1. Renaissance Art
Welcome to the world of Renaissance art. During the period between 1350 and 1603 artists created magnificent pieces of art that symbolized an age and exemplified the human potential. You will be required to identify these pieces and understand their connections to art history, the politics of the age and their connections to the emergence of the modern era.

2. The Italian Renaissance
This era was a revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical styles (Greco-Roman) in the 14th – 16th century.
The first artist to transition into Renaissance tendencies was Giotto ( )
Masacio ( ?) the student of Giotto would follow into the renaissance style.
Donatello ( ) the sculptor would create the first nude sculptor similar to those of ancient Greece and Rome.

3. Mary Magdalene
Donatello

5. Birth of Venus by Botticelli,1525

6. Mona Lisa
Leonardo Da Vinci

7. The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

8. Pieta
Michelangelo

9. Moses
Michelangelo

10. Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo

11. Creation of Man (Sistine Chapel) by Michelangelo

12. David
Michelangelo

13. The School of Athens by Raphael

14. Marriage of the Virgin
Pietro Perugino, 1500

15. Marriage of the Virgin
Raphael, 1504

16. Madonna and Child Raphael
“ma donna” means ‘my lady’ in Italian (Madonna: is the title of the Virgin Mary)

17. The Tempest
Giorgione

18. The Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Montegna, 1490

19. The Northern Renaissance
As the Renaissance ideas spread out of Italy, they mingled with northern traditions. Many humanists there were more interested in religious ideas than in the secular themes popular in Italy.
Albrecht Durer is perhaps the most famous of these northern Renaissance artists because of the influence his works had so many others. (i.e. Hans Holbein the Younger)

20. The Knight, Death, and the Devil
Durer

21. The Large Turf
Durer

22. Praying Hands
Durer, 1508

23. Self Portrait at 28
Durer, 1500

24. Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Durer, 1494

25. The Ambassadors Holbein

26. Henry VIII
Holbein

27. Crucifixion by Gruenwald

28. Paradise and Hell
Bosch, 1510

29. Christ Carrying the Cross by Bosch

30. The Betrothal of the Arnolfini
Jan van Eyck

33. The Tower of Babel by Bruegel, 1563

34. The Harvesters by Bruegel, 1565

35. The Peasant Dance by Bruegel, 1568

36. The Peasant Wedding by Bruegel, 1568

37. Make sure you “Face” the challenge and know your Renaissance Art pieces by quiz and test time!