1. Brunelleschi’s Dome: Architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi ( ), Duomo, Florence Cathedral ( )
Who could be hard or envious enough to fail to praise Pippo [Filippo] the architect on seeing here such a large structure, rising above the skies, ample to cover with its shadow all the Tuscan people. Since this work seems impossible of execution in our time, if I judge rightly, it was probably unknown and unthought-of among the Ancients.
Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting ( )

2. Ghiberti’s Doors: Sculpture
Lorenzo Ghiberti ( ), Baptistery Doors ( ) & the “Gates of Paradise” ( )
Sacrifice of Isaac, bronze relief (1401)
Adam & Eve, bronze relief ( )

3. Michelangelo’s Frescoes: Painting
Michelangelo Buonarroti ( ), Sistine Chapel Ceiling ( )
Creation of Adam (1510)
Belvedere torso (1st c. B.C., Greek)

4. Michelangelo, Christ the Redeemer (c. 1521)
Apollo Belvedere (Roman copy of Greek original, 5th c. B.C.)
David (1504)

5. Laocoön & His Sons (1st c. AD, Hellenistic Greek)
Sacrifice of Noah (1509)
Ignudo (1509)

6. Last Judgment (1306)
Last Judgment ( )