Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo Renaissance Painters Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo
Renaissance Painters Objective: List the themes and techniques that Renaissance artists and writers explored
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Raphael He combined religious art with the Renaissance spirit Raphael was a master of design
Raphael He combined religious art with the Renaissance spirit He become famous for his madonnas—pictures of Mary. He showed her as a human woman
Raphael Raphael was a master of design He used perspective to create a sense of space and balance in his Paintings. School Of Athens
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Michelangelo He was a skilled painter, poet, architect, and a sculptor. He called sculpting “the first of the arts.”
Michelangelo At age 23, he made the statue called la Pieta. It shows Mary holding the body of Jesus after the Crucifixion
Michelangelo’s David David is considered the “Perfect Male” of all time.
Michelangelo In 1508, Pope Julius II called him to the Vatican. He asked Michelangelo to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with frescos. Fresco: Watercolor paintings on fresh plaster. It took him 4 years to complete his work.
Michelangelo 4. The paintings show Biblical events from the creation to the great flood of Noah’s time.
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings
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Leonardo da Vinci
A few of his paintings remain today. Leonardo A few of his paintings remain today. The Last Supper.
Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
Leonardo’s: Notebooks His notebooks are proof of his brilliance.
Leonardo’s: Notebooks To learn more about the human body he dissected corpses and made careful drawings of the structure of muscles and bones. He examined natural objects—birds wing, veins in a leaf, a horse’s leg. He tried to find general rules that would apply to the information he gained from his observations.
Leonardo’s: Notebooks
Leonardo Leonardo was also an engineer, scientist, and an inventor His notebooks show designs for flying machines, submarines, parachutes, and machineguns He designed the bicycle but it remained unknown to the world until it was “reinvented” 3 centuries later
Leonardo
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Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo Renaissance Painters Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo