Renaissance Artists

Notebook Assignment #26

Donatello Artwork

• There are 8 questions below.  Add two drawings of your own (on anything) so you can show yourself a Renaissance person.  (Thus there are 10 questions in notebook #26.)
• Raphael. 
  • 1. Describe in words the STYLE of painting you see with Rafael. 
  • 2. How does this contrast with painting from the Middle Ages? another link here...
  • Another site to compare Renaissance and Middle Ages art (skip the first, classical part).
• Leonardo da Vinci.
  • 3. What is perspective in artwork?
  • 4. How does Leonardo incorporate it in the paintings on this link?
• Look at the artwork of Donatello through the links in the column to the right.  Describe three of these, 5-7, and then try to 8. characterize his work (and thus sculpture in the Renaissance) in a general way.
  • 5. Name the sculpture, then describe it
  • 6. Name the sculpture, then describe it
  • 7. Name the sculpture, then describe it
  • 8. (Characterize the sculpture of Donatello)
• Add two drawings of your own, one a self-portrait, to show that you are Renaissance person:
  • 9. (self-portrait of yourself)
  • 10. (anything you want)