The High Renaissance in Italy:
Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael
FA 0016 History of Western Art
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)
"Self-Portrait, "
1512
Humanism
Giorgio Vasari,
Lives of the Artists
(1550)
Leonardo da Vinci
"Vitruvian Man,"
c. 1485-90
Roman writer
Vitruvius
De Architectura
Leonardo da Vinci "Embryo in the Womb," c. 1510
Leonardo da Vinci,
“Measuring the
Distance from the
Sun and the Moon”
Leonardo da Vinci,
War Machines
many designed for
Lodovico Sforza, despot
Duke of Milan (died 1508)
Leonardo da Vinci, Colossal Bronze Horse for
Lodovico Sforza (modern)
Andrea
Verrocchio,
"The Baptism of
Christ," c. 1470
Leonardo da Vinci, “Annunciation” 1472-75
sfumato = “smoky haze”
Leonardo da Vinci, "The Last Supper" mural, refectory of Santa
Maria delle Grazie, Milan, c. 1495-98
Andrea Castagno, “Last Supper” refectory of
Sant'Apollonia (Florence) 1447-49
Ghirlandaio, “Last Supper” convent refectory
of San Marco (Florence) 1480
Leonardo da Vinci,
"Mona Lisa,"
c. 1503-1519
La Gioconda
wife of Francesco
del Giocondo
Raphael
(1483-1520)
aka Raffello
Sanzio
Raphael,
"Madonna of
the Meadow, "
1505
Raphael, "Madonna della Sedia," 1514
Raphael,
"Pope Julius II,"
1511-12
Della Rovere
Raphael, frescoes in
Stanza della
Segnatura
(Pope’s private
library), Rome,
1509-11
Raphael "School of Athens" fresco, Stanza della
Segnatura, Rome, 1509-11