1. Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance

2. Artistic Renaissance in Italy Sought to imitate nature; humans became the focus of attention New techniques in painting –Frescoes- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints –Massacio considered the first masterpieces of early Renaissance art New Renaissance Style Developed –Stressed the technical side of painting –Investigation of human movement & anatomy to realistically portray the person

4. SCULPTURE & ARCHITECTURE

5. Stunning Advances in Sculpture & Architecture Donatello spent time in Rome studying & copying the statues of the Greeks & Romans. Architecture also took on this new style seeking to create architecture that provides comfort and fits human needs. Like painters and sculptors, architects sought to reflect a human centered world. By the end of the fifteenth century, Italian painters, sculptors, and architects had created a new artistic world.

7. Masters of the Italian Renaissance Final stage of Italian Renaissance painting, the High Renaissance, took place between 1490 and 1520 Three artistic giants –Leonardo da Vinci –Raphael –Michelangelo

8. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and mathematician Mastered the art of realistic painting and even dissected human bodies to better see how nature worked Goal to create idealized forms that would capture the perfection of nature & the individual

12. Raphael 1483-1520 At the age of 25 was known as one of Italy’s best painters. Known for his madonna’s or pictures of the Virgin Mary The School of Athens is one of his most famous frescoes, found in the Vatican.

13. Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect. Was hired by the Pope to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel It took him four years to complete Reveals an ideal type of human being with perfect proportions

14. David 1501-1504 Location: Gallery in Florence

15. Sistine Chapel. 1508-1512

16. Creation of Adam

17. Other Renaissance Artists Jan Van Eyck- The Arnolfini Marriage Albrecht Durer – Self Portrait

19. Johannes Gutenberg From Germany Printed the first European book from movable type in approximately 1455 By 1500 over a thousand printers in Europe. Almost 40,000 titles had been published- over half of these were religious. Printing allowed European civilization to compete with China for the first time. The Chinese had invented printing much earlier.