"Venus de'Medici"

Roman Copy (original 3rd century BC)

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Ospedale degli Innocenti

1419-1424

Florence

Gnomon of Santa Maria del Fiore

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

1475

Florence

"Portrait of Luca Pacioli"

Jacopo de'Barbari

1495

"Landscape with Roman Edifices" (sample image)

Baldassare Peruzzi

Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi, Florence

San Marco Convent

Commisiones by Cosimo the Elder to Michelozzo

1437

"Descent from the Cross"

Fra Beato Anjelico

1431-1432

San Marco Museum, Florence

"Annunciation"

Fra Beato Anjelico

1433-1434

tempera on wood

Museo Diocesana, Cortona

"Annalena Altarpiece"

Fra Beato Anjelico

1434-1435

tempera on wood

Museo di San Marco, Florence

"Madonna of the Shadows"

Fra Beato Anjelico

1438-1446

San Marco Convent

"Madonna of Humility" (or "Madonna Trivulzio")

Fra Filippo Lippi

1431

Sforzesco, Milan

"Barbadori Panel"

Fra Filippo Lippi

1437

Louvre, Paris

"Tarquinia Madonna"

Fra Filippo Lippi

1437

Palazzo Barberini, Rome

"Madonna and Child with Angels"

Fra Filippo Lippi

1465

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

"The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin"

Jan van Eyck

1435

Louvre, Paris

"Choir with St. Stephan and St. John Stories"

Fra Filippo Lippi

1452

Prato Cathedral

The Dynamic Line

• Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, young Leonardo
• nature is one
• motion, growth, decay are more natural than mathematical relationships

"Hercules and the Hydra"

Pollaiulo

1475

tempera on wood

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

• Botticelli, Filippo Lippi
• abstract values and ideas are the central concern
• subjects express emotional, poetic yearnings

• Ghirlandaio
• scriptural narratives and scenes of saints legends, linked with contemporary Florence
• main personalities and ideal view of Florence become part of the narration

Sassetti Chapel

Ghirlandaio

1485

Santa Trinita, Florence

"Hercules"

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

1470's

bronze

Frick Collection, New York

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo

1446-1456

Florence

"View of Palazzo Medici"

F.L. del Migliore

1684

Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence

"Hercules and Antaeus"

Pollaiuolo

1478

tempera on wood

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

"Giuliano de'Medici"

Verrocchio

1475-1478

terra cotta

National Gallery of Art, Washington

"Lady with Bouquet"

Verrocchio

1478

Bargello, Florence

"The Baptism of Christ"

Verrocchio

1475-1478

oil on wood

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence 

"La Primavera"

Botticelli

1478

tempera on wood

Galleria degli Uffizi

"The Birth of Venus"

Botticelli

1482

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

"The Lamentation"

Botticelli

c. 1495

Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

"The Nativity"

Botticelli

1501

National Gallery, London

"Madonna an Child with an Angel"

Filippo Lippi

1465

"Madonna and Child with an Angel"

Botticelli

1465-1467

"Portrait of Giuliano de'Medici"

Botticelli

1478

National Gallery, Washington

"Mona Lisa"

Leonardo da Vinci

1503-1505

Louvre, Paris

"Portrait of Maddalena Doni"

Raphael

1506

Palazzo Pitti, Florence

"Annunciation"

Leonardo da Vinci

1472-1473

oil on wood

Galleria degli Uffizi

"Landscape"

Leonardo da Vinci

5 August 1473

pen and ink on white paper

Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi, Florence

"Adoration of the Magi"

Leonardo da Vinci

1481

Uffizi, Florence

"Study for the Adoration of the Magi"

Leonardo da Vinci

1481

bown ink in watercolor and metalpoint

Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi

"Virgin of the Rocks"

Leonardo da Vinci

1486

Louvre, Paris

"Virgin of the Rocks"

Leonardo da Vinci

before 1506

National Gallery, London

"Last Supper"

Leonardo da Vinci

1495

Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

"Saint Anne" cartoon

Leonardo da Vinci

before 1503

National Gallery, London

"Battle of Anghiari" (lost)

Leonardo da Vinci

1504-1508

Made for the Sala del Gran Consiglio, Palazzo Vecchio

"Battle of Cascina"

Michelangelo

1504-1508

Commissioned for Sala del Gran Consiglio, Palazzo Vecchio

"Madonna of the Steps"

Michelangelo

1490-1491

Casa Buonarroti, Florence

"Battle of Centaurs"

Michelangelo

1491-1492

Made for Lorenzo the Magnificent

"Battle (with Hercules)"

Michelangelo

1478

Bargello, Florence

"Bacchus"

Michelangelo

1496

Bargello, Florence

"Pieta"

Michelangelo

1497

Saint Peter's, Rome

"Pieta"

German Anonymous

1375-1400

The Cloisters, New York

"Pieta"

German Anonymous

1410

terracotta

Hermitage Collection, St. Petersburg

"David"

Michelangelo

1504

Galleria del'Accademia, Florence

"Tondo Pitti"

Michelangelo

1503

Bargello, Florence

"Tondo Doni"

Michelangelo

1503-1504

Uffizi, Florence

"Madonna Medici"

Luca Signorelli

1490

Uffizi, Florence

San Lorenzo

1519-1529

Florence

New Sacristy

Michelangelo

1519-1524, 1530-1533

San Lorenzo, Florence

"Lorenzo de'Medici Duke of Urbino"

Michelangelo

New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

"Twilight and Dawn"

Michelangelo

New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

"Giuliano de'Medici Duke of Nemours"

Michelangelo

New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

"Night and Day"

Michelangelo

New sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

"Madonna and Child"

Michelangelo

1521

New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

Saints Cosma and Damien

Michelangelo's Workshop

New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence

"Laurentian Library"

Michelangelo

1524-1534

Florence

"Pieta Bandini"

Michelangelo

1530-1557

Opera del Duomo, Florence