 In your previous lesson you were taught about the
paintings, sculptures and architectural designs of
theWestern ClassicalArtTraditions. Now, look at
these pictures.These are just some of the
information sources you might have learned.
Identify it by writing S if the artwork is an example
of sculpture, P if it is a painting andA if it is an
example of architectural design.

 Renaissance was the period of economic
progress.The period stirred enthusiasm
for the study of ancient philosophy and
artistic values.
 It was an era of great artistic and
intellectual achievement with the birth
of secular art.The focus was on realistic
and humanistic art.

 Michelangelo was an Italian
sculptor, painter, architect, and
poet. He was considered the
greatest living artist in his lifetime,
and since then he was considered
as one of the greatest artists of all
time.

Pieta, Bacchus, Moses, David,
Dying Slave, Dawn and Dusk.
Two of his best-known works,
The Pieta and David, were
sculpted before he turned
thirty.

 He also created two of the most
influential works in fresco in the
history ofWestern art: the scenes
from Genesis on the ceiling and the
Last Judgment on the altar wall of
the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

 In Pieta, Michelangelo approached
the subject which until then had
been given form mostly from north
of the Alps, where the portrayal of
pain had always been connected
with the idea of redemption as
represented by the seated Madonna
holding Christ’s body in her arms.

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 DaVinci was a
painter, architect, scientist, and
mathematician. He was
popularized in present times
through the novel and movie,
“DaVinci Code.”

 He was known as the ultimate
“Renaissance man” because of his
intellect, interest, talent, and his
expression of humanist and classical
values.
 He was also considered to be one of
the greatest painters of all time and
perhaps the most diversely talented
person to have ever lived..”

 The Last Supper (the most
reproduced religious painting of all
time), and the Mona Lisa (the most
famous and most parodied portrait).
 His other works were:TheVitruvian
Mar,The Adoration of the Magi, and
theVirgin of the Rocks.

 “Mona Lisa” stems from a
description who wrote, “Leonardo
undertook to paint for Francesco del
Giocondo the portrait of Mona Lisa,
his wife. Mona, in Italian, is a polite
form of address originating as
Madonna- similar to Ma’am,
madame, or My Lady in English.

 Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of
the High Renaissance period. His work was
admired for its clarity of form and ease of
composition and for its visual achievement of
interpreting the Divine and incorporating
Christian doctrines.
 Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da
Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great
masters of that period.

The Sistine Madonna,
The School of Athens,
andThe
Transfiguration.

 TheTransfiguration was Raphael’s last
painting which he worked on up to his
death. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio
de Medici, the late Pope ClementVII I, the
painting was conceived as an altarpiece
for the Narbonne Cathedral in France.The
subject was combined with an Additional
episode from the Gospel in the Lower part
of the painting.

Donatello was one of the Italian
great artists of the period. He
was an early Renaissance Italian
sculptor from Florence. He is
known for his work in bas- relief,
a form of shallow relief
sculpture.

His works included the
following statues and relief:
David, Statue of St. George,
Equestrian Monument of
Gattamelata, Prophet Habacuc,
andThe Feast of Herod.

Instructions: Group the
artworks in the box according
to its artist.Write the title of
the artwork on the column
box where they belong.

 Experience the great artistry of Renaissance
period where artists strived to depict people
and objects in a true-to-life way.
 Materials: photo, pencil, colored paper, old
magazine, short bond paper, scissors, glue