gave his subjects a
Spanish Golden Age sense of dignity and
• he was known as a self-worth
portrait artist, but • he uses lines that
also painted scenes pointed well to the
of historic and overall movement of
cultural significance the nobility of his
subjects
 Rembrandt
The Artist Sample Artwork Characteristics
• he seemed to • The Return of the • he uses thick paints in
understand much the Prodigal Son rough texture to
human nature that he convey firm yet elegant
appeared to translate forms
them into the canvas • the play of light and
in lifelike and dark is cleverly
theatrical quality manipulated in
achieving a vanishing
perspective

The Artist
• was trained under rigid,
disciplined craftmanship of his
sculptor-father
• he produced dynamic sculptures
and his figures were seen to have
strong energy and movement
• he received works such as
designing churches, chapels,
fountains, monuments, tombs, and
statues
• known by his style realistic
naturalism
• the subjects for his sacred figures
were ordinary and common people
with dramatic scenes and charged
with symbolic psychological
meaning
Bernini
Sample Artwork Characteristics
• Apollo and Daphne • expressed passionate emotions
• lifelike movement seemed to
drew the viewer to get
involved in the scene
• symmetry and rhythm fixed
his subjects to pose theatrical
spectacle as is a noble activity
is done
• unity is always attained; he
intertwined drapery (clothes
hanged in fold) with the
movement to attain a classical
pose
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