Renaissance Artists

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Renaissance Artists

• Elizabeth M. Harper
• Robert W. Groves High School

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Renaissance Pre-Test

• What does the word Renaissance mean?
• During what time did the Renaissance occur?
• Where did the Renaissance occur?
• Name three artists from this period.
• Name two characteristics of Renaissance art.
• Bonus What is meant by a Renaissance Man?

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Renaissance Art

• Means rebirth
• Period in Europe during the 14th to 17th
  centuries between the Middle Ages and the Modern
  Age
• Began in Italy and spread to rest of Europe
• Classical sources, natural light, and linear
  perspective
• The Renaissance Ideal

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Sandro Botticelli

• 1445 1510
• Lived and worked in Florence, Italy
• Worked for the Medici dynasty
• Painted mythology, religious imagery, and
  portraits
• Contributed to Sistine Chapels frescoes

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Primavera (The Arrival of Spring)
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The Birth of Venus
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Virgin and Child with Young John the Baptist
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Michelangelo Buonarotti

• 1475-1564
• Painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer
• Finished The Pieta and David before age 30
• Most famous for his paintings in the Sistine
  Chapel

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The Pieta
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David
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The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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The Creation of Adam
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The Last Judgement
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Moses
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St. Peters Basilica
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Leonard da Vinci