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The High Renaissance - UNFINISHED
Selected images from Ch. 22 of Gardner's 'Art Through the Ages' (13th Ed.), and other relevant images.
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12th Grade
02/09/2011

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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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