Renaissance Art

But First- Medieval Art!

Preoccupied with RELIGION.

Virgin Mary, Saints, Jesus, as baby and on the Cross.

Cimabue,

Madonna Enthroned

1290

Bonaventura Berlinghiera,

St. Francis,

1235

Duccio, The Maesta Altarpiece, 1308

Duccio

Rucellai Madonna

1285

Simone Martini, The Annunciation, 1333

The Renaissance Begins, in Italy

•worldly concerns, not just spiritual

•love of the human figure

•use of perspective to show depth

•individual expressions, naturalism

Giotto, The Flight into Egypt, 1304

Giotto, The Lamentation,

Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485

Botticelli, La Primavera, 1485

Piero della Francesca Resurrection1458

Donatello,

David,

1430

Donatello, Mary Magdalene, 1455

Masaccio,

The Holy Trinity,

1428

Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano, 1456

Perugino, Christ handing the Keys of the Church to Saint Peter, 1482

Andrea Mantegna, The Dead Christ, 1501

Andrea Mantegna, Room of the Newlyweds Camera del Spogli, 1474

Filippo Brunelleschi,

The Pazzi Chapel,

1440

Leonardo da Vinci,

Mona Lisa,

1503

Leonardo de Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495

The Last Supper, computer restoration

Leonardo da Vinci,

Self-Portrait,1515 Vitruvian Man 1492

Michelangelo, Battle of the Centaurs, 1492

Michelangelo,

David,

1504

Michelangelo, The Vatican Pieta, 1499

MichelangeloMoses1522

Michelangelo ,

The Florentine Pieta, 1550

Michelangelo

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Last Judgment,

Michelangelo,

Sistine Ceiling-

Book of Genesis

1509-1512

Michelangelo,

Last Judgment,

Sistine Chapel

1534-41

Michelangelo, The Holy Family, 1503

Raphael, The School of Athens, 1510-11

Raphael, Madonna and Child with St. John, 1510

Raphael,Madonna del

Foligno,1512

Raphael, Madonna of the Chair

Raphael,Madonna of the Meadows

RaphaelSistine Madonna1513

Raphael,

Galatea,

1543

                                        

Andrea Palladio,

Villa Rotonda,

1566

Titian, Bacchanal, 1523

Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian, 1522

Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods, 1529

The Renaissance in the North

Jan van Eyck,

The Arnolfini Marriage,

1434

Jan van Eyck,

The Last Judgement,

1430

Jan and Hubert van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (open), 1432

Albrecht Altdorfer,

The Battle of Issus,

1529

Robert Campin, The Merode Altarpiece , 1428

Mathais Grunewald, Crucifixion, 1515

Roger van der Weyden, The Deposition (from the Cross), 1435

Pieter Bruegel, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559

Albrecht Durer,

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,

1497

Albrecht DurerKnight, Death,

and the Devil1513

Albrecht DurerMelancholia1514

Albrecht Durer,

Praying Hands,

1508

Albrecht Durer

The Hare

A Great Piece of Turf

Hans Holbein the Younger,

The French Ambassadors,

1533

Note the anamorphic figure near the bottom, it is intended to be viewed at an angle, and is a reminder of mortality.

Hans Holbein the Younger,

Henry VIII,

1540

Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1500

Hieronymous BoschHell, from the Garden

of Earthly Delights panel

1505

Claus Sluter,

The Well of Moses,

1395-1406