Donatello.As a 16th century artist he was forced to depend on the JuliusⅡ. Moses,it was a superhumen figure carved for the tomb of Julius favour of great patrons and had to work on projects against his own will and against his own interests.In fact he felt that the patrons II,which would have been Michelangelo's greatest masterpiece if it were the hindrance of his success. had been carried out as planned. Michelangelo created a style of art in which he freed himself from the old tradition of decoration on the one hand and documentary .iii.Raphael (Raffaello Sancio,1483-1520) Raphael was one of the major painters during the Renaissance. realism on the other.Art was to him the means by which he There is in his work the exquisite harmony and balance of the High expressed his vision of man,man's beauty,man's nobility,his own Renaissance. anguish and his own energy,a means by which he made inquiry into the reality. Raphael had neither the immense range of knowledge of Major Works: Leonard,nor the power of Michelangelo.While these two geniuses were difficult to get on with Raphael was of a sweetness of temper. David,a sculpture,it was commissioned when the artist was only twenty-six years old.It was the result of his studies in Rome of Raphael was best known for his Madonna(Virgin Mary).He ancient sculpture,but it could never be taken for an ancient statue. painted his Madonnas in different postures,against different backgrounds.Among them were Madonna del Granducd, Apart from the muscular body and tense emotion,there is the Mondonna with the Fish,The Sistine Madonna,Madonna of the combination of outer calm and inner tension. Chair,Madonna on the Lawn.Because of his Madonnas with sweet Sistine Chapel,Michelangelo was in the middle of doing a sculpture when he was interrupted and half-being forced and cajoled expressions,he came to be known as the elegant Raphael. into doing a fresco on the ceiling of the chapel.It was so called One of the famous paintings beside the Madonnas is School of because it was the chapel in the Vatican which had been built by Pope Athens,a painting depicting two leaders of philosophy,Plato and Sixtus IV.For four years,Michelangelo worked on a 30-feet high Aristotle engaged in argument and surrounded by their audience who scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel,lying on his back and looking had a great variety of attitudes. In his short life of thirty-seven years,his achievements were upwards,to cover the whole ceiling and vault of the building with nine scenes from the First Book of the Bible,the Genesis. great,ranging from paintings to designing of buildings,from portrait painting to mural painting. The frescoes show the stupendous mastery of the artist and it is the evidence of the anguish of a man who was prevented to do what he preferred and forced to do what was commissioned,and proved iv.Titian (about 1488-1576) A Venetian painter.Titian was the most prolific of the great that he could do well. Venetian painters of the western world,a supreme colorist,and in a Dying Slave,a marble statue destined for the tomb of Pope 141 140