Renaissance in N. Italy

 

*Renaissance= rebirth or reawakening

 

Middle Age Thinkers- Focus on life and death.

 

Renaissance Thinkers- Focus on the present.

 

*Renaissance began in N. Italy in the Mid 1300's and spread North to Florence and Venice.

 

*Rich merchants spent money on financing art projects.

 

*Humanism- A focus on worldly issues. This refocused the works that were done by the Greeks and Romans.

 

*Renaissance painters brought a new realism to art. ie. live models.

 

*Artist of Italian Renaissance

 

*Leonardo da Vinci-

*Painter, sculptor, inventor, architect, musician, engineer

*Painting of Mona Lisa

*Sketches and plans of flying machines and submarines.

 

*Michelangelo-

*Sculptor, engineer, poet, painter, architect

*Statue of David

*Dome of St. Peter's Church in Rome

 

*Raphael-

*Painter

*Student of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci

*Paintings of the Madonna, mother of Jesus

 

*Sofonisba Anguissola-

*Woman artist

*Painting of The Artist's Sisters Playing Cards

*Painter for King Phillip II of Spain

 

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