Transcript Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art
Cimabue
(1240-1302)
• Last of the
Byzantine style
painters
• Giotto’s master
teacher
Madonna and Child
(1280)
Giotto
1267-1337
First great
Renaissance artist
The Ognissanti
Madonna
Giotto’s
Campanile
• Designed 1334
• Chief architect for
the city of Florence
Giotto’s Frescoes
• What is a fresco?
• Why were Giotto’s so
great?
• Where are they now?
– Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
– Santa Croce, Florence
– Assisi
More Frescoes by Giotto
Filippo
Brunelleschi
1337-1446
Architect, goldsmith
1420-1436:
construction of the
duomo
Pazzi Chapel, Florence (1430)
Donatello (1386-1466)
• Greatest Renaissance
Sculptor in Florence
• Breaks with Gothic
solemn rows of saints
• Donatello’s David in
bronze is first male
nude since Classical
times; first freestanding
bronze in Italian
Renaissance
Masaccio
• Born 1401-28
• Influenced by Giotto,
friends with Donatello
and Brunelleschi
• One of first to use a
“vanishing point” and
scientific perspective in
paintings
• Expulsion of Adam and
Eve
Fra Filippo Lippi
(1406-1469)
Tarquinia Madonna
(1437)
Likely a student of
Masaccio
Famous for his
portrayals of the
Virgin Mary
Annunciation scenes
Lippi’s “Funeral of St. Stephen”
Fra Angelico
Sandro Bottacelli (1445-1510)
• “Adoration of the Magi” (14756)
Ghirlandaio (1449-94)
The High Renaissance
• da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
Da Vinci’s Last Supper
All images used in this slide show
are from the following site:
Italian Renaissance Art.com