Renaissan

ce Period

1400-1600 A.D
Early and High
Renaissance
1400-1550
Chief Artists and Major Works
Lorenzo Ghiberti
(Italian, 1378-1455)
 One of the most influential artist of
the early renaissance.
 Was a famous Florentine metal
worker and sculptor.
Gates of Paradise
(Porta del Paradiso)

(1425-1452)
 Depicts the old testament scenes
in the ten panels.
 Pair of gilded bronze doors.
Filippo Brunelleschi
– Father of renaissance architecture
– The first modern engineer, planner,
and sole construction supervisor.
Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral
(Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore )

– The largest brick dome in the world

– A masterpiece of European
architecture.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
– leading sculptor of the early
Renaissance.
– he studied classical sculpture and
used this to develop a complete
Renaissance style in sculpture
David
– David wears nothing but boots and
a shepherd’s hat with laurel leaves
on top of it, which may allude to
his victory or to his role as a poet
and musician.
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni
Filipepi
 known as Sandro Botticelli
 a 15th-century Florentine painter
The Birth of Venus
– Botticelli deftly captures the
movement of the goddess and the
story of her birth, which in turn
came to symbolize the birth of
beauty into the world.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
 commonly Leonardo da Vinci
 He is widely considered one of the
greatest painters of all time,
despite perhaps only 15 of his
paintings having survived.
Mona Lisa
 seemingly ordinary portrait
of a young woman dressed
modestly in a thin veil,
somber colors, and no
jewelry.
 Painting’s simplicity belies
Leonardo’s talent for realism.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni
 known best as simply
Michelangelo
 Italian sculptor, painter,
architect and poet of the High
Renaissance
David
 Michelangelo presents us with
David in giant form, which is
ironic since his enemy is a
giant.
 The colossal size is significant
because it was the first time
that a large scale nude statue
was made in the Renaissance.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
 was an Italian painter and
architect of the High
Renaissance
 Known for his large figure
compositions in the Vatican.
The School of Athens
 represents worldly truth
 Raphael went ahead and included
himself in the scene, too.
Venetian and Northern
Renaissance
1430-1550
Chief Artists and Major Works
Giovanni Bellini
 1430-1516
 Italian painter who, in his
work, reflected the
increasing interest of the
Venetian artistic milieu in the
stylistic innovations and
concerns of the Renaissance
The Agony in the Garden
 This painting depicts the
common religious theme of
Christ's time of prayer in the
Garden of Gethsemane
before being taken prisoner
by the Roman soldiers as a
result of Judas' betrayal.
Giorgio da Castelfranco
 Extremely influential Italian
painter who was one of the
initiators of Renaissance
style in Venetian art.
Portrait of a Young Man ('Giustiniani
Portrait')
 Signify 'Virtus Vincit' (virtue
conquers), or 'Vivus Vivo'
(the living [made it] for the
living). 
Titian
 Titian was most famous for
his bold utilization of color,
particularly in his earlier
work, and he achieved this
through seeking out rare
pigments and using them in
their richest and most
saturated form
Amor Sacro and Amor Profano
 The painting is rich in
symbolism and iconography
although there is a lack of
consensus amongst critics
about its meaning and even
the title of the painting may
not be original as it was not
recorded until 1693.
Albrecht Dürer
 Painter and printmaker
generally regarded as the
greatest German Renaissance
artist. His vast body of work
includes altarpieces and
religious works, numerous
portraits and self-portraits,
and copper engravings.
The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse
 This is the third woodcut in
Dürer's terrifying
Apocalypseseries, which
contains altogether fifteen
scenes from the Book of
Revelations. It depicts the four
Apocalyptic Riders as they are
described in the Old
Testament.
Dutch Pieter Bruegel De Oudere

 Greatest Flemish painter of

the 16th century, whose
landscapes and vigorous,
often witty scenes of peasant
life are particularly
renowned.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

 One of Bruegel's best-known

paintings, Landscape with
the Fall of Icarus incorporates
a landscape in the
foreground with an
expansive seascape
stretching away towards the
horizon
Hieronymus Bosch

 has a surrealistic, cartoon-

like quality and expresses the
moral failings of the human
condition with utter
pessimism.
The Garden of Earthly Delights

 considered Bosch’s
seminal masterpiece and
the most successful and
outstanding of his
creations.
7.Jan Van Eyck

 Flemish painter often

credited as the first master,
or even the inventor of oil
painting.
Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the
Stigmata
 known as an innovator of veristic
realism, not only for his meticulous
portraiture but also for his
stunning panoramic landscapes
that appear to recede far into the
distance.
Rogier Van der Weyden
 Renowned for his slender
elegant figures and interior
perspective, he is best known
for his colorful panel
paintings, usually altarpieces,
on Biblical subjects.
Descent from the Cross

 It is compressed into a frame that

only just contains it. Also, the
depth within the painting is very
shallow and is contained by a wall
in the background, this gives the
figures greater prominence and
highlights the extreme
expressive sadness that the artist
has woven into the work.