Art of the Renaissance

By: Robert, Sarah, Monet, Angelo, Bianca, Laura Jeanne

Renaissance artists wanted to imitate nature in their works. They wanted people to see the reality of the objects or events they were showing.

• Painted fresco's in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century

• A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints

• His paintings had depth and came alive

• He mastered the laws of perspective which enabled him to create the illusion of 3 dimensions

• Developed a new realistic style of painting

Masaccio

• Mastered the art of realistic painting and even dissected human bodies to better see how nature worked

• He also stressed the need to advance beyond realism

• His goal to create idealized forms that would capture the perfection of nature and the individual perfection

• Painted the Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

• Painted numerous Virgin Mary's that were admired by many

• At the age of 25 he was already one of Italy's best painter

• He tried to achieve an ideal of beauty far surpassing human standards

• Well known for his fresco's the Vatican Palace• School of Athen reveals a world of balance, harmony,

and order

• The underlying principles of the art of the classic world of Greece and Rome

Raphael

Brunelleschi• Was inspired by the buildings of classic Rome to

create new architecture in Florence

• The Medici hired him to design the church of San Lorenzo

• Like painters and sculptors, Renaissance architects sought to reflect a human-centered world

• He used columms and rounded arches to create an environment that doesn't overwhelm the worshipper

Jan Van Eyck

• Jan Van Eyck was one of the first to use oil paint.• Oil paints enabled artist to use a wide variety of colors and

create fine details in his painting • Like other Northern Renaissance artists, Jan Van Eyck

imitated nature not by using perspective, as Italians did.• He would simply observe reality and portray details the best

he could.

• Was a painter, sculptor, and architect

• Artistic master of the High Renaissance

• Figures on the ceiling on the Sistine Chapel

• Michelangelo painted people in their natural state (naked)

• He was the oldest of all

of the Artisans

• He lived to be 88

Michelangelo

Michelangelo