This document summarizes key artists from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe. It discusses Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Raphael from the Renaissance, known for works like the Pieta, Mona Lisa, and The Transfiguration. For the Baroque, it outlines Donatello, Caravaggio, Bernini who did sculptures like David, and painters like Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velasquez who were notable for their portraits, landscapes and religious works. The document also briefly defines the Renaissance as a period of economic progress and rediscovery of ancient philosophy, and the Baroque as a period of dramatic and exaggerated grandeur encouraged by the Catholic Church.

2. 1.Analyze art elements & principles in the
production of work following a specific art style.
2.Identify distinct characteristics of arts during
the Renaissance and Baroque Periods.
3.Identify representative artists from
Renaissance and Baroque Periods.

4. Unlocking of
Difficulties
•Baroque– from the Portuguese
word “barroco” (an irregular
shaped pearl or stone)
•Renaissance – comes from the
word “renaitre” (rebirth, revival,
and rediscovery)

5. Renaissance was the period of
economic progress. The period
stirred enthusiasm for the
study of ancient philosophy
and artistic values.

7. Michelangelo was 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.

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11. Pieta depicts the body of Jesus on
the lap of his mother Mary after the
Crucifixion.
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.

12. Leonardo Da Vinci was a
architect,
and
painter,
scientist,
mathematician. He was
popularized in present
times through the novel
and movie, “Da Vinci
Code.” 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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15. “Mona Lisa” stems from a
description, “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, madamme, or My
Lady in English. This became
Madonna and its contraction Mona.

16. 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
the interpreting the
Divine and incorporating
Christian doctrines.

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20. The Transfiguration was Raphael’s
last painting on which he worked on up
to his death. Commissioned by Cardinal
Giulio de Medici, the late Pope Clement
VII, the painting was conceived as an
altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in
France. The painting exemplifies
Raphael’s development as an artist and
the culmination of his career.

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

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23. a period of artistic styles in
motion, drama, tension, and
Baroque was
exaggerated
grandeur.
The Roman Catholic Church highly
encouraged the Baroque style to propagate
Christianity while the aristocracy used
Baroque style for architecture and arts to
impress visitors, express triumph and power.

25. He was better known as
Caravaggio. 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.
Caravaggio’s models at
this period were either
himself or young
persons who have an air
of being promising but
wicked.

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28. Bernini was an Italian artist
and the first Baroque
artist. His first artworks
date from his 8th birthday.
He made a sculpture of
“David” was for Cardinal
Borghese which
Michelangelo’s David.
is
strikingly different from
The
famous “Ecstasy of St.
Teresa” was his greatest
achievement and the
Colonade of the Piazza of
St. Peter’s Rome.

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32. Rubens was well known
for his paintings of
mythical and figurative
subjects, landscapes,
portraits, and Counter-
Reformation altarpieces.
His commissioned works
subjects,
were mostly religious
history
of magical
and hunt
paintings
creatures,
scenes.

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35. Rembrandt was
considered as one of the
greatest painters and
printmakers in European
art. No artist has painted
himself as often as did
known work was
“Self portrait in
Age”. Rembrandt
produced over
nearly
and
Rembrandt. His well-
his
Old
had
600
400
2000
paintings,
etchings,
drawings.

36. Velasquez of Spain
the Baroque.
was one of
finest masters
developed out of
He
the
of
composition and
one of the most
important
of the
painters
Spanish
Golden Age.

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