Most famous Renaissance artists Donatello
Rafael
Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarroti1475-1564
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1508 - 1512
The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling
Michelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512
The Sistine Chapel Details
The Creation
of the Heavens
The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man
The Sistine Chapel Details
The Fall from Grace
The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment
Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519
• Wrote in code
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
ArtistSculptorArchitectScientistEngineerInventor
Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??
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vert
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Perspective!
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
& Geometry
A Da Vinci “Code”:St. John or Mary Magdalene?
� Vitruvian Man
� Leonardo daVinci
� 1492
TheL’uomo
universale
Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology):Pages from
his Notebook
� An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.
Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy):
Pages from his Notebook
Leonardo, the Inventor:
Pages from his Notebook
Results
-books published more quickly and cheaply
-Humanism and other Renaissance ideas spread quickly from Italy into the north
1440
Johannes Gutenburg