(High School Humanities - an overview of the art of the Renaissance, based on Rick Steves' "Europe 101")

1. The Renaissance ~ 1400-1600

11. Cimabue, Santa Trinita Madonna c. 1280

12. Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna 1310

13. Raphael, La Belle Jardiniere 1507

14. Uccello, Battle of San Romano

15. da Vinci, Madonna and Saint Anne

17. da Vinci, The Last Supper , 1498

18. Da Vinci, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini , wife of Francesco del Giocondo (“Mona Lisa”) 1503-1506

20. Da Vinci, Vitruvian Man 1487

23. Botticelli, Primavera, 1482

25. Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1486

26. Venus de’ Medici (copy of Greek statue) Venus de Milo

27. Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1486

29. Raphael, The School of Athens, 1512

30. Raphael, The Wedding of the Virgin, 1504

31. Kehinde Wiley, Passing/Posing (The Wedding of the Virgin) 2005

32. Raphael, The Madonna of the Meadow, 1506

35. Michelangelo, David , 1504

36. Donatello, David , c. 1440

40. Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel , 1508-1512

50. Michelangelo, Pieta, 1499

51. 1550 1564

52. Michelangelo, Pieta, 1499

54. Is Mary too young? Historically, she was around 45-50 years old when Jesus died. Michelangelo said he made her youthful deliberately because the effects of time could not mar the virginal features of this, the most blessed of women. He also said that he was thinking of his own mother's face, he was only five when she died: the mother's face is a symbol of eternal youth.

55. It is the only piece of art he ever signed: MICHAELA[N]GELUS BONAROTUS FLORENTIN[US] FACIEBA[T] (Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, made this)

56. He was 24 years old when he carved it.