1400-1600 CE Renaissance • Comes from the French for rebirth or revival • Started in Italy in the 1400s • Transitional time period following the Middle Ages when Europe saw a revival of classical learnings and art • A cultural high point with Italy at its center Who's who of the time period • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello) • Botticelli • Jan Van Eyck • El Greco • William Shakespeare • Galileo Galilei Filippo Brunelleschi, Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy Duomo, Filippo Brunelleschi Leonardo da Vinci Self Portrait 1512 - 1515 Leonardo’s Mirror Writing “backwards” “Virtruvian Man” Leonardo The Accademia Venice, Italy “Helicopter” Leonardo “Cross Bow” Leonardo “Embryo” Leonardo “Human Anatomy” Leonardo “Madonna of the Rocks” Leonardo (National Gallery, London) “Mona Lisa” Leonardo The Louvre Paris, France “The Last Supper” Leonardo da Vinci Santa Maria delle Grazie- Milan, Italy Michelangelo “Michelangelo” by Daniele da Volterra “Pieta” Michelangelo St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City “David” Michelangelo The Accademia, Florence, Italy The Sistine Chapel Vatican City “Creation of Adam” Center Panel of ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, The Genesis Story The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, “Creation of Adam” Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel back wall “The Last Judgment” Michelangelo St. Peter’s Basilica Vatican City The Basilica's Dome Aerial view of St. Peter’s piazzo Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City (Rome) 5.7 acres, holds 60,000 people Designed by Michelangelo Swiss Guards protest the Vatican Raphael Self Portrait “The School of Athens” Raphael Apostolic Palace, Vatican City Alexander the Great Socrates Pythagoras Plato Raphael Euclid Aristotle Ptolemy “Cherubs” Raphael Dresden, Germany “The Sistine Madonna” Raphael Dresden, Germany Donatello Self Bust “David” Donatello Palazzo del Popolo, Florence, Italy Botticelli Self Portrait “The Birth of Venus” Botticelli Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy “Praying Hands” Durer Jan Van Eyck Self Portrait “Man in Turban” 1433 “The Arnolfini Portrait” Van Eyck, National Gallery, London “The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of Mystic Lamb” Van Eyck St. Baron, Ghent, Belgium El Greco Self Portrait “Portrait of an Old Man” 1595 “View of Toledo” El Greco Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City THE END....kind of because now it is your turn to pick a person of the Renaissance of your own to research:)