One of the best known and most celebrated of all periods in history, the Renaissance was a time of momentous change in European art and civilization, representing a transition from the medieval world to the modern one. In fact, when historians speak of early modern Europe, they are referring to the period encompassed by the Renaissance This is a compilation of the best artists' work and profile of the Renaissance
[...]... though the lower part of the face, narrow and emaciated, is calm and without muscular stress The Well of Moses was originally 19 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance painted in several colours by Jean Malouel, painter to the duke, and gilded by Hermann of Cologne The figures of the composition dominate the architectural framework but also reinforce the feeling of support... became a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti, a sculptor in bronze who in 1402 had won the competition for the doors of the Florentine baptistery Donatello’s earliest work of which there is certain 31 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance knowledge, a marble statue of David, shows an artistic debt to Ghiberti, who was then the leading Florentine exponent of International... held for the commission to make a pair of bronze doors for the baptistery of the cathedral of Florence He and six other artists were given the task of representing the biblical scene of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in a bronze relief of quatrefoil shape, following the tradition of the first set of doors Isaac, Jacob, and Esau, gilded bronze relief panel from the east doors (Gates of Paradise) of the Baptistery... Florence They included the dramatic bronze group Judith and Holofernes and a bronze statue of St John the Baptist for Siena Cathedral The last years of Donatello’s life were spent designing twin bronze pulpits for San Lorenzo, and thus, again in the service of his old patrons the Medici, he died Covered 35 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance with reliefs showing the passion... harmonious calm makes it the most Classical of Donatello’s works 33 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance Whether the David was commissioned by the Medici or not, Donatello worked for them (1433–43), producing sculptural decoration for the old sacristy in San Lorenzo, the Medici church Works there included 10 large reliefs in coloured stucco and two sets of small bronze doors,... by Sluter All of the surviving sculpture known to be by Sluter was made for Philip Two compositions are still to be found at the site of Champmol The figures on the central pillar that divided the portal of the chapel show the duke and duchess presented by their patron saints John the Baptist and Catherine to the Virgin and Child The Well of Moses in the cloister consists of the remains of a wellhead... showing the Calvary of Christ The other extant work is the duke’s own tomb, which once stood in the chapel at Champmol but which has been reassembled in the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon 17 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance The archives in Dijon provide some information on Sluter’s sculptural commissions In 1389 he succeeded Jean de Marville as chief sculptor to the duke,... figures of unprecedented monumentality whose faces and gestures expressed deeply felt human emotions One of Sluter’s patrons was Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy and ruler of the Low Countries In Northern Europe, Philip and his successors played the same important role as art patrons that the Medici did in Italy 13 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance Around the same... 21 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance Robert Campin (b c 1378, Tournai, France—d April 26, 1444, Tournai) O ne of the earliest and greatest masters of Flemish painting was Robert Campin He has been identified with the Master of Flémalle on stylistic and other grounds Characterized by a naturalistic conception of form and a poetic representation of the objects of daily... San Michele: the St Matthew in 1419 for the bankers’ guild and the St Stephen for the wool guild in 1425 These last two commissions brought Ghiberti into open competition with the newly prominent younger sculptors Donatello and Nanni di Banco, who had made 25 7 The 100 Most Influential Painters 7 & Sculptors of the Renaissance stone statues for Or San Michele after Ghiberti’s first figure there Ghiberti’s . art forms. Within the period of the Renaissance, art historians recognize The 100 Most Influential Painters & Sculptors of the Renaissance 10 7 7 three. from studia humanitatis, the term The 100 Most Influential Painters & Sculptors of the Renaissance 12 7 7 applied to the course of Classical studies that