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The High Renaissance

The Rise of Rome1500-1525

Medici Dynasty ends in 1492 End of “Golden Age”

Medici Family survives in Church

Florence controlled by Savonarola

Savonarola

Renaissance Rome

Center of the “High Renaissance”(1500-1525) Break from antiquity Peak of skill

Art to reproduce the natural world

Strong secular Popes Ambitious members of

powerful families Outspend previous Pope

PATRONAGE

Convergence of extreme talent Leonardo, Michelangelo,

Raphael, Bramante, Titian

Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel

Julius II – The Warrior Pope

Aggressive foreign policy Reinstate control over

Papal States

Large scale building projects St. Peter’s Basilica

Great patron of the arts Sistine Chapel ceiling Raphael Rooms in Vatican

St. Peter’s Basilica - Rome

Largest church in the world

668 ft long nave 137 ft wide dome 430 ft tall

Site of remains of Saint Peter

One of the most holy sites in Western Christendom

Construction begun by Pope Julius II, 1506

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Comparing Domes

Saint Peter’s Interior - Cathedra

Pope Leo X

A Medici Pope.

Giovanni de Medici (1513-1521)

Son of Lorenzo

Spends the entire Papal bank account in one year Started selling

Indulgences to pay for St. Peters

“God gave us the

papacy, so let us enjoy

it!”

Leonardo da Vinci – THE Renaissance Man

Artist, Sculptor, Engineer, Architect, Scientist, Inventor The “L’uomo Universale”

Dissected human corpses

Worked largely in Florence and Milan

Spent later years in France with Francis I as a patron

Virtruvian Man Drawing of Womb

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Da Vinci’s Flying Machines

Da Vinci’s Flying Machines

The Last Supper – Convent of Santa Maria, Milan

The Last Supper - Deterioration

The Last Supper – Perspective

Mona Lisa or da Vinci?

Raphael Sanzio 1483-1520

Died at age 37

Most famous works are frescoes in the Vatican Palace Raphael Rooms Fresco: A type of painting

which is painted onto wet plaster

Portraits and Madonnas

St. Peter’s architect after Bramate

School of Athens

Michelangelo Buronatti Sculptor

La Pieta David Tomb of Pope Julius II

Painter Sistine Chapel Ceiling Last Judgement

Architect St. Peter’s Basilica Medici Chapel

Rival of da Vinci

"His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him."

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

Cappella Sistina

Pope Sixtus IV

Pope Julius II

Michelangelo Ceiling, 1508-

1512 L.J., 1537-1541

Sistine Chapel Today

"After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-size figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become."

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Commissioned by Julius II 40 Sculpture Tomb

Painted between 1508-1512

12,000 square feet

9 Scenes from the Book of Genesis: 3 Creation, 3 Adam/Eve, 3 Noah

Creation of Man

Sistine Chapel Restoration

The Last Judgment

Covers entire wall behind altar in Sistine Chapel

1537-1541 Post Reformation

view of Christianity

Nudity and Social Status “Fig Leaf Campaign”

Departure from traditional last judgment scenes

“It was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully…more appropriate for the public baths and taverns."

-Biagio da Cesena

Minos – Judge of Hades Donkey ears SerpentCesena: “He painted me in Hell.

You have to get me out of Hell!”

Pope: “I can get people out of purgatory, but only God can get you out of Hell!”