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Artists of the Renaissance

May 29th, 2008 by Mr. Dorrough and tagged , , , , , ,

Michelangelo

Lived (Years he was alive)

1475 to 1564

Place (Where he was from)

Florance, Italy

Personality and Training

  • Ambitious
  • religious
  • Had a temper
  • Studies Art particularly painting and sculptur

Talents and Achievements

  • Talented painter and Sculptor
  • Expressive
  • His sculptures such as the Pieta, David, and Moses were life like
  • His masterpiece was the celling of the Sistine Chapel

Titan

Lived (Years he was alive)

1488 to 1576

Place (Where he was from)

The Italian Alps

Personality and Training

  • Perswasive
  • Generous
  • Studied fresco painting (painting on walls)

Talents and Achievements

  • Known for his use of color
  • paintings seemed to come alive
  • painted bible stories, myths, and famous people
  • His techniques are copied toda

Durer

Lived (Years he was alive)

1471 - 15 28

Place (Where he was from)

Nuremberg, Germany

Personality and Training

  • Popular and “In”
  • Intellectual
  • Studied Gold smithing
  • Studied Painting, printmaking, math, Latin, Classical Lit., and sculpture
  • Traveled
  • Met Humanist

Talents and Achievements

  • blended German and Italian painting style
  • Made engravings
  • Painted religious figures, self portraits, court portraits

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Florence: City of the Renaissance

May 19th, 2008 by Mr. Dorrough and tagged ,

Florance Epitomizes the Renaissance. It was the home of inventors, architects, painters, and merchants.

This week we will will be examining this city in more detail.

In class today we did the pre-reading questions for chapter 29.

We also did the key terms for chapter 29.

I assigned essential question # 1 for home work.

Pre-Reading Questions

Budget Vocabulary Matrix

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