The High Renaissance in Italy: Leonardo da Vinci and RaphaelRaphael

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

"Self-Portrait, " 1512

Humanism

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

(1550)

Leonardo da Vinci "Vitruvian Man,"

c. 1485-90

Roman writer Vitruvius

De Architectura

Leonardo da Vinci "Embryo in the Womb," c. 1510

Leonardo da Vinci, “Measuring the

Distance from the Sun and the Moon”

Leonardo da Vinci, War Machines

many designed for Lodovico Sforza, despot

Duke of Milan (died 1508)

Leonardo da Vinci, Colossal Bronze Horse for Lodovico Sforza (modern)

Andrea Verrocchio,

"The Baptism of

Christ," c. 1470

Leonardo da Vinci, “Annunciation” 1472-75

sfumato = “smoky haze”

Leonardo da Vinci, "The Last Supper" mural, refectory of Santa

Maria delle Grazie, Milan, c. 1495-98

Andrea Castagno, “Last Supper” refectory of Sant'Apollonia (Florence) 1447-49

Ghirlandaio, “Last Supper” convent refectory of San Marco (Florence) 1480

Leonardo da Vinci, "Mona Lisa,"

c. 1503-1519

La Gioconda

wife of Francesco del Giocondo

Raphael (1483-1520) aka Raffello

Sanzio

Raphael, "Madonna of

the Meadow, "

1505

Raphael, "Madonna della Sedia," 1514

Raphael, "Pope Julius II,"

1511-12

Della Rovere

Raphael, frescoes in Stanza della Segnatura

(Pope’s private library), Rome,

1509-11

Raphael "School of Athens" fresco, Stanza della

Segnatura, Rome, 1509-11