Painters

 

Giovanni Pisano

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Leonardo Da Vinci

Fra Angelica

Jan Van Eyck

Masaccio Di Giovanni

Lorenzetti brothers
 Sandro Botticelli
 Piero Della Francesca

 

 

Giovanni Pisano

Madonna at St. Stephen's Cathedral

Great sculptor and architect.
Thought to have had a firsthand acquaintance with the Gothic art of France because of his dramatic use of line and his taste for elaborate decoration.
Built a pulpit in the years1298-1301, for Sant' Andrea, Pistoia.

Carved a few freestanding statues of the Madonna.

In 1312 he made the tomb of Margaret who was the wife of Emperor Henry VII.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti        The Sistine Chapel's ceiling with a scene from the Old Testament painted by Michelangelo.

Great painter and sculptor.

He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

He was a better know sculptor then painter with such works as the sculptures of David and La Pieta.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci              Leonardo's Painting of Mona Lisa

Great painter and inventor.

He painted The Last Supper and Cecilia Gallarani.

His most amazing piece of art is the Mona Lisa.

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Fra Angelica

Ressurection

Fra Angelica Was a Florentine painter in Vicchio, Tuscany.

His style was known for it’s purity of line and color and it’s spiritual expressiveness.

First Painting was his Madonna of the Linen Guild.

Adapting the artistic innovations of his time he interpreted them in terms of the greatest spirituality.

 Angelica endowed the new forms with his own incomparable sense of coloring and unity.

In 1447 when he returned to Rome he designed in the following year his greatest and most unified scenes from the life of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence.

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Jan Van Eyck

Jan Van Eyck's La Vierge au chancelier Rolin

Discovered the oil technique in painting.

The Eyckian style was based on a strong undercurrent of realism that constituted an important aspect of the development of late medieval art.

Achievements of his include: Frescoes of Tommaso da Modena and panel paintings of Melchoir Broederlam and Robert Campin.

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Masaccio Di giovanni

Painting of Jesus on the Cross     Painting of people in a town

He was a revolutionary painter.
He painted mostly with a brush.

He was also possessed about all the graceful and seductive, but abstract, beauty of the gothic calligraphy.

 

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Lorenzetti Brothers

Two 14th century Italian painters named Pietro and Ambrogio.
Used Byzantine tradition developed by Duccicio di Buoninsegna and Simone Martini.
Foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance.

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Sandro  Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Born 1446 and died in 1510.
Most well known painting is The Birth of Venus.
Painter of the Florentine tradition.

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Piero Della francesca

Painting of Jesus on the Cross Painting of a Chapel

http://keptar.demasz.hu/arthp/tours/arezzo/ (cross)

www.agriturismo.com (chapel)

He added his own perception of nature to his paintings.
He mathematical ratios for his paintings.
He specialized in court paintings.
Some of his famous paintings are Dream of Constantine and Sigismondo Malatesta.

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