A History of European Art

Sandro Botticelli: The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478/1482, tempera and oil on panel, 26 ¾ x 40 3/16” (68 x 102 cm), National Ga ...

Lecture 17: Sandro Botticelli Consider Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Calumny of Apelles, which had never before been pain ...

Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini Lecture 18 In this lecture, we move from Tuscany to the north of Italy—speci¿ cally, to the ...

Lecture 18: Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini even unemotional (like those of Piero della Francesca), while at other times, t ...

areas to visit or settle at their court. Mantegna arrived when he was about 30 and remained for the rest of his life. His princi ...

Lecture 18: Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini On this same wall, to the right of the door, is a fresco that depicts the Arriv ...

Mantegna has painted this small woman naturalistically, which is part of the Humanism, as well as the humanity, of the artist. T ...

Lecture 18: Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini Few paintings of the Renaissance period convey as powerful a sensation of a lan ...

Batzner, Mantegna (Masters of Italian Art Series). Christiansen, Andrea Mantegna. Humfrey, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Giova ...

Lecture 19: High Renaissance Painting in Venice High Renaissance Painting in Venice ............................................ ...

action. The republic survived with most of its territories intact and unharmed, although its ¿ nancial situation was weakened. T ...

Lecture 19: High Renaissance Painting in Venice and it was principally by Venetian painters that landscape art was introduced fr ...

Gloriosa dei Frari, commonly called the Frari, the venerable Franciscan church in Venice. In our example, we are looking through ...

Lecture 19: High Renaissance Painting in Venice VIII. Titian’s Rape of Europa (c. 1562) was painted for Philip II of Spain, who ...

Cole, Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450–1590. Humphrey, Painting in Renaissance Venice. How is landscape exploited in the pain ...

Lecture 20: The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci ................................... Le ...

of San Francesco Grande. The commission came from the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, and Leonardo was to paint the ...

Lecture 20: The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci rapidly. The deepest darks in Leonardo’s paintings are profound. This led his ...

smiling secretly ... not in an arti¿ cial manner, but as though unconsciously ... and accompanied by ... certain movements of th ...

Lecture 20: The High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci Last Supper (c. 1480) in the refectory of the church of the Ognissanti in Flo ...