renaissance Flashcards
an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. 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. A number of his works in paintings, sculpture, and architecture rank among the famous in existence.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
the portrayal of pain that had always been connected with the idea of redemption as represent by the seated Madonna holding Christ’s body in her arms.
pieta
marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along
David
is somewhat over-sized and depicts Bacchus the Roman god of wine, in a reeling pose suggestive of drunkenness
Bacchus
seems to be sinking into a deep sleep.
dying slave
only female nude Michelangelo ever sculpted. A youthfully smooth, yet powerful body turns towards the observer. He features are by no means serene: the dark eyes are deep set in their shadowy sickest. She wears a turban and a band around her chest in the style of slaves’ garments.
dawn
In the spirit of an allegory of time, the deceased were coupled with figures representing the times of the day whose gender was determined by Italian grammar
dusk
He is known as the ultimate “Renaissance man” because of his intellect, interest, talent, and his expression of humanist and classical values.
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leonardo da Vinci
late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world’s most famous paintings.
the last supper
half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world
Mona Lisa
a pen and ink drawing done on paper with a wash over metal-point accompanied by handwritten notes. In the drawing, two male figures are superimposed upon each other
VIRTRUVIAN MAR
name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity if Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they knelt down and paid him homage.
adoration of the magi
Is the name used for two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, and of a composition which is identical except for several significant details
virgin of the rocks
was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance Period. His works was admired for its clarity of forms and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of interpreting the Divine and incorporating Christian doctrines.
RAFFAELLO SANZIO DA URBINO
a famous fresco painted by Raphael in the Apostolic
school of athens
