The High Renaissance I
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, late 17th century
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, oil on wood, ca. 1503-1505
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni ( Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni (?), oil and tempera on wood, 1488
If art could depict character and soul, no painting on earth would be more beautiful.
Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani), ca. 1489-1490
Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation, ca. 1473
Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1445
SFUMATO
Leonardo da Vinci, diagram from the Treatise on Painting, ca. 1506 (Rome, Vatican Library, Codex Urbinas 1270, f. 218r)
Jacopo del Conte, Portrait of Michelangelo, ca. 1540
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Bacchus, marble, 1496-1498 (height: 6’ 7½’’)
Satyr
Maerten van Heemskerck, Jacopo Galli’s Garden in Rome, ca. 1532-1535
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pietà, marble, St Peter’s, Rome, ca. 1498-1500 (height: 5’ 8½’’)
Röttgen Pietà, painted wood, ca. 1300-1325