Outline Final Draft

• Definitions:
  Chiaroscuro-the distribution of light and shading/darkness in a picture/painting

  Sfumato- the gradual change of colors in a painting

  
  

  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 was a great beginning to an era of religious art work.

  • 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:
    Sacrifice of Isaac bronze relief
    Crucifix polychromed wood
    Dome of the Cathedral
  • Went from a geometric style to a rhythmic sculptural style (Web Gallery of Art)

  
  Donatello created masterpieces out of bronze and marble with religious background to them.

  • He sculpted bronze and marble
  • His earliest sculpture was of David.
  • His early sculptures were of a Gothic style
  • Works of art:
    Statue of David in marble
    Marzocco in stone
    St. Rossore in bronze

  
  Bertoldo di Giovanni created statues from mythological creatures and beings.

  • 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:
    Arion bronze statue
    Bellerophon and Pegasus bronze statue
    Hercules with the Apple of Hesperides bronze statue
    
    

  Sandro Botticelli was a well known painter whose paintings were more religious, but the most well known was that of a Roman goddess.

  • 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:
    The Virgin and the Child with Two Angels and the Young St. John the Baptist tempera on panel
    Adoration of the Magi tempera on panel
    St. Sebastian tempera on panek
    The Virgin and Child Enthroned
    The Birth of Venus

Vittore Carpaccio's art work were of story tales and legends.

• 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:
  The Annunciation
  Holy Conversion
  St. George and the Dragon
  
  

Leonardo da Vinci's art was religious as well as realistic and precise.

• 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
  Virigin of the Rocks
  The Lady with the Ermine
  The Last Supper
  Michelangelo
  
• Painted the Sistine Chapel
• Worked in the Medici Gardens when he was younger
• At around the age of 16, he had already completed two great works of art: The Battle of the Centaurs and Madonna of the Stairs
• His high point in sculpting was when he created the statue of David.
• Works of Art
  David marble statue
  Sistene Chapel: Last Judgement, Genesis, Prophets, Sibyls, Iqnudi, Spandreis, Lunettes, Triangles, Medallions
  Madonna and the Child marble statue