Donatello

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a sculpture unlike any sculpture before him. The episode, The Power of Art, illustrates examples of his sculptures and his work as an architect. Bernini was able to carve so much depth and so much emotion out of a single piece of marble. The world had never seen such movement and play out from a sculptures and Bernini had revolutionized a new way in the world of sculpting. The accounts of Bernini’s life are based from a biography written by Filippo Baldinucci, who…

Renaissance best artist The renaissance was started after the black death due to the population, this was the time of beautiful art and inventions. The main artist was Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. But Leonardo is the best artist of the renaissance not only from his back story but because of his variety of skills. Leonardo had many skills but were only focusing on two, Master painter, and Inventor. Leonardo wasn’t into being a painter he was born of a peasant. Leonardo…

In the book Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King refers to Filipo Brunelleschi as a renaissance genius. It’s actually a part of the full title to the book. Many things led King to this conclusion. No precedence was set for what Brunelleschi did. His designs and methods were so incredibly innovative that he reinvented how architecture was done during the Renaissance. Before Brunelleschi there was a profound lack of technical knowledge amongst the architecture community. Much of the building knowledge…

There are four statues of David. Each by a different person and each have a different history. The four statues artists were Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini, and Verrocchio. All these statues are great; they have their similarities and their differences. Michelangelo’s David is a seventeen foot tall statue. It is made entirely of white marble. The sculpture is of a man that is naked. He is standing and looking left. He has his left arm up by his head and he is holding something. What he is…

Love[17] or Francesco Maria Della Revere? 10: Aeschines o Xenophon? 11: Parménides? (Leonardo da Vinci) 12: Sócrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangeló) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristóteles (Giuliano da Sangallo) 16: Diogenes of Sinope 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante?) 19: Strabo or Zoroaster? (Baldassare Castiglione) 20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)…

This caused art to adopt Roman and Greek inspired styles of art. The human figure became more idealized, seen in Donatello and Michelangelo’s Davids. While there is a continuing religious focus in art, there is also a renewed interest in Greco/Roman mythology, figures like Greek and Roman gods becoming popular subjects for paintings, seen in paintings like Botticelli’s…

Over the past month i have read two books, which both are in the same series: The first book is “Middle School, The WORST Years of my Life”, The second book is “Middle School, SAVE RAFE!”. Both books have a amusing plot. Nevertheless, they both have major differences and similarities with the plot, conflict, setting, and characters. The plot in both books is extremely different but has a couple similarities throughout. In the first book, “Middle school, the worst years of my life” The main…

Mitchell World History Period 4 December 7, 2014 Florence In the Renaissance Source #1 History Alive pg. 324 leading cultural center birthplace of poet Dante Alighieri Michelangelo grew up there Leonardo da Vinci grew up there another Florentine, Donatello, made his mark special because of location Italy was divided into city-states Florence was one of these right on the Arno River, which made a center of trade and commerce the hub of woolen-cloth trading for Europe 100,000 residents Florence…

Both the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance art forms centered on realism and religion, but differed in that Italian art emphasized the human form and aristocracy, while Northern Art focused on fine details and color, and the everyday life of peasants. Northern art was predominantly Gothic, but over time began to adopt some of the Italian characteristics. To illustrate, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ created by Albrecht Durer, shows the minute details used by Northern artists as…

change from religious dedication became tested by logic, philosophy, and an artistic movement called humanism. One popular artist during the Renaissance was Donatello. He was able to portray humans into the Christian context through sculpture. An example of his work is David, which was the first full-size, nude statue since Roman times. Donatello was influenced by the renewal of Neoplatonist philosophy. The philosophy was said to believe in inspiration as a means of arising from worldly…