Renaissance

1400-1600 CE
Renaissance
• Comes from the French for rebirth or
revival
• Started in Italy in the 1400s
• Transitional time period following the
Middle Ages when Europe saw a
revival of classical learnings and art
• A cultural high point with Italy at its
center
Who's who of the time
period
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo,
Donatello)
• Botticelli
• Jan Van Eyck
• El Greco
• William Shakespeare
• Galileo Galilei
Filippo Brunelleschi, Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy
Duomo, Filippo Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci
Self Portrait 1512 - 1515
Leonardo’s Mirror Writing “backwards”
“Virtruvian Man” Leonardo
The Accademia Venice, Italy
“Helicopter” Leonardo
“Cross Bow” Leonardo
“Embryo” Leonardo
“Human Anatomy” Leonardo
“Madonna of the Rocks” Leonardo (National Gallery, London)
“Mona Lisa” Leonardo
The Louvre Paris, France
“The Last Supper” Leonardo da Vinci
Santa Maria delle Grazie- Milan, Italy
Michelangelo
“Michelangelo” by Daniele da Volterra
“Pieta” Michelangelo
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City
“David” Michelangelo
The Accademia, Florence, Italy
The Sistine Chapel
Vatican City
“Creation of Adam” Center Panel of ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, The
Genesis Story
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, “Creation of Adam” Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel back wall “The Last Judgment” Michelangelo
St. Peter’s Basilica
Vatican City
The Basilica's Dome
Aerial view of St. Peter’s piazzo
Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City (Rome)
5.7 acres, holds 60,000 people
Designed by Michelangelo
Swiss Guards protest the
Vatican
Raphael
Self Portrait
“The School of Athens” Raphael
Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
Alexander
the Great
Socrates
Pythagoras
Plato
Raphael
Euclid
Aristotle
Ptolemy
“Cherubs” Raphael
Dresden, Germany
“The Sistine Madonna” Raphael
Dresden, Germany
Donatello
Self Bust
“David” Donatello
Palazzo del Popolo,
Florence, Italy
Botticelli
Self Portrait
“The Birth of Venus” Botticelli
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
“Praying Hands” Durer
Jan Van Eyck
Self Portrait “Man in Turban”
1433
“The Arnolfini Portrait” Van Eyck, National Gallery, London
“The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of Mystic Lamb” Van Eyck
St. Baron, Ghent, Belgium
El Greco
Self Portrait “Portrait of an Old Man”
1595
“View of Toledo” El Greco
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
THE END....kind of because now
it is your turn to pick a person of
the Renaissance of your own to
research:)