arts of renaissance period Flashcards
What year was renaissance period?
1400-1600
THE FOCUS OF RENAISSANCE PERIOD WAS ON
realistic and humanistic art
RENAISSANCE ART WAS CHARACTERIZED BY
ACCURATE ANATOMY, SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE, AND DEEPER LANDSCAPE.
RENAISSANCE PAINTERS DEPICTED
REAL-LIFE FIGURES
THEIR 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.
What year was/did Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni born and die?
1475-1564
> ITALIAN SCULPTOR, PAINTER, ARCHITECT, AND POET
> ONE OF THE
GREATEST ARTISTS OF
ALL TIME
> GREATEST LIVING
ARTIST IN HIS
LIFETIME
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Give 6 Famous Sculptures of Michelangelo
- The Pieta
- The David
- Bacch US
- Dawn and Dusk
- Moses
- Dying Slave
THIS SCULPTURE 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
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
What year was/did Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci born and die?
1452-1519
> A PAINTER, ARCHITECT, SCIENTIST, AND MATHEMATICIAN
• KNOWN AS “THE
RENAISSANCE MAN”
• ONE OF THE GREATEST PAINTERS
OF ALL TIME
Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
Give 5 Famous paintings of Leonardo
- Mona Lisa
- The Last Supper
- The Vitruvian Man
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Virgin of the Rocks