. Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508-12   Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

Dürer, Knight, Death, and the Devil, 1503

·      engraving

Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504

Dürer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1497

·      woodcut

·      War, famine, plague, death

Dürer, Four Apostles 1526

·      oil on panel

. Dürer, Self-Portrait, 1500

·      "I Albrecht Durer of Nuremberg painted myself thus, with undying colors, at the age of twenty-eight years"

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508-12  

    Creation of Adam

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, 1508-12

Separation of Light and Dark

Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck, 1534-40

Raphael, School of Athens, 1508-1512

6. Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538, 

7. Titian, Rape of Europa, 1559-62

Titian, Danae, 1554

Van Meckenem, Couple Seated on a Bed, late 1490’s

Bernini, Colonnade of St. Peter’s Basilica, 1656-67