High Renaissance Art Gallery Student Name Columbia Southern University 9/20/2015
(Botticelli, ca. 1482)
High Renaissance Art: Introduction
I want to know why the human body was so inspirational to these artists.
I am interested in learning why this art period is called the rebirth of art .
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High Renaissance Art: Introduction
Renaissance Art was done in Europe from the late 1400s to1600.
Separated into three main categories: Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Late Renaissance.
Marked by “logical thought and the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement called humanism” (Frank, 2014, p. 279).
Artists studied anatomy and “applied geometry to the logical construction of implied space through linear perspective” (Frank, 2014, p. 281).
High Renaissance was peak of Italian art from 1490 to 1530 (Frank, 2014).
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La Primavera Sandro Botticelli 1482 Tempera on panel
(Botticelli, ca. 1482)
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Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci 1503-1506 Oil on wood
(Da Vinci, ca. 1503)
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The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci 1495 Paint on plaster
(Da Vinci, ca. 1495)
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Adam and Eve Albrecht Dürer 1504 Engraving
(Dürer, 1504)
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Virgin and Child before an Archway Albrecht Dürer 1495 Oil on panel
(Dürer, ca. 1495)
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References
Botticelli, S. (ca. 1482). Birth of Venus [Tempera on canvas]. Retrieved from http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of- venus-by-sandro-botticelli/
Botticelli, S. (ca. 1482). Primavera [Tempera on panel]. Retrieved from http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/la-primavera- allegory-of-spring-by-sandro-botticelli/
Da Vinci, L. (ca. 1495). The last supper [Oil on canvas]. Retrieved from http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo4.html#note
Da Vinci, L. (ca. 1503). Mona Lisa [Oil on wood]. Retrieved from http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/mona-lisa- portrait-lisa-gherardini-wife-francesco-del-giocondo
Dürer, A. (ca. 1495). Virgin and child before an archway [Oil on panel]. Retrieved from http://www.wga.hu/html_m/d/durer/1/01/07virgin.html
Dürer, A. (1504). Adam and Eve [Engraving]. Retrieved from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/19.73.1
Frank, P. (2014). Prebles’ Artforms: An introduction to the visual arts (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
