Outline

• Thesis- Artists during the Italian Renaissance were exponentially more popular due to the change in style of art into a religious outlook, but the profession developed into a more exclusive occupation because of how the work became remarkably lifelike.

  
  Filippo Brunelleschi

  • He was an architect and sculptor.
  • "a Florentine hero on account of the celebrated dome"(Web Gallery of Art)
  • Brunelleschi was trained as a goldsmith and greatly enjoyed it. (Life of an Artist)
  • Art work:
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  • Went from a geometric style to a rhythmic sculptural style (Web Gallery of Art)

  
  Donatello

  • He sculpted bronze and marble
  • His earliest sculpture was of David.
  • His early sculptures were of a Gothic style
  • Works of art:
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  Bertoldo di Giovanni

  • He was a pupil of Donatello
  • "The teacher of Michaelangelo since he was employed by Lorenzo de Medici, Il Magnifico"(Web Gallery of Art)
  • He was interested in classical sculpting
  • Art works:
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  Sandro Botticelli

  • He was an Italian painter
  • "His understanding of perspective and foreshortening, of architectural design and, indeed, of anatomy, were all that might have been expected of a man with such a background, but it is to the pure visual poetry of the outcome that he owes his fame"(Web Gallery of Art)
  • He experimented with pyramidal form
  • Did many works for Lorenzo Medici the Elder
    
  • Most notable painting was The Birth of Venus
  • The Adoration of the Magi gave him a great reputation for color, design, and composition(Life of an Artist)
  • Art works:
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Vittore Carpaccio

• His main works of art were done between 1490 and 1519
  
• He was ranked among the masters of the Venetian Renaissance
• His early influences were Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini (Vittore Carpaccio)
• "in later years Carpaccio appears to have been influenced by Cima da Conegliano" (Vittore Carpaccio)
• Did many paintings of the Virgin Mary
• Works of art:
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Leonardo da Vinci

• Considered the true Renaissance man
• He first worked in sculpture as a boy
• Apprentice to Andrea del Verocchio whose specialty was perspective (Museum of Science)
• Leonardo had a very picturesque was of drawing and painting.
• He used perspective and realistic techniques in his paintings which was different than what had been used then. (Museum of Science.)
• Chiaroscuro* and sfumato* are what he used a great deal to make his paintings and drawings so lifelike.
• His artwork was influenced by science(biology/anatomy) as well as dissections he made on dead human beings to make his art look so realistic
• The first piece he was ever paid to do was an altar piece for the chapel of the Palazzo Vecchio. (Web Gallery of Art)
• His first patron was Ludovico Sforza.
• Art works:
  Annunciation http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html (at 75%)
  Virigin of the Rocks http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html (at 50%)
  The Lady with the Ermine http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html (at 50%)
  The Last Supper http://www.wga.hu/support/viewer/z.html (at 50%)
  
  Michelangelo