Italian Renaissance Artists

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