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Italian Renaissance - Early

• Architects
  • Leone Battista Alberti
    • Sant'Andrea
      • Façade (1)
      • Façade (2)
      • Detail of nave arch
      • Detail of nave wall
      • Internal view: Nave
      • Internal view: Dome
    • Santa Maria Novella
      • Floorplan and description
      • Façade
      • Façade pediment
      • Entrance
      • Detail of tympanum over entrance
    • Illustration of Alberti's Veil
  • Filippo Brunelleschi
    • Abraham's sacrifice (losing version)
    • Dome of Florence Cathedral
      • Plan of dome [from Stokstad text]
    • Foundling Hospital
    • San Lorenzo
    • Pazzi Chapel
    • San Spirito
  
  
• Lorenzo Ghiberti
  • Abraham's sacrifice (winning version)
  • North doors of Florence baptistry
  • Eastern doors of Florence baptistry [Gates of Paradise]
  
  
• Donatello
  • St. George [detail]
  • David (1430) [detail of upper body]
  • St. Mary Magdalene [detail]
  • Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata
  
  
• Masaccio
  • Holy Trinity
  • Tribute Money
  • Expulsion from Paradise
  
  
• Andrea Mantegna
  • St. James on the way to his execution
  • Dead Christ
  
  
• Sandro Botticelli
  • Birth of Venus
  • La Primavera (Spring)
  • Calumny
  
  
• Piero della Francesca
  • Duke and Duchess of Urbino
  • Resurrection
  
  
• Domenico Ghirlandaio
  • Portrait of a Man and His Grandchild
  
  
• Andrea Verrocchio
  • David
  • Equestrian Statue of Colleoni
  • Baptism of Christ
  • Christ and Doubting Thomas
  • Putto with Dolphin
  
  
• Pietro Perugino
  • Delivery of the Keys

Italian Renaissance - High

• Venetian Renaissance
  • Titian
    • Sacred and Profane Love
    • Venus of Urbino
    • Portrait of Isabella d'Este
    • Madonna with the Pesaro Family
  • Giorgione
    • Le Concert Champêtre
    • La Tempesta (The Tempest)
  
  
• Architects
  • Donato Bramante
    • Tempietto of San Pietro
    • St. Peter's Cathedral (coin by Caradosso)
  • Andrea Palladio
    • Tempietto Barbaro [illustration]
    • Villa Rotunda [floorplan]
    • San Giorgio Maggiore
  
  
• Leonardo da Vinci
  • Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
  • Virgin of the Rocks [Louvre]
  • Ginevra de Benci
  • The Last Supper
  • Mona Lisa
  • Leonardo's Perspective [Shockwave plugin required]
  
  
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • Sculpture
    • Pietà
    • David
    • Moses [closeup of head]
    • Slaves
  • Sistine Chapel Frescoes
    • Central Narratives
      • First Triad: Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants
      • Second Triad: Creation of Adam
      • Third Triad: The Flood (Deluge)
    • Pendentives
      • David and Goliath
    • Prophets and Sibyls
      • Isaiah
      • Libyan Sibyl
    • Medallions
    • Ignudi
  
  
• Raphael Santi
  • Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
  • Madonna of the Meadow
  • Madonna of the Chair (Madonna della Seggiola)
  • School of Athens
    • Who's who in the School of Athens?
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Transfiguration
  • Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
  • Meeting of St Leo and Attila
  • Mount Parnassus
  • The Fire in the Borgo

Italian Renaissance - Late (Mannerist)

• Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • Medici Chapel
    • Interior view
    • Madonna and Child
    • St. Cosmas, Madonna, and St. Damien
    • Giuliano's statues: Day and Night
    • Lorenzo's statues: Dawn and Dusk (Twilight)
  • Laurentian Library
    • Hall
    • Staircase [frontal view]
  • Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel
  • Rondanini Pietà
  • St. Peter's Basilica
    • Floor plan
    • Illustration from front
    • Dome
  • Capitoline Hill façades
    • design
    • frontal view
    • aerial view
  
  
• El Greco
  • Assumption of the Virgin
  • Burial of the Count of Orgaz
  • Agony in the Garden
  • View of Toledo
  • Portrait of a Cardinal
  
  
• Tintoretto
  • Christ before Pilate
  • The Last Supper
  
  
• Parmigianino
  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Madonna of the Long Neck
  
  
• Jacopo da Pontormo
  • Deposition

Northern Renaissance - Early

• Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle)
  • Mérode Altarpiece
  
  
• Jan van Eyck
  • Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
  • Man in a Red Turban
  • Ghent Altarpiece
  
  
• Rogier van der Weyden
  • Deposition (a.k.a. Descent from Cross)
  • Last Judgment
  • Portraits

Northern Renaissance - Late

• Albrecht Dürer
  • Adam and Eve
  • The Knight, Death, and the Devil
  • The Four Apostles
  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  • Self-Portraits
    • 1500
    • 1498
  
  
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • The Hunters in the Snow
  • The Wedding Banquet
  • Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind
  • The Triumph of Death
  
  
• Matthias Grünewald
  • The Isenheim Altarpiece
  
  
• Hieronymus Bosch
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights
    • Outer wings
    • Left wing
    • Central panel
    • Right wing
  
  
• Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Portrait of Henry VIII
  • The Ambassadors

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