You do know who Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello are, Right?

I was wondering if you had heard of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello. Are you thinking of these guys?

LOL 

I was watching some Animaniacs and they did that gag and said they are artists not turtles. It is the inspiration for this blog post. 

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Reinassance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art. 

He looked like this

Some famous works of his were his sculpture of David

and his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Leonardo... is not Leonardo DiCaprio even if he is super famous as well. Leonardo DaVinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

  He is famous for the Mona Lisa,

Inventing, 

 and his studies.

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

 Among his famous works is his painting of the Madonna. ( not the pop singer)

Donatello was an early Renaissance Italian Sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism. Some of his famous sculptures are St. George, 

and Annunciation

and St. Mark. 

I have a fun project coming up featuring some of these... stay tuned. 

The Renaissance must have been a wonderful creative time, so much of our worlds most prized art came from that time period. 

Love,Saige.