Renaissance was the period of

economic progress. The period

stirred enthusiasm for the study of
ancient philosophy and artistic
values.
It was an era of great artistic and
intellectual achievement with the
birth of secular art. The focus was on
realistic and humanistic art.
Not concerned with religion or religious
matters
Renaissance art was characterized
by accurate anatomy, scientific
perspective, and deeper landscape.
Famous Renaissance
Artworks and Artists
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(1475-1564)

Michelangelo was an Italian

sculptor, painter, architect,
and poet.
He also created two of the
most influential works in
fresco in the history of
Western art: the scenes
from Genesis on the ceiling
and the Last Judgment on
the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel in Rome.

Last Judgment
In Pieta, Michelangelo
approached the subject which
until then had been 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 Christs
body in her arms.
Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452- 1519)

He was a painter,
architect, scientist, and
mathematician. He was
popularized in present
times through the novel
and movie, Da Vinci
Code.
The Last Supper (the most reproduced
religious painting of all time)
Mona Lisa (the most famous and
most parodied portrait.)

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 Maam, madamme,
or My Lady in English. This became
Madonna and its contraction Mona. The
title of the painting, though traditionally
spelled Mona, is also commonly spelled
in Modern Italian as Monna Lisa.
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 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.
The Sistine Madonna
The Transfiguration was Raphaels 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 Raphaels
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)

Donatello was one of the

Italian great artists of the
period. He was an early
Renaissance Italian sculptor
from Florence. He is known
for his work in bas- relief, a
form of shallow relief
sculpture.
David by Donatello

At the time it was created, it was the first known free-

standing nude statue produced since ancient times
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.