Renaissance 1
It was the center of northern Renaissance.
Netherlands
French writer who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
They used stories from ancient history and classical mythology as their subjects.
Renaissance writers and artists
Considered as Spain’s greatest Renaissance writer.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Many regarded him as the world’s finest dramatist and the greatest writer in the English language.
William Shakespeare
He was supported by Pope Julius II to paint religious scenes in Vatican city.
Michelangelo
He became famous for his paintings of Madonnas.
Raphael
A story character who is a kind, elderly gentleman who spends so much time reading medieval tales that he loses his sense of reality.
Don Quixote
It let artists work more slowly and allowed them to obtain more lifelike effects.
Oil Paint
He created dramatic paintings of farm workers and crowds of townspeople at work and play.
Pieter Bruegel
They used their creativity to serve the Church and express their religious feelings.
Medieval artists
Used in ancient and medieval times where they freshly painted in plastered walls.
Fresco
He was a German court painter to the Holy Roman Emperors from 1512 to 1528.
Albrecht Dürer
They emphasized more realistic details and precision instead of classical themes and styles.
Northern Artists
Statue of Mary holding the body of Jesus after crucifixion which gained Michelangelo instant fame.
Pieta
They turned back to the Romanesque style as they saw Gothic cathedrals as unrealistic because it seemed to defy the laws of balance
Architects
Florentine painter who first used the realistic style that seemed odd to medieval perspective.
Giotto
He used a mathematical system where lines met at a certain focal point that created an illusion of space and distance.
Masaccio
German painter who illustrated books including Erasmus’ Praise of Folly
Hans Holbein the Younger
He discovered that painters could use mathematical laws in planning their pictures and thus show perspective accurately.
Filippo Brunelleschi
Discovery of how to achieve perspective (the impression of depth and distance on the flat surface of painting.
Realism
French king who supported Leonardo da Vinci in the arts.
Francis I
A kind of paint that dried too quickly in fresco that did not allow painters to change or correct what they had painted.
Tempera
French writer who wrote about friendship, education, and other subjects that interested him.
Michel de Montaigne
He studied natural objects and this approach eventually became important in shaping of modern scientific investigation.
Leonardo da Vinci