Renaissance
The style of painting, sculpture and decorative arts identified with the Renaissance emerged in Italy
in the late 14th century; it reached its zenith in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Characteristics:
       realism
       perspective
       light and shade
       emphasis on human figures
       Humanism
FAMOUS PAINTERS
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its
clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human
grandeur.
Born: 1483, Urbino, Italy
Died: 6 April 1520, Rome, Italy
WORKS:
       The School of Athens
       Transfiguration
       The Sistine Madonna
       The Triumph of Galatea
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting,
sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology,
astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
Born: 15 April 1452, Anchiano, Italy
Died: 2 May 1519, Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
WORKS:
       Mona Lisa
       The Last Supper
       Vitruvian Man
       Annunciation
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the
High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the
development of Western art.
Born: 6 March 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy
Died: 18 February 1564, Rome, Italy
WORKS:
        Battle of Cascina
        The Creation of Adam
Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early
Renaissance.
Born: 1 March 1445, Florence, Italy
Died: 17 May 1510, Florence, Italy
WORKS:
        The Birth of Venus
        Adoration of the Magi of 1475
        Holy Trinity
Titian
Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He
was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
Born: 1488, Pieve di Cadore, Italy
Died: 27 August 1576, Venice, Italy
WORKS:
        Assumption of the Virgin
        Bacchus and Ariadne
        Diana and Actaeon