Cimabue 

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints.

1285

Drapery realistic. Gold leaf, Patrons at bottom

Duccio

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints.

More realistic faces, expressions, faces turned to sides. Gold leaf.

Giotto

Madonna and Child Enthroned

1310

More feminine face, child more childlike, saints peering through altar

Giotto 

Lamentation

1305

Blue background (aqua__) very different

Emotion filled

for private viewing

Simone Martini

Annunciation

1333

Gold leaf, feminine figures, 

P. Lorenzetti

The Birth of the Virgin

1342

Strange perspective, triptych 

A. Lorenzetti

Peaceful City 

from Effects of Good Government in the City and Country

1338

Brunelleschi

The Sacrifice of Isaac

part of Gates of Paradise door

1401

Linear perspective

Ghiberti 

The Sacrifice of Isaac

part of The Gates of Paradise door

1401

Donatello 

St. Mark

1411

Very life like folds of drapery

very large statue

Donatello

David

1428

study of realistic human figure

Ghiberti 

Gates of Paradise

1425

East Door to the Florence Baptistery 

Ghiberti 

Isaac and His Sons

1425

Part of Gates of Paradise

Linear and Atmospheric Perspective

Gentille De Fabriano

The Adoration of the Magi

1423

Stacking of onlookers becomes better

Perspective improves

Masaccio 

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

1427

Non descriptive background

Masaccio

Tribute Money

1427

Masaccio

The Holy Trinity

1427

Father, son, holy spirit as you go down the picture

patrons in corner

Saints

Polailalou

Battle of the 10 Nudes

1465

Engraving

All but one are about to die

Ecorche

Botticelli 

Birth of Venus

1482

Based on classic poem

Focus on BEAUTY

billowing...

Mantegna 

Ceiling of the Camera degli Sposi

1474

Very precarious

playful

Juno=peacock

Mantegna 

La Christo Morte

1501

Oddly proportioned

Very emotional

minimal wounds

Jan Van Eyck 

Arnoldfini Double Portrait

1434

Lots of symbolism

Extreme detail

Fashionable to be prego

Campin

The Merode Alterpiece

1425

The Master of Flemale

Strange perspective

Oil paint makes detail availible

Rogier Van Der Wyden

Deposition

1435

Very emotional 

Mary replicating christ's movement

No one front and center

Bosch 

Garden of Earthly Delights

1505

Very strange

Da Vinci

Cartoon of Madonna and Child with St. Anne and St. John

1498

sketching

Chiaroscuro 

Da Vinci

The Last Supper

1498

Dry Fresco

Groups of 3

Da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1503

Sfumato

strange background

Rafael

Baldassare Castiglione

1514

No back ground 

Emphasis on emotion, personality

 Rafael 

Philosophy

1509

Aristotle, Plato, 

Philosophy, Theology, Law, Poetry

Michelangelo

David

1501

Disproportionate

pre Goliath

Michelangelo 

Bound Slave

1513

Hump is disturbing

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel

1508

Pontormo

Decent from Cross

1525

Mannerism

Oddly proportioned

Bronzino

Venus, Cupid, Time and Folly

1546

Strangely twisted

Bellini

Feast of the Gods

1514

Classic poem

Giorgione

The Tempest

1514

Very narrative

Titian 

Pastoral Symphony

1508

Titian

Madonna of the Pesaro Family

1519

Pesaro family in corner

awarding soldier who defeated the Turks

Diagonal lines

Titian 

Venus of Urbino

1538

Fine detail in furniture

subject confronts viewer

Durer 

The Fall of Man

1504

Holy Roman Empire

Symbolism

Engraving

Durer

A Great Piece of Turf

1503

Durer

The Four Apostles

1526

Grunewald

Isenhiem Altarpiece

1510

Made for a Hospital

specialized in skin disease

amputates Christ's arm and leg

 Counter Reformation but BEFORE Martin Luther

Hans Holbein (The Younger)

The French Ambassadors

1533

Skull seen from strange angle at bottom

Worldliness, reminder of death

Breugel (The Elder)

Hunters in the snow

1565

Genre

focus on everyday life

people DOING things

Patterns of trees.