Arts of the

RENAISSANCE AND
BAROQUE
Periods
RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
• It was characterized by accurate anatomy, scientific perspective,
and deeper landscape.
• Renaissance painters depicted real-life figures and their
sculptures were naturalistic portraits and human beings.
• Architecture during this period was characterized by its
symmetry and balance.
• A period of artistic experimentation. It brought man into a full
view of just like the human figure in Greek Art.
 RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
• Marks the transition of Europe from the medieval period to the
early modern age. In many parts of Europe, Early Renaissance art
was created in parallel with Late Medieval art. By 1500, the
Renaissance style prevailed.
• The greatest cathedral building of the age was the rebuilding of
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
 FAMOUS
RENAISSANCE
ARTWORKS AND
ARTISTS
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti
Simoni (1475-1564)
• Italian sculpture, painter, and poet
• Considered as the greatest living artist
in his lifetime, and ever since then he
was considered as the greatest artist of
al time.
• His works in painting, sculpture, and
architecture rank among the famous in
existence.
“PIETA”

• In pieta, Michelangelo approached

the subject which until then had
been given form mostly north of the
Alps, where the portrayal od pain
had always been connected with the
idea of redemption as represented by
the seated Madonna holding Christ’s
body in her arms.
Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci (1452-1519)
• He was a painter, architect, scientist, and
mathematician.
• He is known as the ultimate “Renaissance
man”.
• He is widely considered to be one of the
great painters of all time and perhaps the
most diversely talented person to have ever
lived.
“MONA LISA”

• Mona Lisa stems from a description

by Renaissance art historian Giorgio
Vasari, who wrote “Leonardo
undertook to the paint for Francesco
del Giocondo the portrait of Mona
Lisa, his wife”. Mona, in Italian, is a
polite form of address originating as
Madonna – similar to Ma’am or
“Madamme” or My Lady in English.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Rafael)
(1483-1520)
• An Italian painter and architect of the High
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 Christians doctrines.
• His main contributions to artwork were his
unique draftsmanship and compositional
skills.
“The TRANSFIGURATION “
• Last of Rafael on which he worked on
up to his death.
• The painting exemplifies his
development as an artist and the
culmination of his career.
• The subject is combined with additional
episode from the Gospel in the lower
part of the painting.
Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi (Donatello)
(1386-1466)
• 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.
“DAVID”
• .
 BAROQUE ART (1600-1800)
• Barocco – irregularly shaped pearl or stone
• Fairly complex idiom and focuses on painting, sculpture, as well as architecture.
• A period of artistic styles in exaggerated motion, drama, tension, and grandeur.
• Painting –less ambiguous, less arcane, and mysterious
• Sculpture – larger than life size, dynamic movement and with an active use of
space
• architecture – designed to create spectacle and illusion.
FAMOUS BAROQUE
ARTWORKS AND
ARTIST
Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da
Caravaggio (1571-1610)
• .
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640)
Diego Velasquez (1599 – 1660)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijin
(1606 – 1669)
ART FORMS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
SOME BAROQUE CHURCHES
Intramuros, Manila
• Large Baroque churches often
have proportionally very wide
façade which seems to stretch
between the towers.
 SOME BAROQUE CHURCHES
San Agustin Church, Paoy,
San Agustin Church, Manila Ilocos Norte
 SOME BAROQUE CHURCHES
Sto. Tomas de Villanueva
Church, Miag-ao, Iloilo Baclayon Church, Bohol
SOME BAROQUE CHURCHES
The “Sta. Maria Church”
 Individual Activity: Collage Making
Materials: Bond papers, paste and permanent marker
Procedure:
1. Research on the different Philippine churches with baroque designs.
2. Collect pictures, paste them, and label each.
3. Make an album of the pictures you collected.
 Reflection Questions
• 1. What are the elements of art shown in the pictures you pasted?
• What are the characteristics of the churches that you choose to considered
and classify as Baroque?
• Name some of the Philippine artwork/s have similar characteristics with
the Renaissance and/or Baroque period.