Artwork and Artist of the Renaissance and Baroque Period

2. Renaissance
• Period in Europe (14th – 17th century) regarded as the
cultural bridge between middle age and modern history.
• The birth of “secular art”(worldly things). Focus on realistic
and humanistic art.
• Renaissance art was characterized by accurate anatomy
(symmetry and balance), scientific perspective, and deeper
landscape.
• As the classical Greeks believed in the harmonious
development of the person through a sound mind, by the
practice of athletics, the Renaissance held up the ideal of
the well-rounded person, knowledgeable in a number of
fields such as philosophy, science, arts, including painting
and music – and who applies his/her knowledge to
productive and creative activity.

3. St. Peter’s Basilica
• Most Renowned work of
renaissance
architecture
• Papal Enclave (Vatican)
• Designed by Donato
Bramante,
Michelangelo, Carlo
Maderno and Gian
Lorenzo Bernini

5. Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
• Italian painter, sculptor,
architect and poet
• Considered to be the greatest
living artist in his lifetime and
one of the greatest artist of all
time.
• Artworks: Pieta, Bacchus,
Moses, David, Dying Slave,
Dawn and Dusk.
• Most influential fresco in history
of western art: Genesis and
Last Judgement on the altar of
the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

7. PIETA
• Portrayal of pain and
redemption
• Represented by seated
Madonna holding Christ
body in her arms.

8. Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452- 1519)
• Italian painter, architect,
scientist and mathematician.
• Know as the ultimate
renaissance man.
• Considered to be one of the
greatest painters of all time.
• Artworks: The Last Supper
(Most reproduced painting of all
time), Mona Lisa (The most
famous and parodied portrait)
• Other works: The Vitruvian mar,
The Adoration of the Magi,
Virgin of the Rocks.

9. The Last Supper

10. MONA LISA
• Portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, the wife of
Francesco del Giocondo
• Pronounced in modern
Italian as “Monna Lisa”
• Mona = My Lady,
Madame

11. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(Raphael) (1483-1520)
• Italian painter and architect.
• Know as the ultimate
renaissance man.
• His work is admired through
interpreting the divine and
incorporating Christian
doctrines.
• Formed the trinity of great
masters of that period.
• Artworks: The Sistine Madonna,
The school of Athens and The
Transfiguration.

12. TRANSFIGURATION
• Last Painting which he
worked on up to his
death.
• Commissioned by
Cardinal Giulio de Medici
(Late Pope Clement VII).
• Conceived as an
Altarpiece for Narbonne
Cathedral in France.

13. Donato di Niccolo di Betto
Bardi (Donatello) (1386- 1466)
• Italian sculptor of Florence.
• Arworks: Bas – relief, David,
Statue of St. George,
Equestrian Monument of
Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc,
and the Fest of Herod.

14. DAVID
• Image of the Biblical Hero
“David”
• First know free standing
nude statue.
• Made out of Bronze.
• Another david was made
of Marble

15. BAS - RELIEF

17. Baroque
• Derived from the Portuguese word “Barocco” which mean
“irregularly shaped pearl or stone”
• The Roman Catholic Church highly encouraged the Baroque
style to propagate Christianity while the aristocracy used Baroque
style for architecture and arts to impress visitors, express triumph,
power, and control.
• Baroque painting illustrated key elements of Catholic dogma,
either directly in Biblical works or indirectly in imaginary or
symbolic work. The gestures are broader than Mannerist
gestures: less ambiguous, less arcane, and mysterious.
• Baroque sculpture, typically larger than life size, is marked by a
similar sense of dynamic movement, along with an active use of
space.
• Baroque architecture was designed to create spectacle and
illusion. Thus the straight lines of the Renaissance were replaced
with flowing curves.

18. Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi
da Caravaggio (1571- 1610)
• Better know as Caravaggio
• Outcast in the society because of
his own actions, lack of modesty
and reverence for religious
subject in his own paintings.
• Started out as a specialist in his
paintings of still life (inanimate
objects)
• Models were either himself or
young persons who have an air
of being promising but wicked.
• Artworks: Supper at Emmaus,
Conversation of St. Paul and
Entombment of Christ.

19. Conversion of St. Paul
• Painting on the story of
Saul of Tarsus converted
to an apostle of Christ.
• The conversion on the
road to Damascus.

20. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
• Italian artist and first baroque
artist.
• He practiced architecture, and
sculpture, painting, stage design,
and was also a playwright.
• First artwork date from his 8th
birthday.
• Artworks: The Goat Amalthea
with the infant Jupiter and a faun,
Damned Soul, and Blessed Soul.
• He also made a sculpture of
David
• Other works: Piazza San Pietro
and Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

21. Ecstasy of St. Teresa
• Made out of Marble
• Located in Cornaro
Chapel Santa Maria della
Vittoria (Rome)
• Pictures Saint Teresa of
Avila

22. Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640)
• Flemish (Dutch / Belgian)
Baroque painter.
• Well known for his paintings of
mythical and figurative subjects,
landscapes, portraits, and
Counter- Reformation altarpieces
• Artworks were mostly religious
subjects, history paintings of
magical creatures, and hunt
scenes.
• Artworks: Samson and Delilah,
Landscape with a Tower, Portrait
of Helene Fourment, and The
Three Graces

23. Portrait of Helene Fourment
• She was the wife of Peter
Paul Rubens

24. The Three Graces
• The painting was held in
the personal collection of
the artist until his death,
then in 1666 it went to the
Royal Alcazar of Madrid,
before hanging in the
Museo del Prado.

25. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van
Rijn (1606-1669)
• Dutch realist, painter and etcher.
• Interested in spiritual values and
often chooses religious subjects.
• Rembrandt shares with Rubens
the revolution whereby painting
came to depict the more personal
aspects of the painter: his own
home and his family.
• Rembrandt had produced over
600 paintings, nearly 400
etchings, and 2000 drawings.
• His well- known work was his
“Self portrait in Old Age”.

26. Self - Portrait
• A painting of his self

27. Diego Velasquez (1599- 1660)
• One of the finest masters of
composition and one of the most
important painters of the Spanish
Golden Age.
• The passion for still life frequently
emerges in Velasquez’s art.
• Artworks: The Surrender of
Breda, Las Meninas (The maids
of honour), Los Borachos (The
Drinkers), and Maria Theresa.

28. Las Meninas
(The maids of honour)
• Created this work 4 years
before his death.
• Served as a European
Baroque period art.
• Margaret Theresa, the
eldest daughter of the
new Queen is the subject
of the painting