2. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

3. Perspective Perspective Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! Perspective! Perspective! The Trinity Masaccio 1427 What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

4. Perspective

5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate Leonardo da Vinci 1469 The figure as architecture!

6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Chiaroscuro Sfumato

7. The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, 1472 - 1475 The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, 1472 - 1475 Leonardo da Vinci

8. Leonardo, the Artist The Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo da Vinci 1483-1486

9. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4

10. Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

11. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

12. Refractory Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan

13. horizontal vertical Perspective! The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

14. Detail of Jesus The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci 1498 Deterioration

15. A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

16. David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble

17. The Pieta Michelangelo Buonarroti 1499 marble The Popes as Patrons of the Arts

18. The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

19. The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

20. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

21. The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

22. The Sistine Chapel Details The Fall from Grace

25. The Sistine Chapel Details The Last Judgment

26. Perspective!Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael1504

27. Raphael’s Canagiani Madonna, 1507

28. Raphael’s Madonnas (1) Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna

29. Madonna della Sedia Alba Madonna Raphael’s Madonnas (2)

30. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

31. Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

32. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

33. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434

34. Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife (details)

35. Quentin Massys (1465-1530) Belonged to the humanist circle in Antwerp that included Erasmus. Influenced by da Vinci. Thomas More called him “the renovator of the old art.” The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530 

36. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

39. Lucas Cranach the Elder Old Man with a Young Woman Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man

40. Albrecht D ü rer (1471-1528) The greatest of German artists. A scholar as well as an artist. His patron was the Emperor Maximilian I. Also a scientist / Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and human proportions. Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits.   Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.

41. Durer – The Triumphal Arch, 1515- 1517

42. The Triumphal Arch, details

44. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) A pessimistic view of human nature. Had a wild and lurid imagination. / Fanciful monsters & apparitions. Untouched by the values of the Italian Quattrocento, like mathematical perspective. / His figures are flat. / Perspective is ignored. More a landscape painter than a portraitist. Philip II of Spain was an admirer of his work.

45. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights 1500

46. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights (details) 1500

47. Bruegel’s, Tower of Babel, 1563

48. Bruegel’s, Mad Meg, 1562

49. Bruegel’s, Winter Scene, 1565