1. Renaissance Artists

2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452- 1519 Artist Sculptor Architect Scientist
Engineer
Inventor
Self Portrait

3. Vitruvian Man
Mona Lisa

4. Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

5. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

6. Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Refractory
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Milan

7. A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

8. Leonardo, the Artist: From hisNotebooks of over 5000 pages (1508-1519)

9. Leonardo, the Sculptor
An Equestrian Statue

10. Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology): Pages from his
Notebook
An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.

11. Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy): Pages from his Notebook

12. Leonardo, the Inventor: Pages from his Notebook

13. Man Can Fly?

14. Michelangelo Buonorrati
1475 – 1564
David
The Pieta

15. The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

16. The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

17. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

18. The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man

19. The Sistine Chapel Details
The Fall from Grace

20. The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment

21. Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) aka: Raphael
Sistine Madonna
Alba Madonna

22. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
One point perspective.
All of the important Greek philosophers and thinkers are included  all of the great personalities of the Seven Liberal Arts (grammar, dialect, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music)
A great variety of poses.
Located in the papal apartments library.
Raphael worked on this commission simultaneously as Michelangelo was doing the Sistine Chapel.
No Christian themes here.

23. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo

24. The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm].
Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now].

25. Averroes
Hypatia
Pythagoras

26. Zoroaster
Ptolemy
Euclid

27. 1: Zeno of Citium 2: Epicurus 3: Federico II of Mantua 4: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles 5: Averroes 6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon 9: Hypatia 10: Aeschines or Xenophon 11: Parmenides? 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 16: Diogenes 17: Plotinus (Donatello) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students 19: Zoroaster 20: Ptolemy R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes

28. Donatello
First free-form bronze since Roman times!
David
Saint George

29. Masaccio
Created the first masterpieces of the Renaissance using frescos
The Tribute Money

30. Filippo Brunelleschi Commissioned to build the cathedral dome.
Used unique architectural concepts.
He studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome.
Used ribs for support.

31. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 – 1436
Brunelleschi's dome for the Duomo of Florence, Santa Maria del Fiore

32. Humanism
Based on the study of Greek and Roman Classics: grammar, rhetoric, poetry, philosophy, history, liberal arts, physical education
Has a big impact on education
Women are not taught rhetoric and mathematics; taught more poetry and music; it was thought that religion and morals was the most important part of a women's education
Petrarch is seen as the father
of Italian Humanism

33. Renaissance Literature
Begins the popular use of Vernacular – the language spoken in their own region (everyday language)
Dante – Divine Comedy – tells of the journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales – his use of English vernacular was important in making his dialect the chief ancestor of the modern English language
Christine de Pizan – The Book of City Ladies – defends women and their education