1. The Renaissance Outcome: Renaissance Painters/Sculptors

2. WARM UP – October 17
Grab the handouts and answer the following questions on a post it – use your notes from Friday:
1. What does the term Renaissance mean?
2. What two ancient civilizations influenced the artists of the Renaissance?
3. Describe three reasons that the Renaissance began in Italy (what advantages did Italy have?)
4. Who are the four most famous artists of the Renaissance?

3. QUIZ REVIEW
1. Feudalism – was there a lot of trade or very little trade?
2. Manor System – Kings, Lords/Nobles, Knights, Peasants/Serfs
3. Renaissance – What does it mean? Four major artists?
4. Crusades – who fought in it and why?
5. Impact of Hundred Years War – who won? What happened to the leadership in France and England?

4. QUIZ REVIEW
6. The major invention in weapons used by the English during the Hundred Years War
7. Peasant girl that led the French in the Hundred Years War
8. What is term to describe the style of art during the Renaissance that focuses on human potential and achievement
9. Two civilizations that influenced the Renaissance

5. QUIZ REVIEW
10. Whose power did the nobles want to decrease when they created the Magna Carta?
11. Impact of the Crusades --- trade increased or decreased?
12. Impact of the Crusades – who controlled the Holy land of Jerusalem – Muslims or Christians?
13. Why did the Roman Empire fall?

6. QUIZ REVIEW
14. What did the Manor System rely on in regards to obtaining the things needed to survive such as food, clothing, etc.?
15. Feudalism and the Manor System were ended by which two events?

7. The Renaissance Renaissance Art
Artists were supported by patrons like Isabella d’Este and the Medici
Medieval artists used religious subjects to convey a spiritual ideal
Renaissance artists will portray religious subjects but will use realistic styles copied from classical models & Greece and Rome
Renaissance painters used perspective which showed three dimensions on a flat surface with a vanishing point in the middle
Often times fresco was used: painting on wet plaster

8. Michelangelo

9. Famous Artists Michelangelo
Renaissance man: sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
Famous for way he portrayed the human body
Famous works:
Statue of David,
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Dome of St. Peter’s

10. Donatello

11. Famous Artists Donatello
Made sculpture more realistic by carving natural postures and expression that revealed personality.
Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata
Also sculpted a David- favorite subject of Renaissance sculptors

12. Leonardo da Vinci

13. Famous Artists Leonardo da Vinci
Painter, sculptor, inventor, and scientist
Interested in how things work (veins in a leaf and muscle work)
Famous works:
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Virgin on the Rocks
The Da Vinci Code featured many of his paintings

14. The Mona Lisa

15. Raphael

16. Famous Artists Raphael Learned from studying Leonardo and Michelangelo
One of favorite subjects was Madonna and Child (Virgin mary)
Famous works:
School of Athens
Marriage of the Virgin