Renaissance Runner
The Renaissance (1350-1715)
This movement first began in Italy after
the quick healing from the Black Death, and
th
soon spread to Western Europe by the 16
century.
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Paintings
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On
Detail
Arnolfini
Primavera
Wedding
- 1482 - 1434
 APanel
wedding
painting
certificate but the identity of the couple is
 unknown
Allegory Of Spring
 Dog
Painted
represents
for Lorenzo
fidelity
di Pier Francesco de’ Medici (Lorenzo’s
 Mirror
cousin)represents purity but also shows that there’s a witness
 Wrote
Shows‘Jan
some
vanmythological
Eyck was here’
figures,
on painting
such as the Roman
 Contains
Godess Venus,
a lot ofindetail,
a garden
ie. sandals and the oranges
 Largest mythological painting of Renaissance
Jan van Eyck
Sandro Botticelli
 Born in late 1300s, died In mid-1400s
 Flemish
Born in mid 1400’s, died in 1510
 Created
Italian painter
oil paints
 Made
Apprenticed
religioustoscenes
Filippoand
Lippi
townspeople
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Arch
Paintings
School Of Athens - 1509 – 1511
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Adoration Of The Trinity - 1511
Fresco
53 in
by 47uses
in panel
oil panting perspective to create
One of the
major
of one-point
Arch top
a 3D effect

Commissioned
chapel dedicated
Brought
more realismfor
to aRenaissance
art to the Trinity
the Saints
Includedand
Plato,
Aristotle, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and

Durer in painting
himself in the painting.

Contains the saints,
RafaelloAlbrecht
(Raphael)
Sanzio
Durer
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Italian
architect
 painter
Born inand
1471,
died in 1528
Born
in
Urbino
in
1483,
died in 1520

Family from Hungary
Student
of Michelangelo

Agnes
Frey was his and
wife Leonardo
Commissioned
Pope
Julius elementary
II

Painting,by
wood
carving,
copper
Father
Giovannitown
Santi,
who was
alsoWolgemut
a painter
 was
Apprenticed
painter:
Michael
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Sculptures
Mary Magdalene - 1455
• 6 foot-tall wood sculpture
Madonna and Child – 1501- 1504
•Depicts Mary Magdalene, a Christian religious figure
• Only
to leave
Italy
during
lifetime,
•She
hassculpture
her hands
above
her
chesthislike
she isso
helped
his art
praying
or spread
reaching
for something
•
Located
in
Church
Our Lady (Bruges)
•Appears weary andofstarved
• Now surrounded in bullet proof glass
•Brought
back wood sculpture at the time
• Depicts the Virgin gazing at her child, giving the
•Continues
to be
mystery
to who
commissioned
feeling that
sheaknew
of hisas
tragic
destiny.
the sculpture
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Donatello
•  Italian
Italiansculptor
sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
•  Born
ininlate
1300s,
diedand
in 1466
Born
Caprese
in 1475
died in 1564
Apprentice
to Domenicoworkshop
Ghirlandaio for 3 years
•  Trained
in a goldsmith
StudiedLorenzo
anatomy Ghiberti
•  Assisted
Studiedwith
in Medici
household
•  Worked
Brunelleschi
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Literature
William Shakespeare
• English poet, playwright, and author
Gargantua and Pantagruel – 1532-1564
• Unknown birth day, died in 1616
• Five comedic fiction novels about the adventures
• Married Anne Hathaway and had three children
of the giant Gargantua and his son, Pantagruel
• Has many continually well-known works
•Utilized comical satire of the Renaissance society,
• Influenced future fiction
including education, religion, and secularity
Othello - 1603
• One of the earliest fiction novels of the
•Play centered around Othello and his wife and Iago, the
Renaissance
antagonist
• Inspired several other fictional works and helped
• Iago attempts to take power from Othello by
cause the burst of creativity in the European
manipulating him to think that Desdemona is unfaithful
Renaissance
• In the end, Othello kills Desdemona and then himself
Francois Rabelais
• Has lived on even until today
• French humanist author and doctor
• First of its type of story, and then inspired infinite works
• Born in 1483, died in 1553
today
• Wrote about satire
• Has words Shakespeare made up
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Architecture
Church
of Sant'Andrea
- 1472
Dome
of the
Florence Cathedral
- 1419
•
Commissioned
by
Ludovico
Gonzaga.
•Designed in a competition in 1419
It was one of the earlier architectural pieces of the
• •Competition
was for the Florence Cathedral, which
Renaissance
wasn’t
finished
yet
• Brought
back the
ancient ideas of Roman architecture
• •Has
over
4
million
bricks
is 45one
meters
widelast
and
It is located in Mantua,
Italy,and
and was
of Alberti's
isdesigns.
the tallest building in Florence
The design
of the church
speculated
• •Largest
masonry
domeiseven
todayto have inspired or
design ofshift
a fewinchurches,
including
the
• affected
Causedthe
paradigm
the limits
of architecture
famous St. Peter's Basilica.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Alberti
• • Italian
Italianarchitect
goldsmith
and clockmaker
and poet
• • Born
Borninin1404,
latedied
1300s
and died in mid-1400s
in 1472
• • Was
Wasborn
at first
architect
laternot
thanan
some
other Renaissance architects
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