Renaissance Art: Some images
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The Renaissance in Florence: Republican and Medici (15th c.)
 


Palazzo della Signoria (municipal government headquarters), Florence
 
 


Donatello, David, c. 1430, Florence


Duomo (Cathedral), Florence; dome by Filippo Brunelleschi.  A competition for design of the dome began in 1418; Brunelleschi's design won, and construction began in 1420.  It was finished by 1436.

Villa Careggi.  Florence tourist board description: "The villa originally belonged to the Lippi family and was modified around the mid-fifteenth century by Michelozzo for Cosimo the Elder; who chosed it as his favorite residence. Despite Michelozzo's Renaissance modifications (particularly fine is the small irregular inner court), the  building still maintains its original aspect of fortress in the imposing crenellated tower. It was in this villa, seat of'the famous Florentine Platonic Academy, that the illustrious philosophers (Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino) and artists (Donatello, Brunelleschi, Alberti) used to meet. And it was here that Cosimo the Elder died in 1464 and Lorenzo the Magnificent in 1492."
 
  primavera

  Sandro Botticelli, "Primavera," 1477-78

Pallas and the Centaur

Sandro Botticelli, "Pallas and Centaur," 1482

Birth of Venus

  Sandro Botticelli, "Birth of Venus," c. 1485


Sandro Botticelli, "Adoration of the Magi," 1470-75
 

The Renaissance outside Florence

Andrea Mantegna, "Court of Mantua" (Gonzaga family), 1471-74


Piero della Francesca, Double portrait of Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro, the Duchess and Duke of Urbino, 1465-66

The High Renaissance: Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo
(largely in Rome)
 
 


Michelangelo, "Creation of Adam," Sistine Chapel (Vatican, Rome) 1510






  Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-05
 


Leonardo da Vinci, sketch of larynx and leg, c. 1510


Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1492


Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna, Child, and St. Anne, 1510


Raphael Sanzio, Pope Julius II, 1512.

Raphael Sanzio, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giuliano de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi, 1518-1519.  Pope Leo X was himself a Medici, brother of the prince to whom Machiavelli dedicated his famous work.  Leo X was a great patron of Raphael, who frescoed several halls in the Vatican palace (such as that below).

Raphael Sanzio, School of Athens, 1509-1510, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican (Rome)
For an excellent guided tour through this image and its various identifiable figures, click here
 


Michelangelo Buonarrotti, Slave (awakening), 1519-36.  For tomb of Pope Julius II