High Renaissance

1495-1520

Plato’s Ion, “All good [artists] …are inspired and possessed

…by power divine.”

High Renaissance:1495-1520 (death of da Vinci, 1519; Raphael,1520)Characterized by: perspective, anatomy, classical, harmony, balance, monumentality, color, controlled cohesive design , realistic details.Encouraged the “artist-genius”Visual Art equaled the value of poetry in Neo PlatonismArtists began a profession of:

rights of expressionrevered charactersaccrued prestige increased gain financially and innovatively

Foremost artistic centers were Florence and RomeForemost artists were Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo

Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519Aspired to discern the

“…the process and

flux of nature.”

Andrea Del Verrocchio and Leonardo, Baptism of Christ, 1488, Florence, Italy

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, c. 1495-1498, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Leonard da Vinci Madonna of the Rocks. 1482-1486, Milan, Oil on wood

“A good painter has two chief objects to paint-man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard…”Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci, cartoon for Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and the infant Saint John, c. 1505-1507

Leonard da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1506, oil on wood panel,