Lesson 8:
Rational Order and
the Resurgence of
the Classics
Renaissance
Period
Johannes Gutenberg
He produced the
earliest printed Bible
in 1455.
Italy
It was the site of an
artistic,
humanistic,
technological, and scientific
transformation known as
the Renaissance.
Robert Campin
He was a Flemish artist
who were among the first
to explore the use of oil
paint.
Renaissance Period
It brought innovations
in materials, technique,
and the use of different
painting surfaces.
Merode Altarpiece
It is made up of
paintings in three panels
that were meant for
devotions in the home.
Leon Battista Alberti
A practicing architect
who wrote the treatise
Della Pittura.
Giovanni di Mone Cassai
A painter known for
his innovative approach
to linear perspective.
Primavera
It displays multiple unity
– clusters for mythological
figures as though they are
tableaus in a scene for play.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
He made doors of gilded
bronze portraying scenes from
the Old Testament in the East
Portal with astounding spatial
depth and perspective.
Gates of
Paradise
Tempietto
It means a little temple
located
inside
the
cloisters of the San Pietro
Church in Rome.
Tempietto
Gattamelata
Pieta