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High Renaissance Art

The High Renaissance in the late 15th century was marked by
an increasing sense of realism in many religious works and
the technical mastery of such renowned artists as Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. The different schools of
Renaissance painting, while drawing on Classical models,
produced varying styles: Florentine painting was noted for its
cool clarity, while sensuous colour and warm light characterized
many Venetian works. By the mid-16th century, however, these
styles shifted to the fanciful, contorted imagery of Mannerism.
c.1480 Andrea Mantegna, c.1503–5 Leonardo
Dead Christ (Brera, Milan) da Vinci, Mona Lisa
(Louvre, Paris)
1481–2 Sistine Chapel wall 1519–26 Titian, Madonna of the
frescoes painted by various artists. Pesaro Family (Santa Maria
c.1481–2 Pietro Perugino, Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice)
Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to 1505 Raphael,
St Peter, wall fresco (Sistine Chapel, Rome) Madonna of
the Goldfinch
c.1483–88 Andrea del Verrocchio, completed by (Uffizi, Florence)
Alessandro Leopardi, Equestrian Monument of Bartolomeo
Colleoni (Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice) 1508–12 Michelangelo,
Sistine Chapel ceiling (The Vatican,
c.1487 Giovanni c.1495 Leonardo da Rome). Over 200 preliminary
Bellini, San Giobbe Vinci, Last Supper drawings were made for this
Altarpiece (Accade mia, (Santa Maria delle incredible vision of God’s power
Venice) Grazie, Milan) and humanity’s spiritual awakening.
1480 1500 1520
High Renaissance Mannerism
1480 1500 1520
1499–1504 Luca
Signorelli, Damned
1485 Consigned to Hell (Cappella
Leonardo da Nuova, Orvieto cathedral) 1517 Sodoma,
Vinci, Virgin Marriage of Alexander
of the Rocks 1501–4 Michelangelo, David and Roxana (Villa
(Louvre, Paris) (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence) c.1508 Farnesina, Rome)
Giorgione,
1505 Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Tempesta
Child with Four Saints (San Zaccaria (Accademia,
c.1485 Sandro altarpiece, Accademia, Venice) Venice)
Botticelli, 1516 Michelangelo,
Birth of Venus Dying Slave
(Uffizi, Florence) 1509 Raphael, School of Athens (Stanza (Louvre, Paris)
della Segnatura, The Vatican, Rome).
c.1486 Leonardo The scale, magnificence and harmony
da Vinci, Uomo of this fresco represent the ideals of
Vitruviano (Accademia, the High Renaissance. These ideals 1512–14 Raphael, Angel
Venice) Delivering St Peter from Prison,
sought to express superhuman detail from the Liberation of
rather than human values. St Peter from Prison (Stanza di
Eliodoro, Vatican, Rome)

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