Arts Of The Renaissance And Baroque Period PDF

ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIOD S Presented By Group 2 (Arts)  Renaissance Period (1400- 1600) The term Renaissance originated from the Latin word 'Renaistre'. It means rebirth , revival or new beginning. Renaissance was the period of eco...

ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE PERIOD S Presented By Group 2 (Arts)  Renaissance Period (1400- 1600) The term Renaissance originated from the Latin word 'Renaistre'. It means rebirth , revival or new beginning. Renaissance was the period of economic progress. The period stirred enthusiasm for the study of anciet philosophy and artistic values. Renaissance Period Italian Renaissance began in the late 14th century. It was an era of great artistic and intellectual achievement with the birth of secular art. The focus was on realistic and humanistic art. Renaissance art was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective, and deeper landscape. during this period was characterized by its symmetry Architecture The Renaissance was a periodand of artistic balance experimentation. It brought man into full view just like the human figure in greek art. Renaissance art marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the early modern age. In many parts of Europe, Early Renaissance art was created in parallel with Late Medieval art. By 1500, the Renaissance style prevailed.  Famous Renaissance Artworks and Artists  Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and port. He was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he was considered as one of the greatest artists of all time. His outstanding works as sculptor were the following: Pieta, Bacchus, Moses, David, Dying Slave, Dawn, and Dusk. Two of his best known works The Pieta and David. Michelangelo convinces himself and his spectators of the divine quality and the significance of these figures by means of earthly and perfect beauty, but of course, these are human standards.  Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452-1519) Mostly known as Leonardo Da Vinci, was a painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. He is known as the ultimate “Renaissance man” because of his intellect, interest, talent and his expression of humanist and classical values. He is widely considered to be one of the great painters of all time and perhaps the modt diversely talented person to have ever lived. His well known works were: The Last Supper (the most reproduced religious painting of all time), and the Mona Lisa (the most famous and parodied portrait)  Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520) Generally known in English 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. Raphael contributed many high-quality works of art, including painting and architectural designs. His famous works were The Sistine Madonna, The School of Athens, and The Transfiguration (his most famous artwork and last painting he worked up to his death)  Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello) Donatello(1386-1466) was one of the Italian great artists of the period. He was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence. He revolutionised sculpture both through his inventive treatment of imagery, and his mastery of an extraordinary range of materials – including marble and stone, bronze, wood, terracotta and stucco as well as unusual His works included mixed media. statues and relief: David, Statue of the following St. George, Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc, and The Feast of Herod "Pieta" by Michelangelo "Monalisa" by Leonardo da Vinci In Pieta, Michelangelo Mona Lisa stems from a approached the subject which description by Renaissance art until then had been given form historian Giorgo Vasari, who mostly from north of the Alps, wrote, "Leonardo undertook to where the portrayal of pain had paint for Francesco del always been connected with the Giocondo the portrait of Mona idea of redemption as Lisa, his wife. This became represented by the seated Madonna and its contraction Madonna holding Christ's body Mona. The title of the painting, "The Transfiguration" by "David" by Donatello Raphael The painting exemplifies David features a freestanding Raphael's development as an nude sculpture of the King of artist and the culmination of his Israel. David is displayed as career. The subject is combined almost completely nude except with an additional episode from for his boots and a hat topped the Gospel in the lower part of with a laurel. According to the painting. historians, said sculpture is the first nude sculpture made since antiquity.  Additional Renaissance art is the art of calm and beauty. Its creations are perfect - they reveal nothing forced or inhibited, uneasy or agitated. Each form has been born easily, free, and complete. Everything breathes satisfaction, and we are surely not mistaken in seeing in this heavenly calm and content the highest artistic expression and spirit of that age. BAROQUE ART (1600-1800) The term Baroque was derived from the word "Barocco" which means "Irregularly shaped pearl or stone" It describes a fairly complex idioms and focuses on painting, sculpture, and architecture. Baroque was a period of artistic styles in exaggerated motion, drama, tension and grandeur. The style started in Rome, Italy, and spread most of Europe  Famous Baroque Artworks and Artists  He was better known as Caravaggio. He was an Italian artist who wanted to deviate from the classical masters of the Renaissance. He was an outcast in his society, because of his own actions and the lack of modesty and reverence for religious subjects in his own paintings. Perhaps he started out as a specialist in his paintings of still life, especially of fruits. Michelangelo Merisi or Among his famous paintings were: Supper at Amerighi da Caravaggio Emmaus, Conversion of St. Paul, and Entombment of Christ. (1571-1610)  Bernini was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. He practiced architecture and sculpture, painting, stage design, and was also a playwright. He was the greatest Baroque sculptor and architect as seen in his design of the Piazza San Pietro in front of the Basilica. It is one of his modt innovative and successful architectural The famous designs. Ecstasy of St. Teresa was his Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598- greatest achievement and the Colonade of the Piazza of St. Peter's Rome. Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was well known for his paintings of mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes, portraits, and Quote Counter-Reformation altarpieces. His commissioned works were mostly religious subjects, history paintings of magical creatures, and hunt scenes His famous works were: Samson and Delilah, Landscape with a Tower, Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Helene Fourment, and The Threee Graces. (1577-1640) Rembrandt was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter, and etcher. He is generally considered as one of the greatest Quote painters and printmakers in European art. He followed no particular faith, but was interested in spiritual values and Rembrandt Hisoften chooses concept religious of himself subjects. continued to deepen in grasp and subtlety, while his technique Harmenszoon van grew more daring His well-known work was his "Self portrait in Old Age." Rijin (1606-1669)  Velasquez of Spain developed out of the Baroque. He was one of the finest masters of composition and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Velasquez was the case of a painter who discovered his avocation almost at the very start of his career. The passion for still life frequently emerges in Velasquez's His famous works were: The art.Surrender of Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) Breda, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour), Los Barachos (The Drinker), and Maria "Conversion of St. Paul" "Ectasy of St. Teresa" by by Caravaggio Bernini St. Paul was converted to She is reclining and looking up Christianity on his way to as a small angel stands over Damascus, in the 30s of the first her. He holds an arrow as century A.D.. On his journey to though he is about to pierce her Damascus, the Resurrected heart. Around the two figures, Christ appeared to him and it there is a shower of golden was this encounter that brought light. The sculpture is displayed about his dramatic and in the Church of Santa Maria immediate conversion. della Vittoria in Rome, Italy.  "Portrait of Helen "Las Meninas-(The Fourment" by Rubens maids of honour)" by Velasquez Helena Fourment with a "Self-Portrait" by The central figure is that of the carriage is a 1639 painting by five-year-old infanta Margarita Peter Paul Rubens, showing his Rembrandt Teresa, daughter of King Philip second wife Helena Fourment, IV and his second wife, Maria their son Frans and a carriage. It In this example, painted when Anna. The child is flanked by was given to John Churchill, 1st Rembrandt was fifty-four, the two meninas (“ladies-in- Duke of Marlborough in 1706, artist was unsparing in waiting”). Also present in the possibly by the city of Brussels. depicting the signs of aging in foreground are two dwarfs and his own face, building up the a large dog, while other paint in high relief to convey his courtiers appear elsewhere in furrowed brow, the heavy the picture. pouches beneath his eyes, and  Art Process 01 02 Baroque aims to give an effect that The Baroque Period in art history wants to carry the viewers away with came directly after the Renaissance. the force of its impact. It gives not a generally enhanced vitality, but Mass and movement are the excitement, ecstasy, and intoxication. principles of the Baroque style. It did Its impact was intended to be not aim for perfection or the beauty momentary, while that of the of growth, but rather focused on an Renaissance was slower but more event. Artworks from this era showed enduring, making the viewers want to exaggerated emotions on the linger forever in a presence. portrayed experience. Exaggeration can be seen in the forms, gesture, THANK YOU!