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Soaring to New Heights – The Renaissance in Italy
TODAY Florence—The School of the
World: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Others: Lorenzo the Magnificent; Maturing of
Italian Humanism and Renaissance Ideals
Fra Filippo Lippi - Madonna with the Child
and two Angels1465
Tempera on wood, 95 x 62 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Piero della Francesca - Baptism of Christ - 1448-50
Tempera on panel, 167 x 116 cm
National Gallery, London
Andrea del Castagno - The Youthful David
c. 1450Tempera on leather on wood, width at bottom
115,6 x 41 cmNational Gallery of Art,
Washington
Lorenzo de’ Medici, also known as Lorenzo the
Magnificent Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters, the most brilliant of the Medici. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453–78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter's assassination, was sole ruler from 1478 to 1492.
Raphael – Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 1518.
Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472
Italian humanist, architect, and principal initiator of Renaissance art theory. In his personality, works, and breadth of learning, he is considered the prototype of the Renaissance “universal man.”
Paolo Uccello - 1397-1475
Florentine painter whose work attempted uniquely to reconcile two distinct artistic styles—the essentially decorative late Gothic and the new heroic style of the early Renaissance. He was the first painter to complete a work in precise linear perspective.
Paolo Uccello - Creation of Eve and Original Sin - 1432-36Fresco, 244 x 478 cm - Green Cloister, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence
Paolo Uccello - Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown Off His Horse - 1450s
Tempera on wood, 182 x 220 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Paolo Uccello – Crucifixion - 1460-65Tempera on panel, 45 x 67 cm - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Madrid
Sandro Botticelli - 1445-1510
One of the greatest lyrical painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His The Birth of Venus and Primavera are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance. At the same time, he never wholly lost the influence of the International Gothic Style.
Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi – 1465-67 - Tempera on
panel, 50 x 136 cm - National Gallery, London
Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi - c. 1475 - Tempera on
panel111 x 134 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi – 1481-82 - Tempera on
panel70 x 103 cm - National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sandro Botticelli – Primavera - c. 1482
Tempera on panel, 203 x 314 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus - c. 1485
Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci - 1452-1519
Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495–98) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503–06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time.
Verrochio The Baptism of Christ 1472-75
Detail by Leonardo da Vinci
Tempera and oil on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci - Automobile
1478-80Metalpoint, pen and brush on
paper, 27 x 20 cmBiblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci - Assault chariot with scythes - c. 1485
Silverpoint, pen and ink on paper, 210 x 292 mm - Biblioteca Reale, Turin
Leonardo da Vinci - Comparison of scalp skin
and onion1489
Pen, ink and red chalk on paper, 203 x 152 mm
Royal Library, Windsor
Leonardo da Vinci - Vitruvian Man1492
Pen, ink, watercolour and metalpoint on paper, 343 x
245 mmGallerie dell'Accademia,
Venice
Leonardo da Vinci – Annunciation - 1472-75Tempera on wood, 98 x 217 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of Ginevra
de' Benci1474-46
Oil on wood, 38,8 x 36,7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady
with an Ermine)1483-90
Oil on wood, 54,8 x 40,3 cmCzartoryski Museum,
Cracow
Leonardo da Vinci - Madonna Litta
c. 1490-91, Tempera on canvas, transferred from
panel, 42 x 33 cmThe Hermitage, St.
Petersburg
Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper - 1498Mixed technique, 460 x 880 cm
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Michelangelo - 1475-1564
Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then, he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.
Laocoönmarble sculpture attributed to Agesander, Athenodorus,
and Polydorus of Rhodes (or perhaps a Roman copy)
2nd century B.C.E.–1st century C.E. – Vatican
Museum
Michelangelo – Vatican Pietà -1499 - Marble, height 174 cm, width at the base 195 cm - Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican
Madonna and Child - (Bruges Madonna) -
Michelangelo - 1501-05Marble, height: 128 cm
(including base)O.L. Vrouwekerk, Bruges
Michelangelo - The Holy Family
with the infant St. John the Baptist (the Doni tondo)
c. 1506Tempera on
panel, diameter 120 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Raphael - 1483-1520
Master painter and architect of the Italian Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his paintings of the Madonna and for his large figural compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition, and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
RaphaelAngel (fragment of
the Baronci Altarpiece)
1500-01Oil on wood, 57 x 36
cmMusée du Louvre, Paris
RaphaelCrucifixion (Città di Castello Altarpiece)
1502-03Oil on wood, 281 x 165 cmNational Gallery, London
Raphael - The Granduca Madonna
1504Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
Raphael - Madonna and Child (The Small Cowper
Madonna)1504-05
Oil on wood, 58 x 43 cmNational Gallery of Art,
Washington
Raphael - Portrait of Maddalena Doni
1506Oil on panel, 63 x 45
cmGalleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti),
Florence
Raphael - Madonna of Belvedere
(Madonna del Prato)1506
Oil on wood, 113 x 88 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna