View of the Sistine Chapel (Rome)

Left: Present-day viewBelow: Reconstruction drawing of the interior of the time of Sixtus

IV

Perugino. Christ Delivering the Keys to the Kingdom (Sistine Chapel, Rome) 1481-83, fresco

Perugino/ expression of the church’s authority in a classical setting/ Sixtus IV/ action in the middle

ground

Botticelli’s Punishment of Korah

Perugino. Baptism of Christ, (Sistine Chapel, Rome) 1481-83, fresco

Andrea Mantegna. Camera degli Sposi, 1474, frescoes

Andrea Mantegna/ portraits of Roman

emperors

Camera degli

Sposi/ di sotto in su/

putti/ peacock

Ludovico Gonzaga and his family/ life at the court of Mantua/ Vittorino da Feltre and the “uomo

universale”/ a family of deformities/ the mystery of the letter

Andrea Mantegna. Saint Sebastian, 1450s-1470s.

Andrea Mantegna. Dead Christ, c. 1501, tempera on canvas

foreshortening/ emphasis on Christ’s wounds

Andrea Mantegna. St. James Led to

Martyrdom, from the Ovetari

Chapel (Padua), c. 1455 (now destroyed)

St. James/ interest in the archeological

past/ challenging problems of perspective

Andrea Mantegna. Parnassus, c. 1499-1502, tempera on canvas