Renaissance Art History 2010

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-The Duomo
-architect: Brunelleschi
- date: 1420-1436

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Saint Peter’s
architect: Michelangelo
location: Rome
date: 1546-1564

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Villa Rotonda
architect: Palladio
location: Vicenza, Italy
period: Late Renaissance
date: 1566-1570

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Virgin of the Rocks
artist: Leonardo da Vinci
period: High Renaissance
date: 1485
• use of sfumato – the hazy atmosphere
• modeling of figures by use of light
• pyramidal composition

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David
artist: Michelangelo
period: High Renaissance
date: 1501-1504
- Originally intended to stand high up on the façade of the Duomo

- Unlike other renderings of David, this statue shows the Biblical hero just before he slays Goliath.

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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
artist: Michelangelo
period: High Renaissance
date: 1508-1512

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School of Athens
artist: Raphael
period: High Renaissance
date: 1509-1511
- One of four frescoes painted by Raphel in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Pope’s library, under a commission from Julius II.

- Each painting represents a different aspect of human endeavor: Theology, Law, Poetry and Philosophy.

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Madonna of the Meadows
artist: Raphael
period: High Renaissance
date: 1505
- pyramidal composition of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks

- oil

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Feast at the House of Levi
artist: Veronese
period: Late Renaissance
date: 1573
-originally depicting a Last supper. Changed under questioning from the Inquisition.