Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. The Creation of Adam is part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted circa 1511–1512. It illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. It is the most well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece of art is rivaled only by the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. It is on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, was completed in 1504 for a Franciscan church in Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It is currently located in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
8. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Most known painting: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Bal du moulin de la Galette was painted in 1876 depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. It is housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism’s most celebrated masterpieces.
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