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High Renaissance Art
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Last Supper (cleaned), ca. 1495–1498. Fresco (oil and tempera on plaster), 29’ 10” x 13’ 9”. Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Virgin of the Rocks, ca. 1485. Oil on wood (transferred to canvas), approx. 6’ 3” x 3’ 7”. Louvre, Paris.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, cartoon for Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John, ca. 1505–1507. Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper, approx. 4’ 6” x 3’ 3”. National Gallery, London.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Mona Lisa, ca. 1503–1505. Oil on wood, approx. 2’ 6” x 1’ 9”. Louvre, Paris.
Leonardo, Vitruvian Man, ca. 1490 Ink, 13 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice.
RAPHAEL, Madonna in the Meadow, 1505. Oil on panel, 3’ 8 1/2” x 2’ 10 1/4”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
RAPHAEL, Philosophy (School of Athens), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy, 1509–1511. Fresco, approx. 19’ x 27’.
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RAPHAEL, Baldassare Castiglione, ca. 1514. Oil on wood transferred to canvas, approx. 2’ 6 1/4” x 2’ 2 1/2”. Louvre, Paris.
RAPHAEL, Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi, ca. 1517. Oil on wood panel. approx 5' x 4'. Galleri degli Uffizi, Florence.
Michelangelo, Pietà, from Old Saint Peter’s, c. 1500, Marble. Height: 5’ 8 1/2 in. Saint Peter’s, Vatican, Rome.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, David, 1501–1504. Marble, 13’ 5” high. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Moses, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Italy, ca. 1513–1515. Marble, approx. 8’ 4” high.
Interior of the Sistine Chapel (view facing east), Vatican City, Rome, Italy, built 1473. Copyright © Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1508–1512. Fresco, approx. 128’ x 45’.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Creation of Adam (detail), ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1511–1512. Fresco, approx. 9’ 2” x 18’ 8”.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Last Judgment, fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1534–1541. Copyright © Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo.
Michelangelo, Vestibule of the Laurentian Library, Monastery of San Loreznzo, Florence. 1524-34. Staircase completed 1559.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Museo Capitolino, Capitoline Hill, Rome, Italy, designed ca. 1537.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, aerial view of Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio), Rome, Italy, designed ca. 1537.
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, plan for Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1546. (Note that this is later than the Bramante's plan, below -- Michelangelo modified Bramante's plan.)
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI, Saint Peter’s (view from the northwest), Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1546–1564. Dome completed by GIACOMO DELLA PORTA, 1590.
DONATO D’ANGELO BRAMANTE, plan for the new Saint Peter’s, the Vatican, Rome, Italy, 1505
DONATO D’ANGELO BRAMANTE, Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Italy, 1502(?).
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO (and/or TITIAN?), Pastoral Symphony, ca. 1508. Oil on canvas, approx. 3’ 7” x 4’ 6”. Louvre, Paris.
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO, The Tempest, ca. 1510. Oil on canvas, 2’ 7” x 2’ 4 3/4”. Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice.
TITIAN, Madonna of the Pesaro Family, Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice, Italy, 1519–1526. Oil on canvas, approx. 16’ x 9’.
TITIAN, Assumption of the Virgin, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, Italy, ca. 1516-1518. Oil on wood, 22' 6" x 11' 10".
TITIAN, Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne, 1522–1523. Oil on canvas, 5’ 9” x 6’ 3”. National Gallery, London.
TITIAN, Venus of Urbino, 1538. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ x 5’ 6”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
TITIAN, Isabella d’Este, 1534–1536. Oil on canvas, 3’ 4 1/8” x 2’ 1 3/16”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
ANTONIO ALLEGRI DA CORREGGIO, Assumption of the Virgin, dome fresco of Parma Cathedral, Parma, Italy, 1526–1530.
JACOPO DA PONTORMO, Entombment (Descent from the Cross), Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicità, Florence, Italy, 1525–1528. Oil on wood, approx. 10’ 3” x 6’ 6”.
PARMIGIANINO, Madonna with the Long Neck, ca. 1535. Oil on wood, approx. 7’ 1” x 4’ 4”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
BRONZINO, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury), ca. 1546. Oil on wood, approx. 5’ 1” x 4’ 8 3/4”. National Gallery, London.
BRONZINO, Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1530s. Oil on wood, approx. 3’ 1 1/2” x 2’ 5 1/2”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
SOFONISBA ANGUISSOLA, Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters and Brother, ca. 1555. Methuen Collection, Corsham Court, Wiltshire.
LAVINIA FONTANA, Noli Me Tangere, 1581, oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence.
GIOVANNI DA BOLOGNA, Abduction of the Sabine Women, Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy, completed 1583. Marble, approx. 13’ 6” high.
GIULIO ROMANO, interior courtyard facade of the Palazzo del Tè, Mantua, Italy, 1525–1535.
GIACOMO DELLA PORTA, facade of Il Gesù, Rome, Italy, ca. 1575–1584.
TINTORETTO, Last Supper, Chancel, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy, 1594. Oil on canvas, 12’ x 18’ 8”.
PAOLO VERONESE, Christ in the House of Levi, 1573. Oil on canvas, approx. 18’ 6” x 42’ 6”. Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice.
ANDREA PALLADIO, Villa Rotonda (formerly Villa Capra), near Vicenza, Italy, ca. 1566–1570.
ANDREA PALLADIO, plan of the Villa Rotonda (formerly Villa Capra), near Vicenza, Italy, ca. 1566–1570.
ANDREA PALLADIO, west facade of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy, begun 1565.
ANDREA PALLADIO, interior of San Giorgio Maggiore (view facing east), Venice, Italy, begun 1565
The Age of Reformation:
16th century art in Northern Europe and Spain
(Corresponds to Chapter 23 in Gardner)
MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD, Isenheim Altarpiece (closed), Crucifixion (center panel), from the chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany, ca. 1510–1515. Oil on panel, center panel 9' 9 1/2” x 10’ 9”, each wing 8’ 2 1/2” x 3’ 1/2”, predella 2’ 5 1/2” x 11’ 2”. Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar
MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD, Isenheim Altarpiece (open), center shrine carved by NIKOLAUS HAGENAUER in 1490, from the chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany,ca. 1510–1515. Shrine, painted and gilt limewood. Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar.
MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD, Isenheim Altarpiece (first opening), Showing Annunciation, Nativity, Resurrection. Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar. (High Ren 47)
Albrecht Durer, Self-Portrait, 1500. Oil on wood panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
ALBRECHT DÜRER, Four Apostles, 1526. Oil on panel, each panel 7’ 1” x 2’ 6”. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
ALBRECHT DÜRER, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), 1504. Engraving, approx. 9 7/8” x 7 5/8”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (centennial gift of Landon T. Clay).
JEAN CLOUET, Francis I, ca. 1525–1530. Tempera and oil on panel, approx. 3’ 2” x 2’ 5”. Louvre, Paris.
ROSSO FIORENTINO and FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO, ensemble of architecture, sculpture, and painting, Gallery of King Francis I, Fontainebleau, France, ca. 1530–1540.
Château de Chambord, Chambord, France, begun 1519.
PIERRE LESCOT and JEAN GOUJON, west facade of the Square Court of the Louvre, Paris, France, begun 1546.
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER, Hunters in the Snow, 1565. Oil on panel, approx. 3’ 10” x 5’ 4”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER, Peasant Wedding, c. 1568, oil on wood, 45x64 1/2 in., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1558, oil on canvas mounted on wood, 73 x 112 cm, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
EL GRECO, The Burial of Count Orgaz, Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain, 1586. Oil on canvas, approx. 16’ x 12’.
El Greco, View of Toledo, c. 1610 Oil on canvas. 47 1/4 x 42 3/4” The Metropolitan Museum of Art
LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER, Allegory of Law and Grace, ca. 1530. Woodcut, 10 5/8” x 1’ 3/4”. British Museum, London.