• Raphael was an Italian

painter and architect of the

Renaissance Period.
• His work was admired for
its clarity of form and ease
of composition and for its
visual achievement of
interpreting the Divine
and incorporating
Christian doctrines.
• Together with
Michelangelo and
Leonardo da Vinci, he
formed the traditional
trinity of great masters of
that period.
• His main contributions
to are were his unique
draftsmanship and
compositional skills.
His Famous works
were:
• The Sistine
Madonna
• The School of
Athens and
• The Transfiguration
The altarpiece was
commissioned in
1512 by Pope Julius
II for the church of
San Sisto, Piacenza.
The Transfiguration
was Raphael’s last
painting which he
worked on up to his
death.
It was commissioned by
Cardinal Giulio de
Medici, the late Pope
Clement VII, the
painting was conceived
as an altarpiece for the
Narbonne Cathedral in
France
 The painting
exemplifies
Raphael’s
development as an
artist and the
culmination of his
career.
• Donatello was one of the
Italian great artists of the
period.
• He was an early
Renaissance Italian
sculptor from Florence.
• He is known for his work
in Bas-relief a form of
shallow relief sculpture.
• Bas-relief- is a type of
sculpture that has less
depth to the faces and
figures than they
actually have, when
measured
proportionately (to
scale).
His works included the
following statues and relief:
David
Statue of St. George
Equestrian Monument of
Gattamelata
Prophet Habacuc and
The Feast of Herod
It was the first such
work like this in
over a thousand
years, it is one of the
most important
works in the history
of western art.
The Equestrian Statue of
Gattamelata is a sculpture by
Italian early Renaissance artist
Donatello, dating from 1453,
located in the Piazza del Santo in
Padua, Italy, today. It portrays
the Renaissance condottiero
Erasmo da Narni, known as
"Gattamelata", who served mostly
under the Republic of Venice,
which ruled Padua at the time.
The sculpture depicts
the beheading of John
the Baptist after Salome
asks Herod Antipas for
his head on a platter.
The scene depicts an
executioner presenting
the severed head, and
Herod reacting in
shock.
 
Renaissance
art is the art
of calm and beauty