Renaissance HUMANISM

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HUMANISM!!

Leonardo:  

• He had a keen eye and quick mind that led him to make important scientific discoveries, yet he never published his ideas.
• He was a gentle vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons.
• He was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance, yet he left only a handful of completed paintings.
• Lacked a last name: he was from Vinci, Italy

http://www.answers.com/topic/leonardo-da-vinci

   watch this picture of Leonardo:    

Here is a sample of Leonardo's handwriting as it appears in his drawings:                                    
In an era when left-handedness was considered the devil's work and lefties were often forced to use their right hand, Leonardo was an unrepentant southpaw. It has been suggested that this "difference" was an element of his genius, since his detachment allowed him to see beyond the ordinary. He even wrote backwards, and his writings are easily deciphered only with a mirror.

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html

Leonardo's inventions:

Guessing Game

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/four/four.html

http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/invenzioni.html

Leonardo recognized that levers and gears, when applied properly, could accomplish astonishing tasks.

Gears were at the heart of nearly all his inventions, from the crane to

the helicopter to the automatic turnspit.

Michelangelo Buonorotti:

http://www.answers.com/Michelangelo

http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Volta_Vele.html Hover your mouse over the picture below. You will see a label to match the key below the picture....or go to the site above.

Webs Pendentives Sibyls and Prophets Central stories...all from the OLD testament (Genesis to Flood)

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo was summoned back to the great city of Rome in 1503 by the newly appointed Pope Julius II and was commissioned to build the Pope's tomb. However, under the patronage of Julius II, Michelangelo had to constantly stop work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks; due to such interruptions, Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years without ever finishing it. One such interruption was the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which took four years to complete (1508 – 1512). Michelangelo was originally employed to paint the 12 Apostles, but protested for a different scheme, and eventually completed the work with over 300 Biblical figures in a composition which has attracted many different interpretations. His figures showed the creation, the creation of Man, the creation of Woman, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the drunkenness of Noah and the Great Flood. Around the windows he painted the ancestors of Christ. On the pendentives supporting the ceiling he alternated seven Prophets of Israel with five sibyls, female prophets of the Classical world, with Jonah over the altar. On the highest section Michelangelo painted nine episodes from the Book of Genesis.

   Jonah and "Whale"

Sistine Chapel Sybils (Greek fortune-tellers):

Norman Rockwell's tribute to Isaiah Sybil:

DAVID

  The Virgin Mary was made huge for emphasis. PIÉTA was about Her (Piéta means "pity"). 

Look how small Jesus looks in her arms.  If She stood up she'd be nine feet tall.

Michelangelo was architect for St. Peter's, Rome  

Raphael Santi:

Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO (b. April 6, 1483, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [Italy]--d. April 6, 1520, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome.

http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/angels.htm

Sistine Madonna                                School of Athens

http://www.answers.com/topic/raphael

large view Powerful inch between fingers	large view Sistine Chapel Creation of Adam	large view Larynx and Leg Study-Leonardo
large view The Flying Ship by Leonardo	Leonardo's Scuba Gear	Leonardo's Ram Boat
Leonardo's Odometer (ask your parents what this is)	large view Michelangleo's Prophet Zechariah	large view Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil
large view Motif of Michelangelo's Creation (Michael DeRosa)	large view Last Supper Motif (Dom Sindoni)	large view Raphael Motifs (Cassidy O'Malley and Ben Vasquez)
Raphael's Angels by Stephanie D'Amico and Danny Hastings	large view Mona Lisa Eeyores (Meredith DiDuro and Holly Greco)	large view Last Judgement Michelangelo

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