Art, Artists, Architecture and Music during the Renaissance

Art

• Paintings showed nature and peoples feelings
• Artists studied perspective, and used types of form, colour, and shape
• Paintings became more realistic and less religious

Artists – Leonardo Da Vinci:

• Born in 1452 in the village of Vinci
• Most famous works are The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
• Died in 1519

Michelangelo Buonarroti:

• Born in Florence in 1475
• Most famous piece is the giant Statue of David
• Was a sculptor, architect and painter

Donatello

• Born in 1386 in Firenze
• His earliest work was the marble statue of David and was known as a patriotic symbol

Architecture

• Features of Renaissance buildings include: triangular pediments, square lintels, arches, and domes
• They used materials such as brick; and the colour red became common
• Elizabethan style included: characteristics of formal structures, transitions from Medieval to Renaissance
• Jacobean style included: blended Medieval and Renaissance styles, characteristics of formal structures
• Great Renaissance architects include: Andrew Pallidio, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Fillippo Brunelleschi, and Giacomo da Vignola
• Renaissance architecture was inspired by architecture of classical Greece and Rome

Music

• was very important to the Elizabethans
• there was Elizabethan church music, court music, town music, and theatre music
• many people employed musicians as entertainers
• music became part of plays during this age
• the ability to play a musical instrument was an essential skill at the court of Queen Elizabeth
• She herself could play the lute and the virginal which was a tiny piano
• Queen Elizabeth employed at least 70 musicians and singers.
• Music was included in many of Shakespeare’s plays