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
LAST TIME…
Filippo Brunelleschi - Dome of the Cathedral
1420-36 - Duomo, Florence
Donatello David
c. 1430
Bronze, height: 185 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello,
Florence
Masaccio - The Expulsion
The Brancacci Chapel,
Florence
1426
Fra Angelico - c.1434-35 Deposition of Christ - Florence: San Marco
Fra Filippo Lippi - Madonna
with the Child and two Angels
1465
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. 1450
Tempera on leather on wood,
width at bottom 115,6 x 41 cm
National 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.”
Basilica
550 B.C.E. – Paestum, Italy
Leon Battista Alberti
1445 -1470 Palazzo Rucellai
facade Florence
Leon Battista Alberti - Exterior of Tempio Malatestiana - 1450
S. Francesco, Rimini
Leon Battista Alberti - 1456-70 - Santa Maria Novella - Florence
Leon Battista Alberti - 1456-70 Santa Maria Novella - facade Florence
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 - 1432-36
Fresco, 244 x 478 cm - Green Cloister, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Paolo Uccello - Birth of the Virgin - c. 1435 - Fresco, 302 x 361 cm
Duomo, Prato
Paolo Uccello - Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown Off His Horse - 1450s
Tempera on wood, 182 x 220 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Paolo Uccello – Crucifixion - 1460-65
Tempera 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 panel
111 x 134 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Sandro Botticelli – Portrait of
Giuliano de' Medici
1478
Panel, 54 x 36 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi – 1481-82 - Tempera on panel
70 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
Fra Filippo Lippi - Madonna with the
Child and two Angels
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 147275
Tempera and oil on
panel
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence
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
1478-80
Metalpoint, pen and brush on
paper, 27 x 20 cm
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci - Crossbow Machine - 1480-82 - Drawing
Biblioteca 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 – Drawings of a woman’s torso and torso and arms - Biblioteca
Ambrosiana, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci – Flying Machine – 1487 (LEFT)
Giant Crossbow 1480-82 (RIGHT)
Leonardo da Vinci Comparison of scalp skin and
onion
1489
Pen, ink and red chalk on
paper, 203 x 152 mm
Royal Library, Windsor
Leonardo da Vinci - Vitruvian Man
1492
Pen, ink, watercolour and
metalpoint on paper, 343 x 245
mm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Leonardo da Vinci – Annunciation - 1472-75
Tempera on wood, 98 x 217 cm - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Ginevra de'
Benci
1474-46
Oil on wood, 38,8 x
36,7 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Leonardo da Vinci - St Jerome
c. 1480
Oil on panel, 103 x 75 cm
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican,
Rome
Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of
Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an
Ermine)
1483-90
Oil on wood, 54,8 x 40,3 cm
Czartoryski Museum, Cracow
Leonardo da Vinci - Madonna Litta
c. 1490-91, Tempera on canvas,
transferred from panel, 42 x 33 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Leonardo da Vinci - Virgin of the
Rocks
1483-86
Oil on panel, 199 x 122 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Leonardo da Vinci - Studies for the Last Supper - c. 1495
Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper - 1498
Mixed technique, 460 x 880 cm
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
High Resolution Image of Restored Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci - The Battle of Anghiari (detail) - 1503-05
Black chalk, pen and ink
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.
Laocoön
marble 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
Madonna of the Stairs
1490-92
Marble, 55,5 x 40 cm
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
Pazzi Madonna – Donatello 1420-30s
Marble, 74,5 x 69,5 cm - Staatliche Museen,
Berlin
Michelangelo
Battle - c. 1492
Marble,
84,5 x 90,5 cm
Casa Buonarroti,
Florence
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 - 1501-05
Marble, height: 128 cm
(including base)
O.L. Vrouwekerk, Bruges
Michelangelo
David
1504
Marble, height
434 cm
Galleria
dell'Accademia,
Florence
Michelangelo - Battle of Cascina (part) – 1505 - Cartoon
Private collection
Michelangelo - The
Holy Family with the
infant St. John the
Baptist (the Doni
tondo)
c. 1506
Tempera 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.
Pietro Perugino
c. 1494
Francesco delle Opere
Florence: Galleria degli
Uffizi
Raphael
Angel (fragment of the
Baronci Altarpiece)
1500-01
Oil on wood, 57 x 36 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raphael
Crucifixion (Città di Castello
Altarpiece)
1502-03
Oil on wood, 281 x 165 cm
National Gallery, London
Raphael - The Granduca
Madonna
1504
Oil 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 cm
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Raphael - The Three Graces - 1504-05
Oil on panel, 17 x 17 cm - Musée Condé, Chantilly
Raphael - St Michael
and the Dragon
c. 1505
Oil on wood, 31 x 27 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raphael - Self-Portrait
1506
Oil on wood, 45 x 33 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence
Raphael - Portrait of
Maddalena Doni
1506
Oil on panel, 63 x 45 cm
Galleria Palatina
(Palazzo Pitti), Florence
Raphael - Madonna of
Belvedere (Madonna del
Prato)
1506
Oil on wood, 113 x 88 cm
Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna
Raphael - The
Entombment
1507
Oil on wood, 184 x 176
cm
Galleria Borghese,
Rome
Painted in Umbria
OUR NEXT TOPIC
The Italian Schools:
Redefinitions of Classical Art;
Expulsion of the Medici;
Girolamo Savonarola; The
Republic, Florence loses her
“sons”