A History of European Art

of this, other artists who saw the work or copies of it were inÀ uenced by it and tried to emulate Leonardo’s genius. Ŷ Leonardo ...

Lecture 21: The High Renaissance—Raphael The High Renaissance—Raphael .................................................. Lecture ...

Raphael employed a triangular composition in illusionistic depth, creating a pyramidal shape that is characteristic of the High ...

Lecture 21: The High Renaissance—Raphael including the actual space of the room in the drama, something that had a precedent in ...

loosely based on one of Michelangelo’s ¿ gures on the Sistine ceiling, which was then being painted next door to the rooms being ...

Lecture 21: The High Renaissance—Raphael Note the disruption of pictorial and emotional balance. Scholars once said that the per ...

Raphael: Baldassare Castiglione, c. 1514–15, oil on canvas, 32 ¼ x 26 ¼” (82 x 67 cm), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Expulsion ...

Lecture 22: The High Renaissance—Michelangelo The High Renaissance—Michelangelo .......................................... Lectu ...

the medium of prints. Some considered Michelangelo’s Pietà blasphemous because there was no support for the scene in the Gospels ...

Lecture 22: The High Renaissance—Michelangelo measuring 16 ½ feet tall without the base. Michelangelo was reworking a block of m ...

“Just as David defended his people and governed them justly, so those who govern this city should act.” Our next example shows t ...

Lecture 22: The High Renaissance—Michelangelo Figures of the prophets and sibyls À ank the main scenes from Genesis. These ¿ gur ...

visible from the À oor of the chapel. It is possible to follow the life force as it moves from the ¿ ngertip through the arm to ...

Lecture 22: The High Renaissance—Michelangelo How is Michelangelo’s Pietà different from other works of the same subject? How d ...

Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art ................................ Lecture 23 Following our concentration on three of th ...

Lecture 23: Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art the surface of the copper plate and wiped off, leaving ink only in the gro ...

Woodcuts preceded engravings as a print medium. The technique is laborious because the design is ¿ rst drawn and then must be cu ...

Lecture 23: Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art reÀ ected light. Jerome is writing, and his halo glows as a natural part o ...

commissioned the painting. The altarpiece was intended for a chapel in a Nuremberg home for elderly and poor men called the Twel ...

Lecture 23: Albrecht Dürer and German Renaissance Art Catholic paintings. The inscriptions at the bottom of the pictures are dir ...