Arts of Renaissance and Baroque Period

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1. Arts of Renaissance and Baroque Period

2. Arts of Renaissance Period

3. Renaissance Period 1400-1600 THE FOCUS WAS ON REALISTIC AND HUMANISTIC ART . RENAISSANCE ART WAS CHARACTERIZED BY ACCURATE ANATOMY, SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE, AND DEEPER LANDSCAPE. RENAISSANCE PAINTERS DEPICTED REAL-LIFE FIGURES SCULPTURES WERE NATURALISTIC PORTRAITS OF HUMAN BEINGS . ARCHITECTURE DURING THIS PERIOD WAS CHARACTERIZED BY ITS SYMMETRY AND BALANCE . THE RENAISSANCE WAS A PERIOD OF ARTISTIC EXPERIMENTATION . IT BROUGHT PEOPLE INTO A FULL VIEW JUST LIKE THE HUMAN FIGURES IN GREEK ART. Renaissance Period

4. Famous Renaissance Artworks & Artists

5. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475-1564 ITALIAN SCULPTOR, PAINTER, ARCHITECT, AND POET ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF ALL TIME GREATEST LIVING ARTIST IN HIS LIFETIME AMONG HIS OUTSTANDING WORKS AS SCULPTOR WERE THE FOLLOWING: PIETA, BACCHUS, MOSES, DAVID, DYING SLAVE, DAWN AND DUSK.

6. Famous Sculptures of Michelangelo DEPICTS THE BODY OF JESUS ON THE LAP OF HIS MOTHER MARY AFTER THE CRUXIFICION. HOUSED IN ST. PETER'S BASILICA, VATICAN CITY. MADE UP OF CARRARA MARBLE The Pieta

7. Famous Sculptures of Michelangelo IS A 5.17-METRE (17.0 FT) MARBLE STATUE OF A STANDING MALE NUDE. THE STATUE REPRESENTS THE BIBLICAL HERO DAVID , A FAVOURED SUBJECT IN THE ART OF FLORENCE. The David

8. Other Famous Sculptures of Michelangelo BACCHUS MOSES DYING SLAVE DAWN AND DUSK

9. Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci 1452- 1519 A PAINTER, ARCHITECT, SCIENTIST, AND MATHEMATICIAN KNOWN AS “THE RENAISSANCE MAN” ONE OF THE GREATEST PAINTERS OF ALL TIME

10. Famous Paintings of Leonardo THE BEST KNOWN, THE MOST VISITED, THE MOST WRITTEN ABOUT, THE MOST SUNG ABOUT, THE MOST PARODIED WORK OF ART IN THE WORLD THE PAINTING IS THOUGHT TO BE A PORTRAIT OF LISA GHERARDINI , THE WIFE OF FRANCESCO DEL GIOCONDO, AND IS IN OIL ON A WHITE LOMBARDY POPLAR PANEL Mona Lisa

11. Famous Paintings of Leonardo IT IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND MOST REPRODUCED RELIGIOUS PAINTING MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE IN MILAN, ITALY PORTRAYS THE REACTION GIVEN BY EACH APOSTLE WHEN JESUS SAID ONE OF THEM WOULD BETRAY HIM The Last Supper

12. Other Famous Paintings of Leonardo THE VITRUVIAN MAN THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS

13. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) 1483-1520 ITALIAN PAINTER AND ARCHITECT OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE PERIOD HIS MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ART WERE HIS UNIQUE DRAFTSMANSHIP AND COMPOSITIONAL SKILLS.

14. Famous Paintings of Raphael HIS LAST PAINTING STANDS AS AN ALLEGORY OF THE TRANSFORMATIVE NATURE OF REPRESENTATION. IT IS NOW IN THE PINACOTECA VATICANA IN VATICAN CITY . The Transfiguration

15. Other Famous Paintings of Raphael THE SISTINE MADONNA THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS

16. Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello) 1386- 1466 ITALIAN GREAT ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD. ITALIAN SCULPTOR KNOWN FOR HIS “BAS RELIEF”

17. Famous Paintings of Donatello BRONZE FIGURE THAT IS NUDE BETWEEN ITS HELMET AND BOOTS DEPICTS DAVID WITH AN ENIGMATIC SMILE, POSED WITH HIS FOOT ON GOLIATH’S SEVERED HEAD JUST AFTER DEFEATING THE GIANT David

18. Other Famous Sculptures of Donatello STATUE OF ST. GEORGE EQUESTRIAN MONUMENT OF GATTAMELATA PROPHET HABACCUC THE FEAST OF HEROD

19. Arts of Baroque Period

20. Baroque Period 1600-1800 A PERIOD OF ARTISTIC STYLES IN EXAGGERATED MOTION, DRAMA, TENSION, AND GRANDEUR . BAROQUE PAINTING ILLUSTRATED KEY ELEMENTS OF CATHOLIC DOGMA , EITHER DIRECTLY IN BIBLICAL WORKS OR INDIRECTLY IN IMAGINARY OR SYMBOLIC WORK. BAROQUE SCULPTURE, TYPICALLY LARGER THAN LIFE SIZE, IS MARKED BY A SIMILAR SENSE OF DYNAMIC MOVEMENT, ALONG WITH AN ACTIVE USE OF SPACE. BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE WAS DESIGNED TO CREATE SPECTACLE AND ILLUSION . Baroque Period

21. Famous Baroque Artworks & Artists

22. Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio 1571-1610 BETTER KNOWN AS CARAVAGGIO ITALIAN ARTIST HE STARTED OUT AS A SPECIALIST IN HIS PAINTINGS OF STILL LIFE HE WAS AN OUTCAST IN HIS SOCIETY

23. Famous Painting of Caravaggio DESCRIBED AS SAINT PAUL WAS STRUCK BY A GREAT LIGHT AT MIDDAY THAT MADE HIM BLIND WHILE HE WAS EN ROUTE TO DAMASCUS TO PROSECUTE CHRISTIANS. FRESCO PAINTING The Conversion of St. Paul

24. Other Famous Paintings of Michelangelo SUPPER AT EMAUS THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST

25. Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598-1680 ITALIAN ARTIST AND THE FIRST BAROQUE ARTIST. HE PRACTICED ARCHITECTURE, AND SCULPTURE, PAINTING, STAGE DESIGN, AND WAS ALSO A PLAYWRIGHT. HIS FIRST ARTWORKS DATE FROM HIS 8TH BIRTHDAY

26. Famous Sculpture of Bernini DEPICTS AN EPISODE OF "RELIGIOUS ECSTASY" IN THE LIFE OF THE CLOISTERED SPANISH MYSTIC AND CARMELITE NUN - TERESA OF AVILA LOCATED IN THE CORNARO CHAPEL OF THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA VITTORIA, ROME Ecstasy of St. Therese

27. Famous Architectural Design of Bernini IS A LARGE PLAZA LOCATED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ST. PETER'S BASILICA IN THE VATICAN CITY Piazza San Pietro

28. Other Famous Sculptures of Bernini THE GOAT AMALTHEA WITH THE INFANT JUPITER AND A FAUN DAMNED SOUL BLESSED SOUL

29. Peter Paul Rubens 1577- 1640 FLEMISH BAROQUE PAINTER WELL KNOWN FOR HIS PAINTINGS OF MYTHICAL AND FIGURATIVE SUBJECTS, LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITS, AND COUNTER- REFORMATION ALTARPIECES. WORKS WERE MOSTLY RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, HISTORY PAINTINGS OF MAGICAL CREATURES, AND HUNT SCENES.

30. Famous Painting of Rubens WAS THE SECOND WIFE OF BAROQUE PAINTER PETER PAUL RUBENS. Portrait of Helene Fourment

31. Other Famous Paintings of Rubens THE THREE GRACES SAMSON AND DELILAH LANDSCAPE WITH A TOWER

32. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606-1669 DUTCH REALIST, PAINTER AND ETCHER ONE OF THE GREATEST PAINTERS AND PRINTMAKERS IN EUROPEAN ART.

33. Famous Painting of Rembrandt NO ARTIST HAS PAINTED HIMSELF AS OFTEN AS DID REMBRANDT. Self-portrait in Old Age

34. Diego Velasquez 1559-1660 ONE OF THE FINEST MASTERS OF COMPOSITION AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PAINTERS OF THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE

35. Famous Painting of Velasquez THE MAID OF HONORS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST INTRIGUING PAINTINGS OF THIS ERA. Las Meninas

36. Other Famous Paintings of Velasquez THE SURRENDER OF BREDA LOS BORACHOS MARIA THERESA