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  Introduction to the High Renaissance in Italy
"High Renaissance" as stylistic notion and historiographic concept (readings from Vasari to Wölfflin). Circa 1500: new concepts of art, the artist, and the creative process (Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione). Geography, political and artistic: Rome, Florence, Venice.
     
    LEONARDO DA VINCI, Adoration of the Magi, compare to Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi
    Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, compare to Antonio Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Woman; Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Ginevra da Benci, compare to Verrocchio, Bust of a Woman with a Flower; Leonardo da Vinci, Drawing of Hands; Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani
       
    LEONARDO DA VINCI, drawings: Vitruvian Man, Anatomical Studies
    Compare to Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of Nude Men (engraving), Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
       
    GIORGIONE, Tempesta, compare to Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis
     
    MICHELANGELO, David, compare to Dontaello, David, Verrocchio, David
     
    BRAMANTE, The Tempietto (Rome), compare to Giuliano da Sangallo, S. Maria delle Carceri (Prato), and Leonardo da Vinci, Drawings of Centrally Planned Churches
       
    RAPHAEL
    Galatea, compared to Botticelli, Birth of Venus, The Medici Venus, The Capitoline Venus; The Three Graces, compare to Botticelli, The Three Graces, Agostino di Duccio, Relief Scultpures from the Tempio Malatestiano (Rimini); Raphael, The Fire in the Borgo (Vatican), compare to Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of St. John the Baptist, (S. Maria Novella, Florence)
     
    RENAISSANCE ARCHAEOLOGY and Collections of Antiquities: Drawings by Gentile da Fabriano, Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini; Ancient Sculptures Admired in the Reniassance including the Apollo Belvedere, the Torso Belvedere and the Laocoon, A Selection of Sarcophagi
     
  Preparations in Milan: Leonardo da Vinci
    The court of Lodovico Sforza. Leonardo da Vinci: equestrian monument, Virgin of the Rocks, Last Supper; architectural studies. Bramante: S. Maria presso S. Satiro, S. Maria delle Grazie.
     
  Republican Florence, 1494-1512
The expulsion of the Medici and the establishment of the republic; the role of Savonarola and the leadership of Piero Soderini. Michelangelo's David and the heroic nude. The Sala del Gran Consiglio: battle murals by Leonardo and Michelangelo, altarpiece by Fra Bartolommeo. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael: Madonna and Child motif as field of invention.
    Heroic Nudes
   

Michelangelo, David, originally in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Bacchus, Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

     
    The Decoration of the Sala del Gran Consiglio, | Palazzo della Signoria, Florence
    Leonardo da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari
    Michelangelo, The Battle of Cascina
    Fra Bartolommeo, The St. Anne Altarpiece
     
    The Theme of the Madonna and Child (I)
    Michelangelo, Madonna of the Stairs, Doni Holy Family, Taddei Tondo, Pitti Tondo, The Bruges Madonna
    Focus on The Bruges Madonna
       
    The Theme of the Madonna and Child (II)
    Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John the Baptist
     
    Raphael, The Florentine Period, ca. 1504-1508
    The Theme of the Madonna and Child, The Entombment, Portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Strozzi
     
  Julian Rome
The renewal of Rome and the ambitions of Pope Julius II. Bramante: the new St. Peter's and the Vatican Belvedere. Michelangelo: the tomb of Julius II and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Raphael in the Vatican: the Stanza della Segnatura and the Stanza d'Eliodoro. Agostino Chigi's villa suburbana: the Farnesina. The Laocoön and the new archaeology.
    Donato Bramante, New St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Palace Belvedere
     
     
    Michelangelo, The Tomb of Pope Julius II
     
     
    Michelangelo, The Sistine Ceiling
    The Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo, The Fifteenth Century Frescoes on the Side Walls
    View the Side Wall of the Sistine Chapel with the Life of Moses
    View the Side Wall of the Sistine Chapel with the Life of Christ
     
    The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
    The Sistine Chapel: Narrative Scenes (first half)
    The Sistine Chapel: Narrative Scenes (second half)
    The Sistine Chapel: Prophets and Sybils
    The Sistine Chapel: Spandrels
    The Sistine Chapel: Ignudi
    The Sistine Chapel: Ancestors of Christ
     
     
    Raphael | Diagrams of the Vatican Palace Stanze frescoed by Raphael
    The Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, Vatican Palace (full views of frescoes)
The Stanza della Segnatura, Papal Apartments, Vatican Palace (details)
The Stanza d'Eliodoro, Papal Apartments, Vatican Palace
The Stanza dell'Incendio, Papal Apartments, Vatican Palace
The Vatican Loggia
    The Vatican Apartments before Raphael, including Pinturricchio's Decorations of the Borgia Apartments
       
    Video Excerpts
      Raphael I, The Stanza della Segnatura, The Disputa (I), [view excerpt, 10.9MB]
      Raphael I, The Stanza della Segnatura, The Disputa (II), [view excerpt, 8.2MB]
      Raphael II, The Stanza della Segnatura, The School of Athens
       
      Raphael, The Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel
       
       
    Raphael, Other Works in Rome
    Chapels for the Chigi Family in S. Maria del Popolo and S. Maria della Pace
The Villa Farnesina
     
     
  Courtier Culture
    Baldesar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier and new definitions of culture; the courtier as connoisseur and the articulation of style. Portraiture and self-fashioning: Raphael, Giorgione, Titian.
     
     
  Print Culture
Invenzione, disegno, and engraving: Raphael and Marcantonio Raimondi. Printing in Venice: Titian (et al.) and the monumental woodcut. The significance of Dürer.
    Raphael and Marcantonio Raimondi
    Massacre of the Innocents, Lucretia, Quos ego
     
    Titian, The Woordcut and Printing in Venice
    The Triumph of Christ, Sacrifice of Abraham, The Crossing of the Red Sea, St. Jerome
     
    Jacopo de'Barbari, Bird's Eye View of Venice, 1500
     
     
     
  Venice
Doge Leonardo Loredan and the war of the League of Cambrai. The Fondaco dei Tedeschi: Giorgione and Titian. Giorgione: subjectivity and the pastoral landscape. Titian and the monumental altarpiece.
     
     
  The Culture of the Courts
Mantua: the studiolo of Isabella d'Este--Mantegna, Perugino, Costa Ferrara: the camerino of Alfonso d'Este--Giovanni Bellini, Fra Bartolommeo, Raphael, Titian, Dosso Dossi...and Michelangelo. Ekphrasis, classical narrative, and the pictorial revival of antiquity.
    Mantua, The Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
    Paintings by Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo Costa
     
    Ferrara, The Studiolo of Alfonso d'Este
    Paintings by Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Dosso Dossi
     
     
  Post-classicism
The return of the Medici. Rome: Pope Leo X. Raphael: the Stanza d'Eliodoro, the Stanza dell'Incendio, the Stanza di Costantino; tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel. Florence: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo--the Medici Chapel. The last republic: Pontormo--Capponi Chapel, St. Anne altarpiece The Sack of Rome (1527): artistic diaspora and stylistic diffusion. The heirs of Raphael: Giulio Romano, Parmigianino. . .
    Michelangelo, The Project for the Facade of San Lorenzo
The New Sacristy with Tombs of the Medici Family, San Lorenzo
Jacopo Pontormo, The Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita
     
     
     
     

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