Renaissance433
Begun in 1505,
the building
took 150 years
to complete.Dome rises more than
400 ft (120 m) from the
floor of the church.Saint peter’S
Situated in Vatican City, rome,
italy, Saint peter’s Church has
a rich history. ten different
architects worked on its
construction. Michelangelo
designed the dome. the italian
architect Bernini (1598-1680) designed the inside
of the church and the majestic piazza outside the church.
Saint peter’s houses many fabulous works of art, and
marble and detailed mosaics decorate the walls.MediCiS
the Medicis were a great
banking family who ruled
Florence for more than
300 years. they became
very powerful. Many of
them, particularly Lorenzo
“the Magnificent” (1449-92),
encouraged artists such
as Michelangelo, and helped
them financially.Renaissance
1420-36 architect Filippo
Brunelleschi develops the
system of perspective.
1430-35 donatello’s
sculpture of david is the first
large nude statue since the
roman empire.
1480-85 Sandro Botticelli
paints The Birth of Venus.
1497 Leonardo da Vinci
paints The Last Supper.
1501 petrucci publishes
first printed music
in Venice.
1501-4 Michelangelo
sculpts David.
1502 Leonardo paints the
Mona Lisa.
1505 architect donato
Bramante begins the new
Saint peter’s in rome.
Completed in 1655.
1508 artist raphael begins
to decorate the pope’s
apartments in the Vatican.
1508-12 Michelangelo
decorates the Sistine chapel.
1509 erasmus writes In
Praise of Folly, criticizing
the Church.
c.1510 renaissance art in
Venice reaches its peak with
artists such as titian,
Veronese, and tintoretto.
1513 death of pope
Julius ii.
1532 niccolo Machiavelli’s
book The Prince is published,
suggesting how a ruler
should govern a state.
1543 astronomer
Copernicus claims that
earth and the other planets
move around the sun.
1552 architect palladio
begins to build the Villa
rotunda in Venice.
1565 death of
Michelangelo.
1593 Galileo develops
the thermometer.
1608 Galileo develops
the telescope.SCuLpture
renaissance sculptors made great
use of marble, copying the style
of ancient roman statues. a new
understanding of anatomy
inspired sculptors to carve nude
figures, with accurate depictions
of muscles and joints. Some
sculptors even dissected
corpses to discover how the
human body works.arChiteCture
renaissance architecture was
modeled on classical roman building
styles. architects featured high domed
roofs, vaulted ceilings, decorative
columns, and rounded arches in their
buildings. One of the most influential
architects was andrea palladio
(1508-80). the classical designs used by
palladio for his many villas and palaces
were widely copied by later architects.MiCheLanGeLO
Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a very skilled
italian artist and sculptor. his marble
statue of david (left) is one of the
finest examples of renaissance
sculpture. people admired the
statue’s youthful strength
and beauty, which
demonstrated the
new realistic
style of art.BOttiCeLLi
the paintings of Sandro Botticelli
(1444-1510) show many of the
features typical of renaissance art:
clear lines, even composition, and
an emphasis on human activity.
renaissance artists painted realistic,
mythological, and Biblical subjects.
Most tried to make their paintings
as realistic as possible by using
perspective to give scenes an
appearance of depth. above is the
Botticelli painting Venus and Mars.Find out more
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