1. High Renaissance Art

2. Leonardo

3. Leonardo Da Vinci, Self Portrait, 1512 CE

6. Leonardo Da Vinci, Embryo in a Womb, c. 1510 CE

8. Leonardo Da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks, c.1485 CE

9. Verrocchio, Baptism of Christ, 1472-1475

10. Verrocchio, Baptism of Christ, 1472-1475; Detail by Leonardo

12. Leonardo Da Vinci, Last Supper, c.1495-1498 CE

18. Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c.1503- 1505 CE

23. High Renaissance Architecture

24. Sangallo, Palazzo Farnese, c.1530-1546

28. Bramante, Tempietto, 1502

36. Bramante, St. Peters, 1502

38. Michelangelo

39. Michelangelo, Pieta, 1489- 1490

40. Michelangelo, David, 1501- 1504

46. Michelangelo, Sistine Ceiling, 1501-1504

56. Michelangelo, Moses, 1513- 1515

59. Raphael

60. Raphael, The Madonna in the Meadow, 1505- 1506

61. How can we treat, in small compass, of him whose fame has filled the universe? On the history of Italian art, he stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of our literature. -----Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters, 1859

62. Raphaels greatest paintings seem so effortless that one does not usually connect them with the ideas of hard and relentless work. To many, he is simply the painter of the sweet Madonnas which have become so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings anymore…We see cheap reproductions of these works in humble rooms, and we are apt to conclude that paintings with such general appeal must surely be a little obvious. In fact, their apparent simplicity is the fruit of deep thought, careful planning, and immense artistic wisdom. -----Ernst Gombrich (modern critic)

63. Raphael, Galatea, 1513

67. Raphael, School of Athens, 1509-1511

73. Michelangelo

74. Michelangelo, Tomb of Giuliano deMedici, 1519-1534

75. Michelangelo, Tomb of Giuliano deMedici,

76. Michelangelo, Tomb of Lorenzo deMedici

78. Michelangelo, Tomb of Giuliano deMedici,

82. Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1534-1541

83. Michelangelo, Last Judgment,

90. St. Peters

95. Michelangelo, St. Peters,