This document summarizes major developments in Renaissance art from the 14th through 17th centuries, highlighting influential artists such as Giotto, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez. It provides examples of important works produced during this period that demonstrate advances in techniques like linear perspective and realistic human representation.

1. Renaissance Art 14 th Century

2. Seeds of change 13 th c. artist Cimabue 1280 (L) attempted, but could not quite master techniques that his student, Giotto 1310 (R) would.

3. Crucifix Cimabue Giotto

4. 14 th c. artist Duccio, Maesta 1308

5. Adoration of the Magi Giotto Botticelli

6. 15 th Century

7. Masaccio The Holy Trinity , 1428 Madonna and Child

8. Note the accuracy of the perspective evident from the foreground to the background

9. Fra Angelico The Last Judgment, 1432

11. Jan Van Eyck Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, 1434

14. Antonello Da Messina Salvator mundi, 1475

15. Bosch Ship of Fools, ~ 1495

16. Garden of Earthly Delights

19. Hans Memling The Last Judgment

21. Botticelli The Birth of Venus, 1484

22. 16 th Century

23. Leonardo DaVinci Artist, Mathematician, Biologist, Zoologist, Engineer, Inventor, Sculptor,

26. Virgin of the Rocks, 1483

28. Mona Lisa, 1502-19

29. Davinci Raphael

30. The Last Supper, 1498

33. Jacopo Bassano, 1542

34. Tintoretto, 1594

35. Albrecht Durer Madonna and Child, 1505

36. Self Portrait, 1500

37. Adoration of the Magi, 1504

38. 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse, 1497

39. Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece: Crucifixion, 1512

40. Annunciation, Incarnation, Nativity, Resurrection

41. Isenheim Altarpiece: Crucifixion, 1512

43. Albert Altdorfer Alexander’s Victory over Darius at the Battle of Isus, 1529

45. Giorgione The Tempest, 1505

46. Titian Assunta, 1518 King Charles V

47. Michelangelo Buonarroti Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508 – Perhaps the greatest artistic achievement ever.

55. Raphael La Fornarina, 1520

56. Deposition of Christ, 1507

57. School of Athens, 1509-10

58. Madonna in the Meadow, 1506

59. Transfiguration, 1520

60. Holbein the Younger The Ambassadors, 1533

63. Bruegel the Elder The Parable of the Blind, 1568

64. Peasant Wedding, 1568

65. El Greco Adoration of the Shepherds, 1618

67. Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599

68. The Denial of St. Peter, 1610

69. Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1599

70. Peter Paul Rubens Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma, 1603

71. Old Woman with a Basket of Coal, 1618

72. Vallicella Madonna and Saints, and The Fall of Man, 1608

73. Georges De La Tour Saint Joseph the Carpenter, 1638

74. Repenting Magdalene, 1637

75. Diego Velazquez Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656

76. Rembrandt Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’s Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm, 1656

77. Philosopher Reading, 1631

78. Philosopher Meditating, 1631