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Title: Leonardo


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Know Your ItalianHigh Renaissance Artists
Leonardo Michelangelo Bramante Tintoretto Pontor
mo
Palladio Raphael Titian
Mannerist Artists
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Leonardo da Vinci
  • Leonardo was the quintessential Renaissance
    Man, studying all types of subjects. He was an
    Artist, Sculptor, Architect, Scientist, Engineer
    and Inventor.
  • Worked as an apprentice to Verrocchio

Self-Portrait drawing, c1512.
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Triangular Composition
Leonardo Da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks 1485.
Oil on wood (transferred to canvas), approx. 63
x 37. Louvre Paris.
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Excerpts from da Vincis Notebook
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Leonardo Da Vinci. Last Supper ca. 1495-1498.
Fresco.
Despite its ruined state and its restorations,
this piece is by far the most impressive of
Leonardos works. Christ and his 12 disciples are
seated at a long table set parallel to the
picture plan in a simple, spacious room. Leonardo
amplified the paintings highly dramatic action
by placing the group in an austere setting.
Christ appears isolated from the disciples,
framed by the window behind him. It serves as a
halo. The artist took people out of his real
life and used them as figures for his painting,
but had problems with Judas because he couldnt
find a significant figure for him. When he did
finally paint him, he portrayed him with his hand
over a dish because of Christs foretelling that
he that dippeth his hand with me into the dish,
he shall betray me refering to Judas betrayal.
He is also leaning back from Christ and in a
shadow. Christ was the last to be painted.
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Leonardo Da Vinci. Last Supper ca. 1495-1498.
Fresco.
Divine THREEs Trinity Theological
Virtues Earthly FOURs Elements Cardinal
Virtues
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Other Last Supper renditions
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Other Last Supper renditions
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Other Last Supper renditions
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Other Last Supper renditions
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Other Last Supper renditions
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Worlds most famous portrait. Leonardo took three
years to finish the portrait and it is said to be
of Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, the wife of
a wealthy Florentine. It was his favorite piece
so much so that Leonardo kept it for years.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa ca. 1503-1505.
Oil on wood, approx 26 x 19. Louvre, Paris.
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Portrait of Mona Lisa Giaconda OR Self-Portrait
of da Vinci?
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Other Important works by da Vinci
Portrait of Ginerva Benci, Oil on Wood, 1474-76.
Virgin of the Rocks, 1485. Oil on wood..
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Michelangelo, David 1501-1504.
In 1501, the city of Florence asked Michelangelo
to work a great block of marble, called The
Giant, left over from an earlier aborted
mission. From this stone, David was sculpted,
the defiant hero of the Florentine republic and,
in so doing, assured his reputation then and now
as an extraordinary talent. Davids formal
references to classical antiquity appealed to
Julius II, who associated himself with humanists
and with Roman emperors. Thus, this sculpture and
the fame that accrued to Michelangelo on its
completion called the artist to the popes
attention, leading to major papal
commissions. The artist chose to depict David
not after victory, but turning his head to his
left, sternly watchful of the approaching foe.
His whole muscular body, as well as his face, is
tense with gathering power.
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Michelangelo, David 1501-1504.
Michelangelo worked for the Medici family in
Florence Claimed to have taught himself to carve
marble by studying the Medici collection of
classical statues
Michelangelo, David Galleria dellAcademia,
Florence, Italy 1501-1504
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Michelangelo, David 1501-1504.
Its a larger than life sculpture, the height of
David reaches over 13 feet tall. Its also
sculpted in perspective (top heavy), so if
viewed from below the figure looks proportional.
Contrapposto or a weight shift is also apparent
in this sculpture.
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Exterior of Sistene Chapel
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Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
1508-12
Pope Julius II gave the reluctant Michelangelo
the commission to paint the ceiling of the
Sistene Chapel. Michelangelo faced enormous
difficulties relative inexperience in fresco
technique, large dimensions, height above
pavement, and perspective. Depicting the most
august themes of all, the Creation, Fall, and
Redemption of humanity, Michelangelo spread a
colossal decorative theme with over 300
figures. A long sequence of narrative panels
describing the creation, as recorded in the
biblical book Genesis, runs along the crown of
the vault. The hebrew prophets who foretold the
coming of Christ appear seated in large thrones
on both sides of the central row.
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Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Rome, 1508-1512
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Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Rome, 1508-1512
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Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Rome, 1508-1512
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MichelangeloCeiling of the Sistine Chapel Rome,
Italy 1508-1512
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MichelangeloThe Last JudgmentFresco Sistine
Chapel, Italy1541.
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When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio
da Cesena said "it was mostly disgraceful that in
so sacred a place there should have been depicted
all those nude figures, exposing themselves so
shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal
chapel but rather for the public baths and
taverns, Michelangelo worked da Cesena's
semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the
underworld. It is said that when he complained to
the Pope, the pontiff responded that his
jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the
portrait would have to remain.
Biago da Cesena(the Popes Master of Ceremonies)
painted as Minos, Ruler of Hell
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Tomb of Pope Julius II
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Michelangelo, Moses 1513-1515
Commissioned by Pope Julius II as part of his
immense tomb, (which was never completed as
planned Julius used more funds to the building
of St. Peters) Horns on head were traditionally
meant to be divine, but scripture may have meant
that Moses was radiant, not horned. Inspired
by Greek Hellenistic sculpture Laocoon Sons
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Michelangelo, Pietà, c1500, Marble, 58.5.
A Pietà is the Virgin Mary holding and mourning
dead Christ Italian for compassion Popular in
Northern Europe, but rare in Italy Made by
Michelangelo when he was 24 Only major work that
has Michelangelos signature on it (on the strap
across her chest)
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Rogier Van Der Weyden, Pieta, 1450, Oil on Panel.
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Latin for Michelangelo Buonarroti Made This
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The marble sculpture is encased in bullet-proof
glass inside St. Peters in Rome.
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An American Pietà
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Shortly after Bramante left Milan for Rome, he
received a commission fro King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella of Spain to build a small shrine
to mark the site of St. Peters crucifixion.
Bramante chose to design a circular temple. The
Tempietto (or little temple) captures Classical
Roman ideals a circular cella and simple
mathematical ratios.
Bramante, Tempietto, 1505. HIGH ITALIAN
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Layout of Bramantes Tempietto
Sixteen Doric columns surround the cella. The
distance between the columns is four times their
diameter.
Bramante, Tempietto, 1505. HIGH ITALIAN
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Sixteen Doric columns surround the cella. The
distance between the columns is four times their
diameter.
Bramante, Tempietto, 1505. HIGH ITALIAN
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A Brief History ofSt. Peters in Rome
1506 1514 1546
Bramante designs a Greek-Cross plan for a new St.
Peters to replace the old church.
Bramante dies, and the building of the church is
put on hold for over 30 years.
Michelangelo becomes Chief Architect for the
building of St. Peters built up to the dome.
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1630 Painting of St. Peters
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St. Peters at Night
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Vatican guards at St. Peters are always Swiss
and still wear the traditional uniforms
originally designed by Michelangelo!
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Palladio, Villa Rotunda, 1566, HIGH ITALIAN
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From PalladiosFour Books of Architecture
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