A brief overview of sixteenth-century art in Italy with an emphasis on Florence, Venice, and Mannerism.

1. th Century Italian
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Art
T, R, 12PM-1:20PM
Professor Paige Prater

2. “High Renaissance”
• Rome
• Fuses REAL and IDEAL
• Vs. Mannerism

3. Three Key Artists
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Leonardo da Vinci

4. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Mini-Bio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrV91kOn-ao

5. Leonardo da
Vinci - The
Virgin of the
Rocks –c. 1485
• Oil on wood panel, 6’ 6” x 4’.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.

6. Leonardo da Vinci – The Last Supper – 1495-1498
• Refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan,
Italy. Tempera and oil on plaster. 15’ 2” x 28’ 10”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6_wTrkd70

7. Leonardo da
Vinci –
Mona Lisa –
c. 1503-1506
• Oil on wood panel, 30 ¼” x 21”.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.
• http://smarthistory.khanacade
my.org/leonardo-monalisa.html

8. Leonardo da Vinci – Vitruvian
Man, c. 1490
• Ink, 13 ½” x 9 5/8” . Galleria dell’ Accademia, Venice.

9. Raphael – The
Small Cowper
Madonna –
c. 1505
• Oil on wood panel, 23 3/8”
x 17 3/8”. National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.

10. Raphael – Agnelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi, c. 1506
• Oil on wood panel, each 24 ½” x 17 ¼” . Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

11. Raphael – The School of Athens – c. 1510-1511
• Fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome. 19’ x 27’.

12. Michelangelo – Pietà – c. 1500
• Marble, height 5’ 8 ½”. St. Peter’s, Vatican, Rome.

13. Michelangelo
– David –
c. 1501-1504.
• Marble, height 17’ without pedestal. Galleria dell’Accadmia, Florence.

14. Michelangelo – Interior, Sistine Chapel
• Built 1475-1481
• Ceiling painted 1508-1512; end wall, 1536-1541. 45’ x 128’
ceiling. Vatican, Rome.
• http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.html

15. • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561205/Itsmarshmallow-Michelangelo-Artist-creates-life-size-replica-SistineChapel-ceiling-using-10-000-marshmallows.html

16. Michelangelo – The Creation of Adam

17. http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=vX7iuSkz3qc
Michelangelo – Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici with
Allegorical Figures of Night and Day, 1519-1534.
• Marble, height of seated figure approx., 5’ 10”
• New Sacristy of Church of San Lorenzo (vs. Old Sacristy)

18. Michelangelo –
The Last
Judgment, 15361541. Fresco, 48’ x 44’.

19. Michelangelo – St. Peter’s Basilica

20. Venice
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Giorgione
Titian
Veronese
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore
• Tintoretto

21. Georgione – The Tempest, c. 1506
• Oil on canvas, 32” x 28
¾”. Galleria dell’
Accademia, Venice.
• http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=LFA_qmGuY
2A

22. Titian –
Isabella D’Este
-1534-1536
• Oil on canvas, 40 1/8” x 25
3/16”. Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna

23. Veronese – Feast in the House of Levi, 1573
• Oil on canvas. 18’ 3” x 42’. From the refectory of the monastery of SS.
Giovanni e Paolo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gr2007Y8c&list=PLhgXkvFni0eJMx93GWncpmkezj58TplfE

24. Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Plan: 1565
Construction: 1565-1580
Façade: 1597-1610
Campanile 1791.

25. Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
• Tintoretto’s Last Supper (1592-1594) hangs to left of altar. Oil on canvas, 12’ x
18’8”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhsjS5CtCTE&list=PLpCSWZaDzB6Zvjwjo4H8xZ54MQCNERV1n

26. Mannerism
• Maniera (Italian for “style”)
• Anti-Classical
• Valued artificiality, grace and elegance vs. reality, balance, and
order
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Bronzino
Pontormo
Sofonisba Anguissola
Giambologna
Cellini

27. Bronzino –
Allegory with
Venus and
Cupid – Mid
1540s
• Oil on panel, 57 ½’ x 46”.
National Gallery, London.
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6w2E8G0sEPc

28. PontormoDeposition
– 15251528
• Florence, altarpiece in
Capponi Chapel, church of
Sant Felicità. Oil and
tempera on wood panel,
10’ 3” x 6’ 4”.
• Selfie!
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ABhqENOxSrU

29. Sofonisba
AnguissolaSelf-Portrait –
c. 1552
• Oil on parchment on cardboard, 3 ¼” x 2 ½”. Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston.

30. Giambologna
– The Capture
of a Sabine
Woman –
1581-1582
• Marble, height 13’ 6”. Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.

31. Benvenuto Cellini – Saltcellar of
King Francis I of France - 1540-1543
• Gold and enamel, 10 ½” x 13 1/8” . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

32. Counter-Reformation
• The Council of Trent: meets three times between 1545-1563
• Affirmation of doctrine
• Reformation of practice
• The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and other orders
• The revival of spirituality
• Tom Richey sums it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcveOq9ce1c