High Renaissance Art Flashcards
1500
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Inventor, painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, musician, mathematic, engineer, literary, anatomist, geologist, astronomer, butanist, writer, historian, cartographer
“Universal genius”
“Renaissance man”
Leonardo di Vinci
Last Supper
1495
Fresco (oil and tempera on plaster)
29’10”x13’9”
Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci
Cartoon for Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John
1505
Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper
Approx. 4’6”x3’3”
National Gallery, London
Sfumato
The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing soften outlines or hazy forms
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
1505
Oil on wood
Approx. 2’6”x1’9”
Louvre, Paris
Donato D’Angelo Bramante
San Piero
Montorio, Rome, Italy
1500
Thought to be the location of Saint Peter’s crucifixion
Cf. Temple of Hercules
Saint Peter’s Basilica
The Vatican, Rome, Italy
17th century church
Michelangelo, Raphael, amd Bramante all made plans for Saint Peter’s
Raphael
Marriage of the Virgin
Chapel of Saint Joseph near Florence, Italy
1505
Oil on wood
5’7”x3’10.5”
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Raphael
Madonna in the Meadow
1505
Oil on panel
3’8.5”x10.25”
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Raphael
Small Cowper Madonna
1505
Raphael
Madonna of the Goldfinch
1505
Raphael
Pope Julius II
1510
London, National Gallery
Raphael
Philosophy (School of Athens)
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy
1510
Fresco
Approx. 19’x27’
Raphael
Stanze di Raffaello (The Four Raphael Rooms)
Suite of apartments in the Palace of the Vatican
Commissioned by Pope Julius II
Hall of Constantine (Sala di Constantino)
Room of Heliodorus (Stanza di Eliodoro)
Room of Signatura (Stanza della Segnatura)
Room of the Fire in the Borgo (Stanza dell’Incendio del Borgo)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Pieta
1500
Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Carrara marble
68.5”x76.8”
Commissioned for the french cardinal Jean de Bilheres for his funeral monument
Michelangelo Buonarroti
David
1500
Marble
13’5” high
Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence, Italy
Originally commissioned to be on the roofline of the east end of the Florence Cathedral
Sympolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the republic of Florence
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Moses
San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Italy
1515
Marble
8’4” high
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Interior of Sistine Chapel
Built in 1475
1510
Fresco
Approx. 128’x45’
Commissioned by Pope Julius II at the same time Raphael was painting his rooms
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Creation of Adam
Ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1510
Fresco
Approx. 9’2”x18’8”
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Last Judgement
Fresco on altar wall of the Sistine Chapel
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1540
