Mr. Brook’s Renaissance & Northern Renaissance art study guide Renaissance Artists Brunelleschi Ghiberti Donatello da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Botticelli Characteristics Realism & expression Perspective Classicism Focus on individualism Geometrical arrangement of figures Shadowing/softening Northern Renaissance Artists Jan van Eyck Lucas Cranach the Elder Albrecht Dürer Hans Holbien the Younger Pieter Bruegel El Greco Characteristics Realism & naturalism Focus on landscapes, portraits, and interiors Experimenting with light More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life Be sure to also study your notes – we discussed other issues not reflected in this deck like patronage, the causes of each Renaissance, etc.

The Renaissance

Brunelleschi’s dome of the Florence duomo (cathedral)

Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise = baptistry door of the Florence duomo (cathedral)

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks (over 5000 pages)

Donatello’s David Michelangelo’s David

Michelangelo’s Pieta (Mary mourning Jesus) Michelangelo’s dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo’s

Michelangelo’s The most famous panel is The Creation of Man

Raphael’s The School of Athens

Raphael’s Baldassare Castiglione Raphael’s Portrait of Pope Julius II

Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

The Northern Renaissance

Jan Van Eyck’s Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (wedding portrait)

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Portrait of Martin Luther

Albrecht Dürer’s Self-Portrait in Fur- Collared Robe Albrecht Dürer’s The Last Supper (woodcut)

Hans Holbein the Younger’s Erasmus Writing Hans Holbein the Younger’s Henry VIII

Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors

Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel

Pieter Bruegel’s The Beggars

Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel’s Mad Meg

El Greco’s The View of Toledo El Greco’s Portrait of a Cardinal