Chapter 7

The Lives And Works Of Masters

In Visual Arts

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Is an Italian master of the arts ofPaintingSculptureArchitecture

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Also An accomplished engineerA pioneer investigator in the natural sciences.Rare universal geniusThe epitome of the “ideal” Renaissance

humanistHe started the style of High Renaissance art

and had an immediate and profound influence on the 16th century art, and the following generations.

Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci (father)

Caterina --- (mother)

Paintings

Life and works in painting

Born in 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence(Italy)

He spent his youth in Tuscany and in 1469, They went to Florence(Italy) with his father He entered the studio of sculpture to Andrea Del

Verrocchio as an apprentice, where he received a diversified training, until 1476. he worked with Verrocchio on the painting of the “Baptism of Christ”.

He painted in Florence until 1481.

“Baptism of Christ”

He is generally believed to have contributed to the landscape background of the picture of his master, and the head of one of the angels is considered to be one of the earliest from his hand. He replaced the bulbous-nosed facial type of his master, clearly modeled in sharp contrasts of light and dark, with one whose aquiline elegance was to become known as Leonardesque

In 1482, he went to Milan, where he remained in the service of the court of Ludovico Sforza until 1499. Where he do painting, portraits, inventing machines of war, staging theatrical pageants, and designing town plans and architecture. He worked as artist and technical adviser on architecture and engineering, already displaying his amazing versatility.

During his stay in Milan he worked on a Prancing Equestrian Statue

- a bronze horse intended as a monument to Francesco Sforza – Ludovico’s father.

Last Supper

- It was also in Milan when he painted it which was ordered by Ludovico il Moro for the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. He used a medium containing oil and varnished for this painting.

Last Supper (1495-1497)

In 1499, Leonardo executed a cartoon in Mantua, now in the National Gallery in London, for painting of the Virgin and Child and St. Anne.

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist (c. 1499–1500)

Mona Lisa (Louvre in Paris)

the wife of Francesco del Goicondo, which Leonardo began in 1503 at Louvre.

It is precisely, this provocative atmospheric quality that add so greatly to the ineffable mystery of this famous painting “Mona Lisa”.

The enigma is heightened further by the famous smile, which has appeared before in Gandharan art in India, in Gothic art at Reims Cathedral, and even earlier in archaic Greek art-wherever in art it would seem, the world of the real and the world of the ideal made glancing contract. It is precisely this blend of the real and ideal that adds to the mystery of Leonardo’s mind and art.

Mona Lisa (1503-1506)

Subject: LISA DEL GIOCONDO

The unfinished Adoration of the Magi in the Uffizi in Florence

The Virgin of the Rocks Which there are two versions:

-one is on the Louvre in Italy- and one on the National Gallery in London(and a St. John in the Louvre) – his last

painting.The Battle of the Anghiari

Among his other important works

Adoration of the Magi

Virgin of the Rocks

Analysis and evaluation of Leonardo and some of his paintings.

Leonardo’s art of expression needs utmost admiration. This expression was nurtured by his power of his invention and also by every technical means:

• Drawing • Color• Use of light and shadowTo Leonardo, expression became a key concept of art;

it also included the basic demands of truth, beauty, and accuracy in everything depicted.

Michelangelo Buonorroti (1475-1564)- Born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese,

An Italian• Painter• Sculptor• Architect• Poet

He died at the age of 84

Francesca del Sera (mother)

Lodovico di Buonorroti (father)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

His full name

Paintings

Sculptures

Architecture

Early Life

When he was yet a child, his mother was die, leaving his father with five young sons. His father Lodovico remarried in 1485, about this time Michelangelo returned to Florence to live in the Sta. Crose Quarter with his father, stepmother, four, brothers, and an uncle.

As a boy, Michelangelo cared little for the traditional Latin and humanistic studies; and his inclination to draw led his father, despite his scorn or (disrespect) for art, to enroll him on April 1, 1488 in the workshop of Dominico Chilandio, the most popular painter in Florence (Italy). A year later, however, Michelangelo left in that master to study in the Medici Gardens near San Marco.

Early WorksIn Florence, Michelangelo carved in marble a San Giovannino

and a Sleeping Cupid (and that was both lost). The Cupid imitated classic sculpture so skillfully that it was sold to a Roman art dealer who, in turn, the counterfeit as an authentic antique to the Cardinal Raffaelloo Riario was sold.

Bacchus and Pieta- two of the contrasting main themes which served

Michelangelo all his life: pagan exaltation of the nude male figure, and love-pity for the Christ.

Michelangelo is the name that reveals artistic ideas and love of beauty. He can capture love and life with beautiful art works presented effectively either in sculptures, paintings and even in poetry he must have possessed all the creative senses a man could ever have.

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Prepared By :

Bryan A. Matriz

Prepared To :

Mr. Ted Revidad