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Survey of Western Art History II the High Renaissance 9/19/2008 Survey of Western Art History II The High Renaissance chiaroscuro sfumato humanism coffer isocephalic arrangement condottiere aisle grisaille Plato choir transept putti Platonism crossing iconography Neo‐Platonism nave allegorical mythologies Medici ambulatory Ovid’s Metamorphosis niche genre façade pilasters loggia architrave centrally planned church arcade cornice sculptured wall motif bay linear perspective buttresses transverse arch vanishing point colonnade orthogonals Pope Julius II corbel illusionism Sistine Chapel pediment ignudi tondo spandrels basilica glaze disegno vs colorito Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1485‐90. Pen and ink 1 9/19/2008 Leonardo da Vinci. Church resembling the Holy Sepulcher in Milan, Ms. 2148 fol. 4r. Pen and ink Donato BPlBramante. Plan of the Tempietto with projected courtyard, after the 16th‐century engraving by Sebastiano Serlio Donato Bramante, Tempietto, c. 1502‐3, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome An Ideal City, mid‐15th century. Panel painting 2 9/19/2008 Matteo de' Pasti, foundation medal of the Tempio Maltestiano, Rimini, 1450. Bronze Donato Bramante. Plan for the New St. Peter's, 1505. Vatican, Rome Plan for the New St. Peter's as built to Michelangelo's Michelangelo, plan for the design with additions by New Saint Peter's, c. 1546 Carlo Maderno, 1606‐15. Vatican, Rome Michelangelo, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican, c. 1546‐1564 3 9/19/2008 Andrea Verrocchio. Baptism of Christ, c. 1470. Oil on panel Leonardo da Vinci. Last Supper, refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, c. 1495‐1498. Fresco Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ Child and the Young John the Baptist. Charcoal heightened with white on brown paper 4 9/19/2008 Leonardo da Vinci. MdMadonna an dChildd Child with Saint Anne, c. 1503‐1506. Oil on wood Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa, c. 1503‐1505. Oil on wood Michelangelo, copy of Masaccio's Saint Peter in The Tribute Money, 1489‐1490. Pen drawing 5 9/19/2008 Michelangelo. Pietà, 1498‐9‐1500. Marble Giovanni Bellini. Pietà, c. 1500‐1505. Oil on wood Michelangelo, David 1501‐1504. Marble Donatello, David, c. Andrea del 1430‐1440. Verrocchio, Bronze David, early 1470s. Bronze Michelangelo. Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, c. 1510. Fresco 6 9/19/2008 Michelangelo. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508‐12. Fresco Michelangelo, Fall of Man, 1510, detail of the Sistine ceiling (after cleaning) 7 9/19/2008 Masaccio. The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, left pilaster of the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Jeremiah and the Libyan Sibyl, details of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo, view of the Laurentian Library vestibule and staircase, San Lorenzo, Florence. 1524‐1559 8 9/19/2008 Michelangelo, Last Judgment (after cleaning), Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome. 1534‐1541, Fresco Michelangelo. Rondanini Pietà, c. 1555‐ 1564. Marble Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow, 1505. Oil on panel 9 9/19/2008 Raphael. Pope Julius ll, 1511‐1512. Oil on panel Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, 1514. Oil on canvas Raphael, Galatea, Villa Farnesina, Rome, c. 1512. Fresco, 10 9/19/2008 Raphael, Disputation over the Sacrament, 1509‐1511 Raphael, School of Athens, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome, 1509‐1511 11 9/19/2008 Jacopo Bellini, Christ before Pilate, Louvre sketchbook, 1503. Drawing on parchment Gentile Bellini, Sultan Mehmet II, c. 1480. Oil on canvas Gentile Bellini. Procession of the Reliquary of the Cross in Piazza San Marco, 1496. Oil on canvas 12 9/19/2008 Giovanni Bellini. San Giobbe Altarpiece, 1480s. Oil on wood Giovanni Bellini, Doge Leonardo Loredan, soon after 1501. Oil on wood. Giovanni Bellini, Saint Francis in Ecstasy, c. 1485. Panel 13 9/19/2008 Giorgione. Tempest, c. 1505‐1510. Oil on canvas Giorgione. Old Woman (Col Tempo), early 16th century. Oil on canvas Giorgione or Titian. Fête Champêtre (Pastoral Concert), c. 1510. Oil on canvas 14 9/19/2008 Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) Assumption of the Virgin, 1516‐ 1518. Oil on panel Titian. Pesaro Madonna, 1519‐ 1526. Oil on canvas Titian, Venus of Urbino, c. 1538. Oil on canvas 15 9/19/2008 Titian, Rape of Europa, 1559‐1562. Oil on canvas Titian, Portrait of Ranuccio Farnese, 1542. Oil on canvas Titian, Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555. Oil on canvas 16 9/19/2008 Titian, Giorgio Cornaro with a Falcon, 1537, oil on canvas 17.
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