1400-1600 Renaissance Art

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San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico

This painting is considered a masterpiece for its three-dimensionality and also for being a great example of tompe l’oeil (explained below, feature #4).

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Herod’s Banquet by Domenico Ghirlandaio

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Madonna and Child with Saints by Alvise Vivarini

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Perspective View with Portico by Canaletto

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Saint Luke drawing the Virgin by Rogier van der Weyden

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San Zaccaria Altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini

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The Alms of St Anthony by Lorenzo Lotto

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Mystical Marriage of St Catherine by Paolo Veronese

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The Apotheosis of St Roch by Tintoretto

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The Last Supper by Andrea del Castagno

Note the classical pillars (more on this below in feature #12) and the unusual addition of griffin statues (sphinx-like mythological creatures found in ancient Greece and Egypt)

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Execution of Savonarola on the Piazza della Signoria by Francesco Rosselli

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The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci

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Holy Trinity by Masaccio

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The Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael

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The School of Athens by Raphael

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St Mark Enthroned by Titian

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The Creation of the Sun and the Moon by Michelangelo

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Lamentation of Christ by Andrea Mantegna

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The Apotheosis of Venice by Paolo Veronese

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The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello

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The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck

As hard as it is to believe, this is a painting, not sculpture.

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Camera degli Sposi Ceiling Oculus (circular opening) by Andrea Mantegna

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Main hall of Palazzo Lancellotti by Agostino Tassi

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Sala delle Prospettive of Villa Farnesina by Baldassare Peruzzi

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The Sermon of St. Stephen at Jerusalem by Carpaccio

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The Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci

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The Annunciation by Fra Angelico

Note the Annunciation scene is taking place in a Italian-style loggia (explained below, feature #12).

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Torture of St John the Evangelist by Filippino Lippi

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The crucifixion aka the Calvary by Andrea Mantegna

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St. Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna

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Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden by Masaccio

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The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden

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The Damned Cast into Hell by Luca Signorelli

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Salome With Head of John the Baptist by Titian

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Contarini Madonna by Giovanni Bellini

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San Giobbe Altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini

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The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

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Transfiguration by Raphael

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Assumption of the Virgin by Titian

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The Sistine Madonna by Raphael

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Danaë by Correggio

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Putti Fighting by Guido Reni

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Libyan Sibyl by Michelangelo

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The Inspiration of the Poet by Nicolas Poussin

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The Triumph of Galatea by Raphael

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The Feast of the Gods by Giovanni Bellini and Titian

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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

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Primavera by Sandro Botticelli

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An Allegory with Venus and Cupid by Agnolo Bronzino

This is a Mannerist masterpeice. Typical features of Mannerism are twisted figures and crowded canvases (more information below, Mannerist features #1 and #3).

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Venetia between Justitia and Pax by Paolo Veronese

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Wedding Banquet of Cupid and Psyche by Raphael

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Wedding Night of Alexander the Great by Il Sodoma

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Minerva Sending Away Mars from Peace and Prosperity by Tintoretto

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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian

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Venus with a Mirror by Titian

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The Rape of Europa by Paolo Veronese

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Venus Blindfolding Cupid by Titian

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Sacred and Profane Love by Titian