Transcript Design & Drawing Artists

Design & Drawing Artists
#1: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: Representational
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Mostly religious (Christianity)
Rebirth (Greek Classical style)
Poses are usually very ridged with little
movement implied.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fun Facts:
• Leonardo was a
painter, sculptor,
draftsman, architect,
botanist, and an
inventor.
• His painting, The
Mona Lisa, is the
most famous
artwork in history.
Self-portrait, 1400s
Leonardo da Vinci
Anatomy, 1400s
Leonardo da Vinci
Helico, 1400s
Leonardo da Vinci
Sketch for Madonna of the Rocks, 1400s
Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man
1490
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#2: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• Considered himself foremost a sculptor even though the
Pope persuaded him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel.
• Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer.
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In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the
divine one").
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Study for the Colonna Pieta
1538
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi
1532
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Archers shooting at a herm
1530
Michelangelo Buonarrotti
Cleopatra, 1533-34
Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Dream, 1533
Design and Drawing Artists
#3: Albrecht Durer (German)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• Painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician,
and theorist from Nuremberg.
• Used math when drawing to create perspective
and ideal proportions.
• His high quality woodcuts established his
reputation across Europe while still in his
twenties.
Albrecht Dürer
An Oriental Ruler Seated on
His Throne, 1495
Albrecht Dürer
Coats of Arms around
Double-headed Eagle, 1521
Albrecht Dürer
Melancholy, 1514
Albrecht Dürer
The Nativity, 1514
Albrecht Dürer
Head of an Apostle Looking
Downward, 1508
Design and Drawing Artist
#4: Raphael (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
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Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace.
Considered one of the greatest muralists of all time.
Rivaled with Michelangelo.
Died at age 37.
Raphael
Head of a Muse, 1490
Raphael
Study for the Phrygian Sibyl,
(1511-1512)
Raphael
God of Moses in the burning appears Dornebusche
Raphael
God the Father Appearing to Moses
Raphael
Heads and hands of the
two apostles, 1514
Design and Drawing Artists
#5 Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch)
Time period: Baroque (1600-1700)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• His style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality
• He is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces,
portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and
allegorical subjects
• In addition to running a large studio, he was a classically
educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by
both Philip IV and Charles I
Peter Paul Rubens
Head of a Boy
Peter Paul Rubens
Isabella Brant, 1621
Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of a
Chambermaid, 1623
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Theodore Mayerne,
1630
Peter Paul Rubens
Study of a Lion
Design and Drawing Artists
#6 Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch)
Time period: Baroque (1600-1700)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• His contributions to art came in a period of great
wealth and cultural achievement that historians call
the Dutch Golden Age.
• Created over 100 self-portraits during his lifetime.
• Having achieved youthful success as a portrait
painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by
personal tragedy and financial hardships.
Rembrandt Van Rijn
An Elephant, in the Background a Group of
Spectators, 1637
Rembrandt Van Rijn
A portrait of Titia Van
Uylenburg, 1639
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Self Portrait, mid
1630’s
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Cottages Before a Stormy Sky, 1641
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Old Man Seated in an
Armchair, 1631
Design and Drawing Artists
#7 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
(French)
Time Period: Neo-classical
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• Considered by many to be the greatest draftsman
of all time.
• Specialized in figures and portraits.
• Many of his pieces included expressive distortions
of form and space.
• These distortions made him an important precursor
Jean Dominique Ingres
The Violinist Niccolò
Paganini, 1819
Jean Dominique Ingres
Figure Study, 1800s
Jean Dominique Ingres
Portrait of Victor Baltard's wife
and their daughter Paule,
1836
Jean Dominique Ingres
Lethier Family Portrait
Jean Dominique Ingres
Madeleine Ingres With the Artist,
1830
Design and Drawing Artists
#7 Jacques Louis David (French)
Time Period: Neo-classical
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
• Painted in the Neoclassical style.
• Active supporter of the French Revolution.
• Strongest influence in French art of the early
19th century.
Jacques Louis David
The Empress Josephine Kneeling with Mme de la
Rochefoucauld and Mme de la Valette, 1806
Jacques Louis Daivd
Study of the Head of St.
Michael, 1780
Jacques Louis David
Portrait Of The Baroness Jeamn Ana Her Daughter,
1821
Jacques Louis David
The Three Horatii
Brothers, 1785
Jacques Louis David
Study of Sabine Statue,
1775