Renaissance: Associated artworks



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David

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. The 5.17 meter (17 ft) marble statue portrays the Biblical King David in the nude. Unlike previous depictions of David which portray the hero after his...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1500

x Date Completed:: 1504

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France...

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint,; Canvas

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1503

x Date Completed:: 1507

The Last Supper

The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the...

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:: Mural

x Media:: Oil paint,; Tempera

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

Pietà

La Pietà (1499) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by the renowned artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1498

x Date Completed:: 1499

The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Fresco

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1511

Moses

The Moses is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1513–1515 which depicts the Biblical figure Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II. Originally intended for St. Peter's Basilica, "Moses" and the tomb were instead placed in the minor...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1513

x Date Completed:: 1515

Ginevra de' Benci

Ginevra de' Benci (Born 1457) was a lady of the aristocratic class in 15th century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of one of only about 17 existing paintings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci....

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance,; Italian Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1474

x Date Completed:: 1478

The Benois Madonna

Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas started by Leonardo da Vinci, as he remarked himself, in October 1478. The other one could be Madonna with the Carnation from Munich. It is likely...

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: High Renaissance,; Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: Oct 1478

x Date Completed:

Annunciation

The painting "Annunciation" or "The Annunciation" by Leonardo da Vinci was painted, with Andrea del Verrocchio, circa 1472–1475. The wings were later extended by another artist. The angel holds a Madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity and of the...

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

Battle of the Centaurs

Battle of the Centaurs is a relief done by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, around 1492. It is in the Florentine museum Casa Buonarroti. Battle is the second known piece made by Michelangelo. It was carved in white...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Relief

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1492

Madonna of the Steps

Madonna of the stairs (or Madonna of the steps) is a relief done by Michelangelo, created during the time he was in the school of Lorenzo de' Medici. The first sign that Madonna of the stairs was a Michelangelo's sculputre cited of Giorgio Vasari's...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Relief,; Statue

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1490

x Date Completed:: 1492

St. John the Baptist

St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting. The original size of the work...

x Artist:: Leonardo da Vinci

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1513

x Date Completed:: 1516

Venus of Urbino

The Venus of Urbino (1538) is an oil painting by the Italian master Titian. It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It hangs in the Galleria...

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1538

The Entombment of Christ

The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603) is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It was painted for Santa Maria in Vallicella, a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, and adjacent to the buildings of the order. A copy of the...

x Artist:: Caravaggio

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

St. Sebastian

St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed in 1474. It is housed in the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. The painting was put up with great ceremony in 1474 on one of the pillars in Florence's Santa Maria...

x Artist:: Sandro Botticelli

x Art Form:

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione is an oil painting attributed to the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, circa 1514-1515. Baldassarre Castiglione was a literary figure active at the court of Urbino in the early years of the 16th century....

x Artist:: Raphael

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1515

St. Sebastian

St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, circa 1501-1502. It is housed in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, Italy. The picture represents slight variations of Perugino's motives. In this painting graceful...

x Artist:: Raphael

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

The Deposition

The Deposition (also called the Florence Pietà, the Pietà del Duomo or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo. The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1553...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1550

Cristo della Minerva

The Cristo della Minerva, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross, is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, finished in 1521. The work is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva,...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture,; Statue

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1514

x Date Completed:: 1521

Hercules and Cacus

The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. This work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) was commissioned as a pendant to...

x Artist:: Bartolommeo Bandinelli

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble,; White marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1525

x Date Completed:: 1534

Judith and Holofernes

The bronze sculpture Judith and Holofernes (1460), created by Donatello at the end of his career, can be seen in the Hall of Lilies (Sala dei Gigli), in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. A copy stands in one of the sculpture's original positions...

x Artist:: Donatello

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Bronze

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1460

x Date Completed:: 1460

The Wedding at Cana

The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana) is a massive painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter, Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting depicts the wedding feast at Cana, a...

x Artist:: Paolo Veronese

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1563

Bacchus and Ariadne

Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23) is an oil painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara...

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1520

x Date Completed:: 1523

Doni Tondo

The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the earliest of only three surviving panel paintings by the adult Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1503), and the only one to be finished. It is in the Uffizi in Florence in its original frame,...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Tempera,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1503

St. Sebastian

St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, finished in 1477-1479. It is currently housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany. One of the most famous pictures of the early Renaissance, it was...

x Artist:: Antonello da Messina

x Art Form:

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment is a fresco by Michelangelo on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It took four years to complete. Michelangelo began working on it three decades after finishing the ceiling of the chapel. The work is massive and...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Fresco

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1535

x Date Completed:: 1541

Madonna of Bruges

The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, of Mary with the infant Jesus. Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture,; Statue

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1501

x Date Completed:: 1504

St. Petronius

The statue of St. Petronius (1494–1495) was created by Michelangelo out of marble. Its height is 64 cm. It is situated in the Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna. Its subject is Saint Petronius, bishop of Bologna.

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1494

x Date Completed:: 1495

The Battle of San Romano

The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the battle of San Romano in 1432. The paintings are in tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long, and were...

x Artist:: Paolo Uccello

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1440

Sacred and Profane Love

Sacred and Profane Love (also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted around 1513–1514. The painting was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten (so identified because his coat of arms...

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1514

Christ Carrying the Cross

Christ Carrying the Cross is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted in the early 16th century, presumably between 1515 and 1516. The painting resides at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.

x Artist:: Hieronymus Bosch

x Art Form:

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

The Entombment

The Entombment is an unfinished painting of the Entombment of Christ attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, and dated c. 1500-1501. It is in the National Gallery in London. The chronological position of this work has...

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Tempera

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1500

x Date Completed:

Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

The Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (c. 1451). It portrays the condottiero and lord of Rimini and Fano Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and is housed in the Musée du...

x Artist:: Piero della Francesca

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1451

The Conversion of Saul

The Conversion of Saul is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City.

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Fresco

x Media:

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1542

x Date Completed:: 1545

Diana and Actaeon

Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556–1559, and is considered amongst Titian's greatest works. It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana meets Actaeon. In 2008–2009, the National Gallery,...

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Oil paint,; Canvas

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1559

Slaves

"Slaves" (c. 1513-1515) is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.

x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Art Form:: Sculpture

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1513

x Date Completed:: 1515

Danaë

"Danaë" (1549-1550) is a painting by Titian, now located in Museo del Prado.

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:: 1549

x Date Completed:: 1550

Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain

"Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain" (1549) is a painting by Renaissance artist Titian.

x Artist:: Titian

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1549

Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels

x Artist:: Agostino di Duccio

x Art Form:: Relief

x Media:: Marble

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:

Virgin and Child

"Virgin and Child" (1663) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani.

x Artist:: Elisabetta Sirani

x Art Form:: Painting

x Media:: Canvas,; Oil paint

x Period or Movement:: Renaissance

x Date Begun:

x Date Completed:: 1663

Leda and the Swan

Currently owned by the National Gallery in London, this painting is considered to be a 16th century copy of a lost painting of this subject by Michelangelo which he painted in 1530, in tempera.The subject of the painting is taken from Greek...