Art of the

Renaissance
 Renaissance (1400-1600)

 means rebirth
flourished in the 1400s in the
Italian City of Florence
the era of great creativity in
painting, sculpture, and literature.
the period of economic progress
 Renaissance (1400-1600)
 the period that revived
enthusiasm for the study of
artistic values and ancient
philosophy
 the time when people
rediscovered the glories of
ancient Greece and Rome.
 Renaissance (1400-1600)
an era of great
intellectual and artistic
achievement with the
birth of secular art.
focus was on realistic
and humanistic art
Renaissance (1400-1600)
In many parts of Europe, Early
Renaissance art was created in
parallel with Late Medieval art. By
1500, the Renaissance style
prevailed.
The greatest cathedral building of the
age was the rebuilding of St. Peter's
Basilica in Rome.
Famous Renaissance
Artworks and Artists
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)

Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)

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

 Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
An Italian Sculptor, Painter,
Architect, and Poet.
The greatest living artist in his
lifetime, and ever since then he
was considered as one of the
greatest artists of all time.
 Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
 A number of his works in paintings,
sculpture, and architecture rank
among the famous in existence.

 Among his outstanding works as

sculptor were the following: Pieta,
Bacchus, Moses, David, Dying Slave,
Dawn, and Dusk.
David was sculpted by
Michelangelo, between
1501 and 1504. This
David, unlike others,
shows him waiting for
Goliath, instead of
victorious after battle
 In Pieta,
Michelangelo approached the
subject which until then given
form mostly from north of the
Alps, where the portrayal of
pain had always been
connected with the idea of
redemption as represented by
the seated Madonna holding
Christ's body in her arms.
 Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)

 Michelangelo convinces himself

and his spectators of the divine
quality and the significance of
these figures by means of earthly
and perfect beauty, but of course,
these are human standards.
 Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
 A Painter, Architect, Scientist, and
Mathematician.
 He was popularized in present times through the
novel and movie, “Da Vinci Code”.
 He is known as the ultimate “Renaissance man”
because of his intellect, interest, talent and his
expression of humanist and classical values.
 He is widely considered to be one of the greatest
painters of all time and perhaps the most
diversely talented person to have ever lived.
 Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
 His well-known works were: The Last
Supper (the most reproduced religious
paintingof all time), and Mona Lisa ( The
most famous and most parodied portrait.).

 His other works were: The Virtruvian Mar,

The Adoration of the Magi, and the Virgin of
the Rocks.
 MONA LISA
Perhaps one of the
most famous
Renaissance paintings
is the Mona Lisa,
painted by Italian artist,
Leonardo da Vinci. It is
a typical Renaissance
painting. It is famous
for her haunting,
inexplicable smile.
 Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
 Mona Lisa stems from a description by
Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who
wrote, “Leonardo undertook to paint for
Francesco del Giocondo the portrait of Mona
Lisa, his wife.
 Mona, in Italian, is a polite form of address
originating as Madonna- similar to Ma'am,
“madamme,” or “My Lady” in English. This
became Madonna and its contraction “Mona”.
 Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Raphael) (1483-1520)
 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 the 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.
 Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Raphael) (1483-1520)
 His main contributions to arts were his
unique draftsmanship and
compositional skills.
 His famous work were: The Sistine
Madonna, The School of Athens, and
The Transfiguration.
 Sistine Madonna
c. 1513-1514
Dresden Gallery,
Dresden, Germany
 The School of Athens 1510-1511
Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome
The Transfiguration
Raphael's last painting on which he
worked on up to his death.

Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio

de Medici, the late Pope Clement
VII, the painting was conceived as
an altarpiece for the Narbonne
Cathedral in France. The painting
exemplifies Raphael's development
as an artist and the culmination of
his career. The subject is combined
with an additional episode from the
Gospel in the lower part of the
painting.
 Donato di Niccolo di Betto
Bardi (Donatello) (1386-1466)
 One of the Italian great artists of the period.
 He was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor
from Florence.
 He is known for his work as bas-relief a form of
shallow relief sulpture.
 His works included the following statues and
relief: David, Statue of St. George, Equestrian,
Monument og Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc
and The Feast of Herod.
 Donato di Niccolo di Betto
Bardi (Donatello) (1386-1466)
 Renaissance art is the art of calm and beauty.
 Its creations are perfect- they reveal nothing
forced or inhibited, uneasy or agitated.
 Each form has been born easily, free and
complete.
 Everything breathes satisfaction, and we are
surely not mistaken in seeing in this heavenly
calm and content the highest artistic expression
and spirit of that age.
David
The first free-
standing nude
statue of the
Renaissance,
David was
sculpted by Italian
sculptor Donatello,
about 1430-1435.
It is nearly life size
Art of the
Baroque
Baroque Art (1600-1800)
The term Baroque was derived
from the Portugese word barocco
which means “irregularly shaped
pearl or stone.”
It describes a fairly complex idiom
and focuses on painting, sculpture, as
well as architecture.
Baroque Art (1600-1800)
After the idealism of Renaissance,
and the slightly forced nature of
“mannerism,” Baroque art above all
reflects the tensions of the age notably
the desire of the Catholic Church in
Rome to reassert itself in the wake of
the Protestant Reformation which is
almost the same with Catholic
Reformation Art of the period.
Baroque Art (1600-1800)
Baroque existed in varying
degrees of intensity, from a
simple animated movement
of lines and surfaces, to a
rich and dynamic wealth.
 Baroque Art (1600-1800)
Baroque was a period of artistic styles in
exaggerated motion, drama, tension, and
grandeur.
The Roman Catholic Church highly
encourage the Baroque style to propagate
Christianity while the aristocracy used
Baroque style for architecture and arts to
impress visitors, express triumph, power
and control.
 Baroque Art (1600-1800)

Baroque painting illustrated key

elements of Catholic dogma, either
directly or Biblical works or
indirectlyin imaginary or symbolic
work. The gestures are broader than
Manerist gestures: less ambiguous,
less acrane, and mysterious.
 Baroque Art (1600-1800)
Baroque sculpture, typically larger
than life size, is marked but a similar
sense of dynamic movement, along
with an active use of space.
Baroque architecture was
designed to create spectacle and
illusion.
 Famous Baroque
Artworks and Artists
Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)

Diego Velasquez (1599-1660)

 Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi
da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
 He was better known as Caravaggio.

 An Italian who wanted to deviate from the

classical masters of the Renaissance.

 He was an outcast in his society, because of his

own actions and the lack of modesty and
reverence for religious subjects in his own
paintings.
 Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi
da Caravaggio (1571-1610)
 Studies of single figures followed, but they are
clumsier than the fruit which gives their savor
of originality and charm.
 Caravaggio's models at this period were either
himself or young persons who have an air of
being promising but wicked.
 Among his famous paintings were:
 Supper at Emmaus
 Conversion of St. Paul
 Entombment of Christ
“Conversion of St. Paul” by Caravaggio
Image from CCP Library
 Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680)
 An Italian artist and the first Baroque artist.
 He practiced architecture and sculpture,
painting, stage design, and was also a
playwright.
 He was also the last in the list of dazzling
universal geniuses.
 He was also the last in the list of dazzling
universal geniuses.
 As a prodigy, his first artworks date from his
8th birthday.
 Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680)
 Among his early works were:
 The Goat Amalthea with the Infant
Jupiter and a Faun
 Damned Soul
 Blessed Soul
 He made a sculpture of David for Cardinal
Borghese which is strikingly different from
Michelangelo's David because it shows the
differences between Renaissance and the
Baroque periods.
 Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680)
 He was the greatest Baroque sculptor and
architect as seen in his design of the Pizza San
Pietro in front of the Basilica.
 It is one of his most innovative and
successful architectural designs.
 The famous Ecstasy of St. Teresa was his
greatest achievement and the Colonade of the
Piazza of St. Peter's Rome.
“Ecstasy of St. Teresa” by Bernini
Image from CCP Library
 Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640)
 Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter.
 He was well known for his paintings of
mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes,
portraits, and Counter Reformation altarpieces.
 His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects,
history paintings of magical creatures, and hunt scenes.
 His famous works were:
 Samson and Delilah
 Landscape with a Tower
 Portrait of Helene Fourment
 The three Graces
 “Portrait of
Helene
Fourment” by
Rubens
Image from CCP
Library
 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606-1669)
was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter and
etcher.
generally considered as one of the
greatest painters and printmakers in
European art.
He followed no particular faith, but was
interested in spiritual values and often
chooses religious subjects.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606-1669)
shares with Rubens the revolution
whereby painting came to depict the
more personal aspects of the painter: his
own home and his family.
No artist has painted himself as often as
did Rembrandt.
His concept of himself continued to
deepen in grasp and subtlety, while his
technique grew more daring.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606-1669)
His well- known work was his
“Self portrait in Old Age”.
Had produced over 600
paintings, nearly 400 etchings,
and 2000 drawings.
 “Self-
Portrait”
by
Rembrandt
 Diego Velasquez
(1599- 1660)
He was one of the finest masters
of composition and one of the
most important painters of the
Spanish Golden Age.
He worked out solutions to
pictorial problems of design that
transcend the style of any period.
 Diego Velasquez
(1599- 1660)
was the case of a painter who
discovered his avocation almost
at the very start of his career.
His famous works were: The
Surrender of Breda, Las Meninas
(The maids of honour), Los
Barachos (The Drinker), and
Maria Theresa
“Las Meninas-(The maids of honour)” by
Velasquez
 Diego Velasquez
(1599- 1660)
 He created this work four years before his
death and served as an outstanding
example of the European baroque period
of art.
 Margaret Theresa, the eldest daughter of
the new Queen, appears to be the subject
of Las Meninas but in looking at the
various view points of the painting, it was
unclear as to who or what was the true
subject; it maybe the royal daughter or the
painter himself.
MADONNA AND CHILD

Painted by Italian artist and

monk Fra Filippo Lippi in
about 1455, it is an example of
Renaissance painting: building
layers of translucent paint to
create a luminous effect.
BIRTH OF VENUS
This painting was comissioned by Lorenzo de'Medici in 1482, and was
painted by Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, and is a tasteful mixture of
mythology, Christianity, and astrology
Doni Tondo, approx 1503, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
RAFAEL SANZIO

Marriage of the
Virgin 1504
Pinacoteca di Brera,
Milan
 Madonna of the
Goldfinch
(Madonna del
Cardellino)
1505-1506
The Uffizi, Florence
 Self Portrait of
Sofonisba Anguissola
(1531-1625) at the
Sofonisba Anguissola (1531-1625) Spinet
Dog and three children
Sofonisba Anguissola (1531-1625)
Painting of the artist’s sisters playing chess and their governess
 SELF PORTRAIT by
Caterina van Hemessen
(1527/8-1587)
Identify the following:

1. Name of the greatest

cathedral building in
Rome.
2. He is known as the
ultimate “Renaissance
man”.
Identify the following:

3. It was sculpted by
Michelangelo, between 1501 and
1504.
4. The greatest living artist in his
lifetime, and was considered as
one of the greatest artists of all
time.
Identify the following:

5. The most reproduced religious

painting of all time.
6. An Italian Painter and
Architect of the High
Renaissance period.
Identify the following:

7. The era of great creativity in

painting, sculpture, and literature
8. The artwork in which the idea
of redemption is represented by
the seated Madonna holding
Christ's body in her arms.
Identify the following:

9. It is a period of artistic styles

in exaggerated motion, drama,
tension, and grandeur.
10. An artwork painted by Italian
artist, Leonardo da Vinci and
one of the most famous
Renaissance paintings.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Matching Type

_________ 1 Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata

_________ 2. Mona Lisa
_________ 3. Sistine Madonna
_________ 4. The Last Supper
_________ 5. Pieta

a. Donatello
b. Michelangelo
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Raphael
e. Bernini
 Multiple Choice

_____1. It means “an irregular shaped pearl”

a. Renaissance b. Baroque c. Sculpture
_________ 2. One of his famous works is the
“Conversion of St. Paul”.
a.Caravaggio b. Bernini c. Rubens
________ 3. “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” is the artwork
of ___________.
a. Bernini b. Rembrandt c. Rubens
Multiple Choice

_________ 4. He is known as the greatest

Baroque sculptor
a. Rubens c. Bernini
b. Rembrandt
__________ 5. “The maids of honour” is the
artwork of _________.
a.Velasquez b. Rubens c. Bernini