High Renaissance

Last Supper

1495-98

Milan, Italy

Oil and Tempera on plaster 

Leonardo da Vinci 

Sfumato: smokey haze 

Location: one end of a monk’s dining hall 

Judas holds a bag of gold, proving his betrayal 

Geometry and balance begins 

1 point perspective: a vanishing point

Sistine Chapel ceiling

1508-1512

Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Michelangelo

Frescoes 

Patron: the Pope 

Tells many, many stories in horizontal registers

Sistine Chapel altar wall

1534-1541

Vatican City, Rome, Italy 

Michelangelo

Frescoes 

Patron: the Pope 

Large, chaotic crowds 

Shows resurrection, also hell 

School of Athens

1509-1511

Vatican City, Rome, Italy 

Raphael 

Fresco 

Patron: Pope Julius 2

Plato and (his student) Aristotle (in middle)

Venus of Urbino

1538 

Venice 

Titian 

Oil on canvas

Patron: the Duke of Urbino 

Ladies in the back are getting clothes for nude lady

Made for male gaze

Direct gaze, contemporary interior, upper class (servants)

Glazing: multiple layers of thin coats of paint (10-15) 

Balanced composition 

Marriage portrait? Painterly seduction?