Famous Renaisance Artwork

Famous Renaisance Artwork
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect,
musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer,
botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all
time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius,
perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist
ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man,
a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".
Artworks: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Bacchus, Adoration of the Magi and
Annunciation
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was

an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance
who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, he has since been held as one of
the greatest artists of all time. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his
versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often
considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with
his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.
Artworks: David, The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Pietà, and Bacchus
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect
of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of
composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of
great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an
unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work.
Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael
Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career.
Artworks: Saint George and the Dragon, Sistine Madonna, The School of Athens,
Galatea, and Aldobrandini Madonna
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as
Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. Born in Florence, he studied
classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in
sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of
Italy a long and productive career. He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco
and wax, and had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number.
Though his best-known works were mostly statues in the round, he developed a
new, very shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good deal of his output
was larger architectural reliefs.
Artworks: David, The Crucifixion, Judith and Holofernes, Virgin and Child, and
Penitent Magdalene
Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter,
the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in
Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore,
taken from the place of his birth. Other writers contemporary to his old age give
figures which would equate to birthdates between 1473 to after 1482. He reached
the old age of possibly between 88 or 94, or even more - according to different
sources.
Artworks: Bacchus and Ariadne, Assumption of the Virgin, Pastoral Concert, Venus
and Adonis, and The Entombment of Christ,
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples,

Malta, and Sicily between 1592 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic
observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of
lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting. Caravaggio trained as a
painter in Milan under Simone Peterzano who had himself trained under Titian. In
his twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where there was a demand for paintings to
fill the many huge new churches and palazzos being built at the time.
Artworks: Bacchus, Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), London, The Calling of St

Matthew, and Medusa
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally
considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the
most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great
wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when
Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque
style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise
to important new genres in painting. Having achieved youthful success as a portrait
painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial
hardships.
Artworks: The Night Watch, Artemisia, David and Uriah, Self-Portrait, and The
Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked
principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating
the Baroque style of sculpture. In addition, he painted, wrote plays, and designed
metalwork and stage sets. Bernini possessed the ability to depict dramatic
narratives with characters showing intense psychological states, but also to
organize large-scale sculptural works which convey a magnificent grandeur. His
skill in manipulating marble ensured that he would be considered a worthy
successor of Michelangelo, far outshining other sculptors of his generation,
including his rival, Alessandro Algardi.
Artworks: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, The Rape of Proserpina, Apollo and Daphne,
Aeneas, and Anchises
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the
leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and one of the most important painters
of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary
Baroque period, important as a portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of
scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the
Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating
in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas. From the first quarter of the
nineteenth century, Velázquez's artwork was a model for the realist and
impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet.
Artworks: Las Meninas, Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente, Portrait of a

Man, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, and Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an

extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality,
Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits,
landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In
addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with
nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated
humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV, King of Spain,
and Charles I, King of England.
Artworks: The Elevation of the Cross, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,
Assumption of the Virgin Mary, The Assumption of the Virgin, Alethea Talbot with
her Husband

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, was

Famous Baroque Artwork and Artist

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples,

Artworks: Bacchus, Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio), London, The Calling of St

Artworks: Las Meninas, Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente, Portrait of a

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an

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