1. Characteristics Examples Changes over time
Renaissance Art
Characteristics
Examples
Changes over time

2. Differences between Ancient Egyptian and
Greek Sculpture
Greek Art
Egyptian Art

3. Differences between Ancient Egyptian and
Greek Sculpture
Hermes
Greek Art
Egyptian Art

4. Nike of Samothrace 190 BC Artist: Unknown
Identify the characteristics:
a. ?
b. ?
c. ?
Goddess of Victory
Powerful legs, stomach
muscles strong stance.
Simple subject, wings give balance`

5. Title: Socrates
Artist: Unknown
Hellenistic Period

6. Title: Three Graces
Artist: Unknown
100 BC
Three Graces

7. Title: Christus Patiens
Artist: Coppo di
Marcovaldo
1261 AD

8. Title: Madonna and Child
Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna
Late Middle Ages (1300?)

9. Title: Enthroned Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets (Maesta)
Artist: Cimabue
1280 AD

10. Title: Enthroned Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets (Maesta)
Artist: Cimabue
1280 AD

11. Title: Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints (Maesta)
Artist: Duccio
1311 AD

13. David Donatello 1440 * First Free Standing Nude Bronze
Statue Since Classical Times
Find spot: David’s hat= Florentine
Shephard’s hat. This is a statue for
Florence (patron saint).
Civic pride = Humanism.

14. St. Jerome in His Study
Da Messina
1455
Trompe L’oeile: an
Optical illusion.
(here- it looks like you
Can step into the entrance
Way and into the picture.

15. Adoration of the Magi Botticelli 1470

16. The Birth of Venus Botticelli 1486

17. The Birth of Venus Botticelli 1486

18. Primavera Botticelli

19. The School of Athens Raphael 1511

20. “History’s first modern man”
Leonardo da Vinci
“History’s first modern man”

21. Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
1505

22. Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
1505

23. The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci 1498

24. Madonna and Child with St. Anne
Leonardo da Vinci
1513

25. Title: Enthroned Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets (Maesta)
Artist: Cimabue
1280 AD

26. Weapons Leo hated war That didn’t stop him from designing new weapons.
He designed rapid-fire cannons
Also designed a tank and a chariot with blades to chop off legs.

27. Leonardo’s Work: Science & Medicine
The Vitruvian Man
Studies of a fetus from Leonardo's journals

28. Leonardo’s Work: Science & Medicine
Investigating the motion of the arm
Organs of a Woman’s Body

29. Leonardo’s Work: Inventions
Design of a flying machine based on bat’s wings

30. Michelangelo

31. The Sistine Chapel This is a painting on the ceiling of a church.
It took over 4 years to finish.
Michelangelo didn’t want to do it but was forced by the Pope
It wasn’t easy!

32. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

33. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

34. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Adam
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Creation of Adam (Ceiling)

35. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Adam
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Expulsion
Eve
Temptation and Expulsion from Eden

36. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
The Last Judgement
(Wall)
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

37. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Christ the Judge
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

38. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
St Bartholomew holds his own skin.
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

39. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
A Damned Man
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
Minos– a judge in the underworld

40. Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo
The
Saved
Sistine Chapel-- Michelangelo

41. La Pieta
Michelangelo
1500

42. David
Michelangelo
1504
Did you know that David was supposed to be placed on the top of a church in Florence?
It was commissioned by the de Medici family who were so impressed that they decided to leave it in the piazza in front of the church so that the public could see it up close.

43. Moses
Michelangelo

44. Unfinished Slaves - Michelangelo

45. Unfinished Pietas…

47. The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Women Painters
Sofonisba Anguissola (pictured right): first woman artist to gain world renown

48. The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Women Painters
Artemisia Gentileschi (self portrait below) paints strong, heroic women (see right).
Judith Slaying Holofernes ( ) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence