"Art of Renaissance and Baroque Period": Grade 9 - Arts Second Quarter

“ART OF
RENAISSANCE
AND BAROQUE
PERIOD”
GRADE 9 – ARTS
SECOND QUARTER
ARTWORKS AND
ARTISTS FROM THE
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
ART OF RENAISSANCE PERIOD
(1400-1600)
 Italian Renaissance began in the late 14th century.
 The word “renaissance” comes from the word, “renaitre”,
which means, “rebirth”.
 This era is a period of many changes. It is also the time of
“Rebirth” of the composers of modern era.
 The greatest cathedral building of the age was the
rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
ART OF RENAISSANCE PERIOD
(1400-1600)
 Many works of Renaissance art period depicted
religious images, including subjects such as the
Virgin Mary, or Madonna, and were encountered
by contemporary audiences of the period in the
context of religious rituals.
 Architecture is a type of artwork from the
Renaissance period which was characterized by its
symmetry and balance.
“Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(1475-1564) ”
 Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter,

architect, and poet. He was considered the
greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever
since then he was considered as one of the
greatest artists of all time.
 Here are some of his famous artworks.

“Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(1475-1564) ”
Famous Artworks:
“Bacchus”, “Moses”, “David”, “Dying Slave”, “Dawn
and Dusk”.
He also created two of the most influential works in
fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from
Genesis on the ceiling and the Last Judgment on the
altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
Fresco is a technique wherein the pigments are mixed

with water and directly painted onto the wall.
“PIETA”
One of Michelangelo’s best-known
works is The Pieta and David, which
were sculpted before he turned
thirty.
“Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci
(1452- 1519) ”
 He was a painter, architect, scientist, and mathematician. He
was popularized in present times through the novel and
movie, “Da Vinci Code.”
 He is known as the ultimate “Renaissance man” because of
his intellect, interest, talent and his expression of humanist
and classical values.
 He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of
all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person to
have ever lived.
“Monalisa”
The most famous and most imitated
portrait.
“Last Supper”
 The most reproduced religious painting of all time.
 This shows Jesus having his last dinner with his 12 disciples.
“Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) (1483-1520)”
 Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of

the High Renaissance period.
 Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da

Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great
masters of that period. His main contributions
to art were his unique draftsmanship and
compositional skills.
 His famous works were: The Sistine Madonna,

The School of Athens, and The Transfiguration.
“The Transfiguration”
The Transfiguration was Raphael’s
last painting on which he worked
on up to his death.
Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)
(1386- 1466)
 Donatello was one of the Italian great artists

of the period. He was an early Renaissance
Italian sculptor from Florence.
 His works included the following statues and

relief: “David”, “Statue of St. George”,
“Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata”,
“Prophet Habacuc”, and “The Feast of
Herod”.
“David”
It was the first known free-
standing nude statue produced since
ancient times.
ARTWORKS AND
ARTISTS FROM
THE
BAROQUE PERIOD
Art of Baroque Period
(1600-1800)
 The term Baroque was derived from the Portuguese word
“barocco” which means “irregularly shaped pearl or stone.
 Baroque developed in Europe around the 1600s.
 Baroque Art aims to give an effect that wants to carry the
viewer’s away with the force of its impact.
 In the 16th century, the Baroque style was carried by the
Spanish and Portuguese to the Philippines. It influenced the
Intramuros (the pre- colonial walled city of Manila.)
Michelangelo Merisi or
Amerighi da Caravaggio (1571- 1610)
 He was better known as Caravaggio. He was

an Italian artist who wanted to deviate from
the classical masters of the Renaissance.
 Caravaggio’s models at this period were either
himself or young persons who have an air of
being promising but wicked.
 Among his famous paintings were: “Supper at
Emmaus”, “Conversion of St. Paul”, and
“Entombment of Christ.”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680)
 Bernini was an Italian artist and the first Baroque artist. He
practiced architecture, and sculpture, painting, stage
design, and was also a playwright.
 He was the greatest Baroque sculptor and architect as seen
in his design of the Piazza San Pietro in front of the
Basilica. It is one of his most innovative and successful
architectural designs.
 The famous “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” was his greatest
achievement and the “Colonade of the Piazza of St.
Peter’s Rome.”
“Ecstasy of St. Teresa”
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa depicts a scene
that Teresa wrote about in her own
autobiography. In it, she described an
angel who pierced her heart multiple times
with fire-tipped spear.
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577- 1640)
 Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was
well known for his paintings of mythical and
figurative subjects, landscapes, portraits, and
Counter- Reformation altarpieces.
 His commissioned works were mostly religious
subjects, history paintings of magical creatures,
and hunt scenes.
 His famous works were: “Samson and Delilah”,
“Landscape with a Tower”, and “The Three
Graces.”
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
(1606-1669)
 Rembrandt was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter
and etcher. He is generally considered as one of
the greatest painters and printmakers in European
art.
 No artist has painted himself as often as did
Rembrandt.
 His well- known work was his “Self portrait in
Old Age”. Rembrandt had produced over 600
paintings, nearly 400 etchings, and 2000 drawings.
Diego Velasquez (1599- 1660)
 Velasquez of Spain developed out of the Baroque. He was

one of the finest masters of composition and one of the
most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age. He
worked out solutions to pictorial problems of design that
transcend the style of any period.
 His famous works were: “The Surrender of Breda”, “Las
Meninas (The maids of honour)”, “Los Barachos (The
Drinker)”, and “Maria Theresa.”
“Las Meninas”
 Las Meninas is an oil painting by
the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. It
was painted in 1656.
 The word “Menina” means “lady-in-
waiting” or “Maid of Honour”
(a girl who serves in a royal court).

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“ART OF

 Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter,

 Here are some of his famous artworks.

Fresco is a technique wherein the pigments are mixed

 Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of

 Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da

 His famous works were: The Sistine Madonna,

 Donatello was one of the Italian great artists

 His works included the following statues and

 He was better known as Caravaggio. He was

 Velasquez of Spain developed out of the Baroque. He was

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