The document summarizes major developments in Renaissance art in Italy during the 15th and 16th centuries. In the 15th century (Quattrocento), important sculptors included Donatello. Major painters were Masaccio, Mantegna, Pierro della Francesca, and Botticelli. Brunelleschi made important contributions to architecture. In the 16th century (Cinquecento), Michelangelo was a seminal sculptor while Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian excelled at painting. Architecture saw innovations from Bramante, Michelangelo and Palladio.

1. Renaissance

2. Quattrocento
1400-1499
(15th century)
Sculpture
Donatello
Painting
Masaccio, Mantegna, Pierro della Francesca,
Botticelli.
Architecture
Brunelleschi

3. San Giorgio by Donatello David by Donatello

4. The Tribute Money, by Masaccio

5. The Lamentation over the Death Christ by Mantegna

6. The Brera Madonna, Pierro
della Francesca

7. The Birth of Venus by Botticelli

8. Brunelleschi’s Dome – Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower

9. CinqueCento
1500-1599
(16th century)
Sculpture
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Painting
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and
Titian.
Architecture
Bramante, Michelangelo and Palladio.

10. David by Michelangelo

11. Michelangelo’s Pietà, St Peter’s Basilica, (1498-99)

12. Mona Lisa and The Vitruvian man
by Leonardo da Vinci.

13. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo (1510), located in the Sistine Chapel

14. The Lybian Sybil, by
Michelangelo.
Located in the
Sistine Chapel

15. The Wedding of the Virgin,
by Raphael

16. The School of Athens, by Raphael. 1511

17. The Fire in the Borgo, by Raphael, 1514

18. Danae, by Titian, 1553

19. Isabella of Portugal,
By Titian. 1539

20. San Pietro in Montorio,
by Bramante, 1502

21. The Dome of
Saint Peter’s
Basilica by
Michelangelo.

22. Villa Rotonda, by Palladio. Veneto, Italy.