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Name: Primavera
Date: c. 1438 CE
Period/Style: High Renaissance (Ch. 22)
Artist: Botticelli
Patron: Medici
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Tempera on wood
Context: Probably intended to commemorate the May 1482 wedding of Lorezno Medici, this lyrical painting celebrates love in spring, with venus and cupid at the center of the composition.
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Name: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Date: c. 1508 CE
Period/Style: High Renaissance (Ch. 22)
Artist: Michelangelo
Original Location: Rome, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Michelangelo labored almost 4 years in the Sistine Chapel, painting over 300 biblical figures on its roof, illustrating the creation and fall of mankind.
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Name: The Last Supper
Date: c. 1495 CE
Period/Style: High Renaissance (Ch. 22)
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Original Location: Rome, Italy
Material/Technique: Oil and tempera on wood
Context: Christ has just announced that one of his disciples will betray him, and each one reacts. Christ is both the psychological focus of Leonardo's piece and centered at the point where all perspective lines converge.
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Name: Mona Lisa
Date: c. 1500 CE
Period/Style: High Renaissance (Ch. 22)
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on wood
Context: Leonardo's skill with chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective is on display in this new kind of portrait which displays the sitter as an individual personality who engages the viewer psychologically.
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Name: David
Date: c. 1501 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 22)
Artist: Michelangelo
Original Location: San Marco, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Marble
Context: In this colossal statue, Michelangelo represented David in heroic classical nudity, capturing the tension of Lysippan athletes and the emotionalism of Hellenistic statuery.
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Name: Creation of Adam
Date: 1511 - 1512
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Pastoral Symphony
Date: 1508 - 1510
Period/Style: High Renaissance
Artist: Giorgione da Castelfranco (and/or Titian)
Patron: -
Location: Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Description: Venetian art is often described as poetic. In this painting, Giorgione so eloquently evoked the pastoral mood that the uncertainty about the picture's meaning is not distressing. Th mood and rich color are enough. Additionally, many scholars believe that the piece may be an early work of Giorgione's student, Titian.
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Name: Madonna of the Pesaro Family
Date: 1519 - 1526
Period/Style: High Renaissance
Artist: Titian
Patron: Pesaro Family
Location: Pesaro Chapel, Venice, Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Description: In this dynamic composition presaging a new kind of pictorial design, Titian placed the figures on a steep diagonal, positioning the Madonna the focus of the composition, well off the central axis.
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Name: Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne
Date: 1522 - 1523
Period/Style: Late Renaissance
Artist: Titian
Location: Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Description: Titian's rich and luminous colors add greatly to the sensuous appeal of this mythological painting in which he based one of the figures on the recently unearthed statue of Laocoon.
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Name: The Feast of the Gods
Date: 1529 CE
Period/Style: High Renaissance
Artist: Giovanni Bellini and Titian
Location: Ferrera, Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Description: In Feast of the Gods, based on Ovid's Fasti, Bellini developed a new kind of mythological painting in which the Olympian deities appear as peasants enjoying a picnic in the soft afternoon light.
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Name: San Zaccaria Altarpiece
Date: 1505 CE
Period/Style: High Rennaisance
Artist: Giovanni Bellini
Location: San Zaccaria, Venice, Italy
Material/Technique: Oil on wood transferred to canvas.
Description: In this sacra conversazione uniting saints from different eras, Bellini created a feeling of serenity and spiritual calm through the harmonious and balanced presentation of color and light.
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Name: Villa Rotonda (formerly Villa Capra)
Date: c. 1550 - 1570 CE
Period/Style: Venetian Palladian
Artist: Andrea Palladio
Patron: Capra family
Location: Near Vicenza, Italy
Description: Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotonda has four identical facades, each one resembling a Roman temple with a columnar porch. In the center is a great dome-covered rotunda modeled on the Pantheon.
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