Binalatongan Community College
Brgy. Ilang San Carlos City, Pangasinan
Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEED)
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT)
LEARNING MODULE
Part III Lives and Works of Famous Masters in Visual and Performing Arts
Lesson 11: Worlds Renowned Visual Artists and Performing Arts
1. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Life
was born in 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
an apprentice in painting to Andrea del Verrocchio sculptor.
he painted portraits, invented machines of war, staged theatrical pageants,
and designed town plans and architectural structures.
Works
-Da Vinci painted:
The Baptism of Christ
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Mona Lisa
The Adoration of the Magi
St. John the Baptist
The Battle of the Anghiari
The Last Supper
2. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564)
Life
Born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, 40 miles outside Florence, Italy.
Works
Battle of the Centaurs
San Giovanni de Foirentini
Sleeping Cupid
Bacchus
Pieta
The Creation of Adam
3. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
Life
First child of Don Jose Ruiz Biasco, a painter, and Maria Picasso y Lopez.
Born on October 25, 1891 in Malaga, Spain.
Studied art in Barcelona and Paris in 1890.
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In 1905, he gave up portraying the world of the poor and instead turned to
charming depictions of circus players and harlequins.
In 1930’s, he became concerned with social and political theme as well as
symbolic etching.
1944, he joined the French Communist Party.
Works
La Vie
The Old Guitarist
Boy Leading a Horse
Family of Saltimbanques
Woman with a Guitar
Standing Female Nude
Three Musicians
Woman in White
Mother and Child
The Lovers
Minotauromachy
Guernica
Babboon and Young
Demoiselles d’Avignon
4. Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Life
Born in Groot-Zundert in the Dutch province of North Brabant on March 31,
1853.
Eldest son of a protestant Minister.
Works
Sorrowing Old Man
Head of a Woman with White Cap
The Sower
Head of a Peasant
Loom with Weaver
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow
The Potato Eaters
Backyards in Antwerp in the Snow
His Head in His Hands
Avenue of Poplars in Autumn
Scabiosa and Ranunculus
A Pair of Old Shoes
Basket with Potatoes
View of La Crau
Fishing Boats on the Beach of Saintes Maries-de-la-Mer
The Red Vineyard
Starry Night
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5. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Orphaned at an early age
Introduced to music by an older brother who procured for him a
scholarships in St. Michael’s School in Luneburg.
Held five positions, an organist, a court conductor, and a composer of several
chamber music and concertos.
6. Ludwig van Beethevon (1770 – 1827)
Born in Bonn, Germany on December 16, 1770.
He learned to play piano and violin from his father who was a singer
7. Frederich Chopin (1810 – 1849)
Was a Polish pianist and composer.
He studied in Warsaw but later settled in Paris and never returned to Poland.
He composed two concertos, three sonatas, 24 prelude and many waltzes,
nocturnes, and polonaises.
He wrote a cello sonata, a piano trio, and songs.
8. George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Handel’s father did not want him to be a musician, but upon the advice of a
nobleman he finally consented to let the boy study clavier and organ.
He became a court composer in Rome, Florence, and Naples.
He produces his masterpieces “Saul and Israel in Egypt” and “Messiah”,
which were instrumental in maintaining his popularity.
He composed sonatas, organ concertos, harpsichord suites, and anthems.
Famous compositions are “Water Music” and “Music for the Royal
Fireworks”
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756 to violinist and composer Leopold Mozart
and Anna Maria Pertl.
In 1770, he wrote the entire score of “Miserere “ by Gregorion Allegri in
Rome.
He earned the highest praise for his talents as performer, improviser, and
composer.
A freelance musician and teacher, composing such masterpiece as “the
Marriage of Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”
He composed 49 symphonies, over 40 concertos, 25 violin and clarinet
pieces, 7 string quintets, and 26 string quartets.
Other finest works in opera include the “The Magic Flute” and “Jupiter
Symphony”, also wrote, Requiem, an unfinished work.
10.Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899)
Was a violinist, conductor, and composer.
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Eldest son of Johann Strauss I, a famous composer and conductor and known
as the “Father of Waltz”
At the age of 6, he composed his first waltz and at age 19, he organized his
own orchestra which performed some of his compositions.
In 1870, He resigned as court conductor to devote himself to the composition
of the Operettas
He wrote more than 100 polkas, 150 waltzes, 70 quadrilles, marches, and
gallops.
- Lagoon Waltz
- Gypsy Baron his famous waltez
- A Night in Venice
- Roses from the South
- Voices of spring
11.Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)
A Russian composer
Studied in St. Petersburg and later became a professor at the Moscow
conservatoire in 1866.
Greatest compositions are 6 symphonies, 3 piano concertos, a violin concerto
and string quartets.
12.Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Music human and intrinsically Italian.
He developed the motives and action of the characters through the harmonic
and tonal relationships of the music, translating human emotion into action.
He wrote of his plays “The Troubadour”, “The Lost One, and “Regaletto”.
He also behind the opera Aida , composed “Otello and “Requiem Mass”.
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