Artists /important Figures Flashcards
Fillip Brunelleschi
Egg boy
Leading architect in renaissance
Built first dome of renaissance- cathedral of Santa Maria del fiore
Developed linear perspective and foreshortening
Sandro Botticelli
Painted birth of Venus
Didnt do religious art
Burnt rebellious art work so he won’t go to hell
Donatello
2 works
Italian SCULPTOR
Bronze David
Bronze doors of Florence cathedral
1st turtle
Friar Savonarola
Led destruction of secular art culture
Called for Christ renewal
Led bonfires of those who refused
Verrochio
Da Vinci’s teacher ([v]errochio and Da [V]inci)
Painter sculptor and goldsmith
Leonardo DaVinci
3 works
2nd turtle
Renaissance man :inventing,drawing, sculpting, architecture.
Studied human corpses
Mona Lisa
Last supper
Vitruvian man
Pope Julius II
Commissioned Raphael’s painting in room , and Michelangelo painting in Sistine chapel
Michelangelo
5 works
3rd turtle
SCULPTOR
Catholic art
Copies idealism and proportions of Classical Greek sculptors and learns from them
Sistine chapel ceiling
Last judgment in Sistine chapel— his last work
Pietà -carved his name in it
David
Creation of Adam—most famous painting of his
Raphael
4 works
4th turtle
PAINTER
Born in Florence but prefers Rome
Raphael rooms in Vatican
School of Athens- raphael room
Madonna paintings in Sistine chapel
Stanza della segnatura- Raphael room
Buried in pantheon
Galileo Galilei
Went against church— heretic
Ruled by fear
Said earth orbits around sun- sun does not orbit around earth and got sentenced 9yrs
Pope Leo X
Son of Lorenzo the magnificent
Made dome center of European culture
Raised papacy to significant political power
Martin Luther
German monk
Believed church was corrupt
Started manifest for change that started the French Revolution
The medicis members
Giovani
Cosimo
Lorenzo the magnificent
Cosimo II
Giovanni Medici
Bank founder
Influence on Italian renaissance
Cosimo Medici
Banker
Politician
1st Medici to serve as ruler
