colour schemes to unify his pictures.And it was in this sphere that Giorgione achieved the most revolutionary results and influenced his generation and generations to follow.In painting he stressed the contemporaries,notably Titian. expression of emotional states,which,to him were,the heart of His paintings are few,but his influence was great. painting: Major Works: "A good painter has two chief objects-to paint man and the Tempesta,it may be a scene from some classical writer or an intention of his soul.The former is easy,the latter hard,for it must imitator of the classics.The landscape is beautiful and the atmosphere be'expressed by gestures and the movement of the limbs...A is calm and pastoral. painting will only be wonderful for the beholder by making that which is not so raised and detached from the wall." Sleeping Venus,a picture of ideal female beauty. (Anthony Blunt:Artist Theory in Italy,1450-1600)Major b.High Renaissance Artists Works: Last Supper,many European art masters have painted on the 1.Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) same subject.But none of their versions has been as impressive as Da Leonardo da Vinci was a painter,a sculptor,an architect,a Vinci's.And none has the enduring value in the art world as his. musician,an engineer,and a scientist.He was a man of many The fresco that Da Vinci did was highly dramatic in presentation talents,a Renaissance man in the true sense of the word. and highly rhythmical in composition.Its effective use of contrast Leonardo was born at a small town near Florence,where he was between light and darkness not only contributes much to the apprenticed to a painter.But he soon surpassed his masters in uniting characterization but helps to give prominence to the theme of good versus evil. precision of line with rhythm of movement,and in finding new ways to show light and shade. Mona Lisa,if Last Supper is the most famous of religious Although Leonardo is generally known as a painter,his actual pictures,then Mona Lisa probably is the world's most famous portrait. output was very small.In fact today only about twelve paintings are looked upon as having been done by him.This is because of his Mona Lisa had as its model wife of a banker.The quietly folded diverse interest,his far-ranging curiosity in nature and his endless hands,the gaze that is directed at the observer,the ambiguity of the scientific experiments and designings.To understand the man one "smile"together help to create a curious effect and a secret effect. has therefore,to read the 5 000 notebooks in which he put down his ii.Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) observations in life and his sketch drawings. Nevertheless,Leonardo had profound understandings of art, Michelangelo was Italian sculptor,painter,architect and poet. which exerted great influence among the painters of his own He was a towering figure of the Renaissance.His drawings were 138 influenced by Giotto and his sculpture showed the influence of 139