Artists of the High Renaissance

Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps the best artist for understanding how art of the "High" Renaissance was different from art that had been made shortly before and how this reflects the way human understanding and relationship to the natural worlds was changing significantly. Use these links to try to understand what that means.

• Article on Leonardo De Vinci and his teacher Andrea del Verrocchio: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/beginners-guide-high-ren/a/toward-the-high-renaissance-an-introduction
• Article, “Leonardo and his drawings”: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/leonardo-da-vinci/a/leonardo-and-his-drawings

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  Article on Leonardo De Vinci: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/leon/hd_leon.htm

• Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/leonardo-da-vinci-the-virgin-of-the-rocks, by clicking the button that makes the image full screen allows you to zoom in close to see the details.
• 7 minute video on Leonardo’s Last Supper: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/leonardo-da-vinci/v/leonardo-da-vinci-last-supper-1495-98
• Louvre Feature: A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa (includes the two links below): http://focus.louvre.fr/en/mona-lisa
  • High res image of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: http://focus.louvre.fr/en/mona-lisa/observe/mona-lisa-sitting-her-loggia
  • 2 minute video on Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: http://focus.louvre.fr/en/mona-lisa/understand/most-famous-painting-world
    

    

• Website devoted to Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man: http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/welcome.html

More than 500 years later, the most famous and recognizable names in art are still from the Italian High Renaissance. Michelangelo Buonarroti is likely the most famous of them all. Follow the links below to understand better his life and works.

• 5 minute video, Michelangelo Biography from Goodbye-Art Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ON7F4Wn4k&list=PLXVuKomahjzdS_Q4ZhJmpd6V6qZSKVmp7&index=16
• 4 minute video on Michelangelo’s Pieta: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/michelangelo/v/michelangelo-piet-1498-1500
• 6 minute video on Michelangelo’s David: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/michelangelo/v/michelangelo-david-marble-1501-04-galleria-dell-accademia-florence
• 6 minute video on the conservation of a drawing by Michelangelo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-7BKDfaZpg
• Check out this diagram for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, then spend some time with the link after it – if flash-player works on your computer: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sistine_Chapel_ceiling_diagram.svg#/media/File:Sistine_Chapel_ceiling_diagram.svg
• link to a website that is a virtual reproduction of the interior of the Sistine Chapel (flash-player needs to be current to work): http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/index_sistina_en.htm

Raphael

• Essay on Raphael and his Alba Madonna: https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/raphael-the-alba-madonna.html#about-the-artist
• Madonna in the Meadow, image, short article, and a 2 minute audio description: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/madonna-in-the-meadow/1wH8Q5iTWK8G3Q
• Images of work: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/entity/m0c43g
• 18 minute video: Raphael’s Fresco of the School of Athens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrG6jfBzEU
• 5 minute video: The School of Athens, Raphael | Art Analysis (Video Essay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyhVZ89GdGw

Venice in the 1500’s

Giorgione

• 6 minute video, Giorgione, The Tempest: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/late-renaissance-venice/v/giorgione-the-tempest

Titian

• Link to short videos on Titian, watch the two that are labeled “Paintings decoded”: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-playlist
• 4 minute video, Titian, Venus of Urbino: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/late-renaissance-venice/v/titian-venus-of-urbino-1538