arts-of-the-renaissance-and-baroque-periods.pptx

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1. Unlocking of Difficulties Baroque– from the Portuguese word “barroco” (an irregular shaped pearl or stone) Renaissance – comes from the word “renaitre” (rebirth, revival, and rediscovery)

2. 1.Analyze art elements & principles in the production of work following a specific art style. Identify distinct characteristics of arts during the Renaissance and Baroque Periods. Identify representative artists from Renaissance and Baroque Periods.

3. Renaissance was the period of economic progress. The period stirred enthusiasm for the study of ancient philosophy and artistic values.

4. Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he was considered as one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in paintings, sculpture, and architecture rank among the famous in existence.

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8. Pieta depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. 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.

9. Leonardo Da Vinci was a architect, and painter, scientist, 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.

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12. “ Mona Lisa ” stems from a description, “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.

13. 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.

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17. The Transfiguration was 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 caree r .

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

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20. a period of artistic styles in motion, drama, tension, and Baroque was exaggerated g r andeu r . The Roman Catholic Church highly encouraged the Baroque style to propagate Christianity while the aristocracy used Baroque style for architecture and arts to impress visitors, express triumph and powe r .

21. He was better known as Caravaggio. 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. Caravaggio’s models at this period were either himself or young persons who have an air of being promising but wicked.

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24. Bernini was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. His first artworks date from his 8th birthday. He made a sculpture of “David” was for Cardinal Borghese which Michelangelo’s David. is strikingly different from The famous “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” was his greatest achievement and the Colonade of the Piazza of St. Peter’s Rome.

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28. Rubens was well known for his paintings of mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes, portraits, and Counter- Reformation altarpieces. His commissioned works subjects, were mostly religious history of magical and hunt paintings creatures, scenes.

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31. Rembrandt was considered as one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art. No artist has painted himself as often as did known work was “ Self portrait in Age ”. Rembrandt produced over nearly and Rembrandt. His well- his Old had 600 400 2000 paintings, etchings, drawings.

32. Velasquez of Spain the Baroque. was one of finest masters developed out of He the of composition and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.

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