Renaissance+Art+and+Artists

Jacob Inman

Who were the big artists and intellectuals during the Renaissance and what were some of their works? What did they represent and how were they important?

Thesis: Art during the Renaissance truly blossomed in the subjects of Literature, Painting and Sculptures and were best represented by the works of Leonardo Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Raphael, and Michelangelo.


 * Literature(P1):**
 * Machiavelli
 * The Prince
 * discussed how to be an enlightened and effective ruler with many different approaches
 * Petrarch
 * "Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism"
 * Paintings(P2):**
 * Botticelli's Primavera
 * Secular, focused on mythology instead of religious ideas
 * Masaccio's Tribute Money
 * told a story of Jesus taking a coin from the mouth of a fish to pay a tax collector
 * 3 scenes in one painting
 * Jan Van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
 * exceptional detail
 * Durer's Adoration of the Magi


 * Sculptures/Architecture(P2 or P3):**
 * Donatello's David
 * Bramante's Tempietto


 * Big Three of the High Renaissance(P4):**
 * Leonardo Da Vinci
 * The Last Supper
 * Showed disciples with anger and confusing, which went against church thought
 * Mona Lisa
 * Michelangelo
 * Sistine Chapel
 * Commissioned by Pope Julius II
 * Michelangelo was upset because he considered himself a sculptor not a painting, therefore he signed it "Michelangelo, the Sculptor"
 * David (sculpture)
 * Raphael
 * School of Athens

http://www.elrelojdesol.com/leonardo-da-vinci/gallery-english/index.htm

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