Visual+Art

By Luke and Jayden ==The Renaissance - “the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world”==

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 * //1452 - Leonardo was born in the city of Vinci//
 * 1473 - Leonardo appreciated Verrocchio
 * 1482 - Leonardo moved to Milan
 * 1495 - Leonardo begins Last Supper
 * 1499 - Leonardo returns to Florence, French capture Milan
 * 1501 - Michealangelo creates statue of David
 * 1503 - Leonardo begins painting Mona Lisa
 * 1506 - Leonardo returns to Milan
 * 1508 - Michealangelo begins painting Sistine chapel
 * 1512 - Leonardo moves to Rome, Sistine chapel is finished
 * 1513 - Pope Julius II died and Raphael had less time to paint
 * 1516 - Leonardo moves to France
 * 1519 - Leonardo dies

Characteristics of Renaissance paintings include realistic linear perspective, focusing on the connection between light and dark, and a recognition of nature and the human body. Four famous artists in the Renaissance who used these characteristics and understood them were Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, and Tiziano Vecellio.

Leonardo was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and a writer. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and one of the most talented people to have ever lived. His vision of the world is more logical than mysterious, and that the methods he used were unusual for his time. One of his most famous paintings was the Mona Lisa.

Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.He was considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian, Leonardo da Vinci. Michelangelo also created one of the most influential paintings during the Renaissance, the painting was called //The Last Judgment.//

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance, celebrated for his paintings and drawings. By his early twenties, he was already an established artist. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. His best known work is //The School of Athens// in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura.

Reconized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, he could paint portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

=__Bibliography__=
 * ===Books=== || ===Websites=== ||
 * ===Leonardo Da Vinci For Kids - Janis Herbert - Page 1===

The Renaissance - James A. Corrick - Pages 57 - 68
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