Chapter 7, Section 3

• Renaissance Art

Artists in Renaissance Italy

• Medieval art used symbolic images

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• Renaissance art showed people as they would appear in real life

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• Renaissance artist also used perspective, or a method that makes a drawing look three dimensional

Sandro Botticelli

• Born in 1445

• Famous Florence Artist

• Well known for painting frescoes, or paintings on wet plaster with watercolor paint

Leonardo da Vinci

• Born in 1452

• His work as an artist alone would have made him famous

• Most famous works are The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa

Raphael Sanzio

• Famous for his frescoes in the Vatican Palace

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• A rival of Leonardo da Vinci

• Famous for his paintings and his sculptures, including a sculpture of Moses

Titian

• Artist of the late Renaissance from Venice

• Extremely famous and wealthy during his time

• Painted portraits as well as religious and mythological scenes

• Used rich colors that were contrasted with extremely dark shadows

Jan Van Eyck

• Birth date unknown

• Worked in Bruges, Belgium (Known as Flanders during the Renaissance)

• Master of oil painting

• Created brilliant colors that were said to sparkle like jewels or stained glass

Albrecht Dürer

• From Germany

• One of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance

• He was a master painter, but he is best known for his engravings, or an image carved of metal, wood, or stone. From the engraving, the image is printed onto paper