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