Ghiberti

Sacrafice of Issac

1402, Italian Ren

- Figures graceflly posed

-out thrust hip (typical gothic)

-First classical nude since antiquity

Donatello

Feast of Harod

1427, Italian ren

-Invented perspective in relief sclpture

-Nothing in center gives feeling of something missing

-Masterful stagecraft

Donatello

David

1460, Italian Ren

-Classic statuary style

-For display in the courtyard of the Medici's

-Reinvented class nude

Masaccio

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

1427, IR

-Profound expressions

-Adams abs visible (Adam is sobbing)

-1st time seeing lighting sorce

Masaccio

Holy Trinity

1427, IR

-Mathematically planed piece

-Gives the sense of an actal tomb

-Comp on 2 levels of unequal height

Perugino

Christ delivering the keys of the kingdom to St. Peter

1483, IR

-Painted for the Vatican

-Converging lines connect foreground and background

-Modeled the arch's after the arch of Constantine

Piero Della Francesca

Flagelation of Christ

1465, IR

-Pontious Pilate's palace in Jerusalem

-3 Men in subject are up for debate

-Meticulous floor patern

Mantegena

Painted Chamber

1474, IR

-Evertything in the room is painted

-Duke of Mantowar's chamber

-Almost 9 years to complete

Leonardo Da Vinci

The Last Supper

1498, IR

-Leo's most important work

-Christ's head is the focal point

-Leo sacraficed traditional iconography to show drama

Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1505, IR

-Worlds most famos portrait

-Idenity is still debatable

-Shows Leo's atmospheric perspective

Raphael

Marriage of the Virgin

1504, HR

-In the chapel dedicated to St. Joesph

-Learned the perspective from Perugino

-Upset suitor breaking his magical rod over knee

Raphael

Galatea

1513, HR

-Pagan joy and exberance

-Arranged sturdy figures

-Raphael conceives character sculpturaly

Raphael

Baldassare Castiglione

1514, HR

-Head and hands reveal the man

-Muted tones befit the mood

-Bald was a poet

Michelangelo

David

1504, HR

-Referred to as the "giant"

-Symbol of liberty for the palace

-Before he killed Goliath

Michelanglo

Creation of Adam

1512, HR

-Painted the moment God gives life to Adam

-God is athletic

-Gods figure compliments Adams concave shape

Giorgione

Pastoral Symphony

1510, HR

-Set in Arcadia

-Very tranquil with light shadows

-Alegory of poetry

Bronzino

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

1546, IM

-Painter to the first grand dke of Tuscany

-Commisioned gift for king Francis I of France

-Displayed a fondness for allegory's

Pontormo

Entombment of Christ

1528, Italian Ren

-Shows all features of a mannerism's early painting

-Omitted the corss and tomb

-Rotated figures upon a vertical axis

Tintoretto

The Last Supper

1594, IM

-Shimmering halos establish a biblical nature of the scene

-Christ is above the converging perspective lines

-Moved from articheture to dynamic perspectives

Veronese

Christ in the house of Levi

1573, IM

-Originally called the last supper

-Painted during the counter-refermation

-Shimmering colors span the whole spectrum

Hieronymus Busch

Garden of Earthly Delights

1510, Netherlands high renaissance

-Used to commerate a wedding

-Debate as if artist was a satrist, irreligious or a pornographer

-Resided in palace of Henry III

Pieter Brugel the Elder

Hunters in the snow

1565, NHR

-Illustrates the dynamic variety of his work

-One of a series of 6

-Hunters refers back to older traditions from books of hours