The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 30 - 33 Flashcards
Early Renaissance
- 1400-1500
Perspective discovered
- 1420s
High Renaissance
- 1500-20
Leonardo paints “Mona Lisa”
- 1503-6
Michelangelo frescoes Sistine Chapel ceiling
- 1508-12
Raphael creates Vatican frescoes
- 1509-11
Giorgione paints first reclining nude
- 1510
Titian active in Venice
- 1513
Durer excels at printmaking
- 1520
Mannerism
- 1520-1600
Holbein paints British royalty
- 1530s
Michelangelo works on “Last Judgment”
- 1534-41
Cellini creates gold salt-cellar
- 1542
El Greco goes to Spain
- 1577
Tintoretto paints dramatic scenes form life of Christ
- 1588
Caravaggio paints “Conversion of St. Paul,” Baroque begins
- 1601
Rubens paints royal and mythological figures
- 1609
Hals produces smiling portraits
- 1619
Van Dyck paints aristocracy
- 1630s
Rembrandt creates “Nightwatch”
- 1642
Bernini designs Cornaro Chapel
- 1645
Poussin establishes Classical taste, Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture founded
- 1648
Velazquez paints “Las Meninas”
- 1656
Louis XIV orders Versailles enlarged
- 1668
Wren designs St. Paul’s Cathedral
- 1675
Louis XIV dies, French Rococo begins
- 1715
Pompeii and Herculaneum discovered
- 1738
Reynolds heads Royal Academy
- 1768
David launches Neoclassicism
- 1784-85
Four breakthroughs of renaissance
- oil on stretched canvas
- perspective
- the use of light and shadow
- pyramid configuration
The first three most famous artists
- Masaccio
- Donatello
- Botticelli
