Italian Renaissance

How do you show what it means to

be human?

Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe Sistine Chapel Ceiling

1508-12

Michelangelo BuonarrotiThe Sistine Chapel Ceiling

1508-12

Leonardo da VinciLa Giaconda (Mona Lisa)

1503-1519

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1494–1498Tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic, 460 cm × 880 cm,

Milan

Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511Fresco, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

Andrea Mantegna, The Lamentation of Christ, c. 1480

Tempera on canvas, 68 cm × 81 cm, Milan

Sandor Botticelli, La Primavera, c. 1482Tempera on panel, 202 cm × 314 cm, Uffizi Gallery,

Florence