this covers the Italian Artist Charts: Please, remember to use the internet to identify key artists.
11773331 | Petrarch | his sonnets to Laura and Africa demonstrated his conection to both emotions and antiquity of the Renaissancd | |
11773332 | Donatello | Father of Renaissance scuplture; his bronze David was the first free standing scuplture since antiquity | |
11773333 | Boccaccio | father of renaissance novels; his Decameron illustrate the lost of spiritual direction of Italy during Black Death | |
11773334 | Giotto | Father of Renaissance painting; first use of perspective especially in his works of St. Francis of Assissi | |
11773335 | Masaccio | built upon Giotto's foundation in painting; his Rendering of the Tribute Money illustrated the inner religious struggle the Early Renaissance painters illustrated | |
11773336 | Botticelli | his basically illustrated the beginning of the High Renaissance; his Primavera and Birth of Venus were great works; interestingly, he had a religious conversion and he destroyed most of his earlier pagan works | |
11773337 | da Vinci | the ideal universal man; today his best known work were Mona Lisa and The Last Supper; he was one of the Big Three High Renaissance artists | |
11773338 | Michelangelo | the quitensential Renaissance artist, sculptor, and architect | |
11773339 | Raphael | important artist of the High Renaissance, his pudginess and exaggeration of features foreshadowed Mannerism; important work is Schoo of Athens | |
11773340 | Brunelleschi | key Early Renaissance architect who designed the Duomo in Florence | |
11773341 | Bramante | key High Renaissance; designed the The Tempietto in Rome and aided in St. Peter's Basilica |