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World History -
Personalities of the Italian Renaissance
Early Renaissance
Petrarch (1304 - 1347)
(Fransesco) Petrarch is considered the "Father of the Renaissance."
Petrarch found old Roman works and studied them, and he also encouraged
others to study them. Petrarch wrote love poems to "Laura" (like
Dante's Beatrice). His poems were more realistic than the courtly
love poems of the troubadours. He was a Catholic, but held a more
secular view. Petrarch wrote constantly, and died while writing.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli was a writer. He wrote "The Prince."
Painters and Sculptors
Giotto (1276 - 1337)
Giotto was a painter. He began the trend of more life-like representations
of people in painting - more 3-D. (His paintings were too strange
for his lifetime, and were ignored until the Renaissance.)
GIOTTO: Wall paintings in the Cappella dell'Arena
in Padua, 1306.
Left: Faith. Right: The Mourning of Christ.
Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli was a 15th-century painter, notably the "Birth
of Venus."
BOTTICELLI: The Birth of Venus, 1485.
Painted for the Villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici.
Click the painting for an enlargement.
Donatello (1386 - 1466)
Donatello was a sculptor.
DONATELLO
Left: St. George, 1416. Marble statue from the Church of Or San
Michele, Florence.
Right: Herod's Feast, 1427. Gilt bronze relief from a font in S.
Giovanni, Siena.
High Renaissance
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Raphael (1483 - 1520)
Raphael was a painter, designed buildings, and studied the
ruins of Rome.
RAPHAEL, Pope Leo X (Medici)
with two cardinals - 1518
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RAPHAEL, Galatea - 1543
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art for an enlargement.
RAPHAEL, School of
Athens
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Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)
Michelangelo was a painter and sculptor, the Sistine Chapel.
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The Creation of Adam. 1508-1512
Section of ceiling of Sistine Chapel
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The Last Judgement. 1534-1541
Altar wall of Sistine Chapel
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David. 1501-1504
Marble, approx. 13' 5" high
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Study of the
Construction and
Control of a Wing
1490
Pen and ink
A bat-like wing with
flexible construction.
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Mona Lisa
1502 - 1503
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Proportions of the
Human Figure
After Vitruvius
1492
Pen and ink
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Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi designed the dome on the Florence Cathedral in
1420.
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Florence Cathedral - 1420
Dome design by BRUNELLESCHI
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1. What Was the Renaissance?
2. Personalities of the Italian
Renaissance
3. Renaissance Art
4. The Protestant Reformation
5. Martin Luther, Lutheranism
6. John Calvin, Calvinism
7. Anglicanism and King Henry
VIII
8. French Huguenots,
Summary of the Protestant Reformation
9. Renaissance and Reformation
Quotes
10. Most Important Invention
of the Renaissance
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