October 27, 2022

Key-works:

Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation, Arena Chapel, Padua, 1305. Fresco.

Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Florence, ca. 1424-27. Fresco.

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for doors of baptistery in Florence, Italy, 1401. Gilded bronze.

Donatello, David, Florence, ca. 1440-1460. Bronze.

Leon Battista Alberti, the Church of Sant’Andrea in Mantua (Italy), 1470.

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, ca. 1495-98. Oil and tempera on Plaster.

Raphael, Philosophy (School of Athens), Vatican Palace, Rome, 1509-1511. Fresco.

Michelangelo, David, Florence, ca. 1501-1504. Marble.

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Vatican, Rome, ca. 1508-12. Fresco. (Know both The Creation of Adam and The Fall of Man.)

Keywords:

Humanism:

atmospheric perspective:

linear perspective (a.k.a. one-point perspective):

chiaroscuro:

engraving:

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