Renaissance Art Flashcards
Medici Family
The most powerful and wealthiest bankers in Europe who used their wealth to commission are for themselves and to beautify Florence.
Donatello
The 1st great sculptor of the renaissance who revived the classical Greco-roman style of sculpture that were realistic. His “David” was the 1st large, free standing human sculpture of the renaissance.
Michelangelo
was one of the most famous artists in the renaissance, was a painter, sculptor, architect and poet, his art showed realism and expression of the body and emotion, his sculptures “pieta” and “David” are considered masterpieces and he made the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
Leonardo da Vinci
A true renaissance Man who invented and sculpted, he created the Last supper with great emotion, and his greatest masterpiece was the Mona Lisa.
Raphael
He improved the perspective and realism of are by studying Leonardo and Michelangelo, he was the favorite painter of the pope because his greco-roman detail in paintings, and his greatest painting was the “School of Athens”.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Florence’s greatest architect, he studied the Roman Pantheon when he built the Cuppolo of Maria del Fiore Cathedral in florence, and that dome inspired modern building designs.
William Shakespeare
The Renaissance were most known for literature mainly because of his plays.
Northern Renaissance
It spread from Italy as scholars and merchants from other areas visited Italian city states and developed their own characteristics as the Ideas spread.
English Renaissance
It was most known for literature, mainly the plays of William Shakespeare.
French Renaissance
It was most known for its unique architecture.
Netherlands Renaissance
It was most known for realism in art.
