Lecture 6: High Renaissance in Rome and Venice

Lecture 6: High Renaissance in Rome and Venice

Quick Review:

Leonardo: The Last Supper, 1595-8. / Raphael: School of Athens, 1509-11.
- details School of Athens
Michelangelo:
- David. Marble. 1501-3. /Compare Donatello's David,, St. George, and Classical Antinous & Apollo.
- Moses from Tomb of Julius II. 1513-45.
  - Detail: Head
- Dying Slave. Marble. 1513. {liberation from block: the ideal form}
- Sistine Chapel-130' long, 40' wide ceiling, 1508-12.
  - Details:
    - God Creating the World.{nearest altar} God as like humans.
    - Temptation and Expulsion. Contrast Masaccio's Expulsion.
    - Creation of Adam: Detail: Adam
    - Separation of Light and Dark
    - Creation of Adam: Detail: Female Head
    - Eritrean Sibyl. Compare Prophet Jeremiah
  - Last Judgement. Sistine Chapel. Rome. 1534-41.
    - Center Detail

Architecture

Bramante:

The Tempietto. Rome. 1502. (color) {central plan}
Plan for St Peter's. Rome. 1505-6. /medal showing design, dome.

Palladio:

Villa Rotunda. Vicenza. Begun 1567-9. {temple front inspired by antiquity}.
Ste. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. 1565.

Arch of Septimius Severus. Rome. 203 AD./ Pantheon. 120 AD. Rome. Venetian Painting: Sensuality

Giorgione: Concert Champetre, 1508.

Titian: Venus of Urbino, 1538.