Top Renaissance Artists
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Donatello
Cantoria
Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano
Saint John the Evangelist
mostly statues in the round
worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax
4 assistants
sculptor born in Florence but worked in Rome, Padua and Siena
Michelangelo
world's most famous sculpture, David
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
the greatest living artist in his lifetime and one of the greatest artists of all time
sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
Raphael
La Fornarina
The School of Athens
most of his works found at the Vatican
very productive despite death at 37
with da Vinci and Michelangelo, forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period
painter and architect
Leonardo da Vinci
Famous works
Vitruvian Man
Last Supper
Mona Lisa
archetype of the Renaissance Man
unquenchable curiosity
most diversely talented person ever to have lived
polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer