Renaissance

Renaissance: As Europe emerged from the darkness of The Middle Ages there was a rebirth and intellectual stimulation promoting social, artistic, scientific and economic growth. The art of the Renaissance was created for the wealthy patrons of the church and egocentric competition among the artists fueled artistic invention and progress from the Fourteenth through the Sixteenth centuries. Italy was the center of the High Renaissance and produced artists such as Giotto, Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, Leonardo daVinci's Mona Lisa, and Botticelli's The Birth of Venus to name only a few. Giotto is credited with beginning to model the human form in three dimensions in the frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua. Medieval taboos forbade the creation of pagan images so previously all icons were defined by flat outlines. Michelangelo believed he was empowered by God to release the images that were inherent in the marble. As a true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci , inventor, artist, scientist and philosopher, was ahead of his time.

Venus and Cupid    The Birth of Venus    The Ambassadors    Cherubs - Galatea (Detail)    Romanesque II    The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John The Baptist,c.1499    The Creation of Adam    War Machine    Primavera    Sistine Madonna    The School of Athens (Detail, Left Foreground)    Children?s Games    Angeli    Muses No. IV    Venus And Mars, About 1485    Sistine Chaple-Eve    Kingdoms Unite I    Overture    The Creation Of Adam (detail)    Mona Lisa    Creation Of Adam    Vedute di Roma Antica    The Arnolfini Portrait    Angels (Detail from the Coronation)    Peasant?s Dance    The Three Graces II - Detail    Roman Fresco    Studio di Figure    Renaissance Panel II    Vetruvian Man    Interior of Saint Peter    Architectural Detail    Cretan Icon II    Bacchus and Ariadne    Detail from a Loggia in the Vatican I    Creation of Man    Trionfo di Galatea    Cherubini    Tapestry/The Lady and the Unicorn: La Vue (Sight)    Muse No. I    The Hands of God and Man (Detail from Creation of Man)    Kingdoms Unite II    Angels & Cherubs II    Cupid Complaining to Venus    The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist    Studio di capitelli    Angel (Detail from the Annunciation)    Cherubs Scattering Flowers    Sistine Chapel-Adam    The Three Graces (Detail From Primavera)    Grand Scena    Tapestry/The Lady and the Unicorn: A Mon Seul Desir (To My Only Desire)    Hanging Gardens of Babylon    Sistine Madonna (detail)    Detail from a Loggia in the Vatican II    Muses No. V    Tapestry/The Lady and the Unicorn: Le Toucher (Touch)    La Scapigliata    Cretan Icon I    Village Wedding Feast    Madonna and Child with Infant St. John    Head of Adam (Detail from Creation of Man)    Tapestry/The Lady and the Unicorn: L?ouie (Hearing)    Christ’s Head    The Last Supper,1497    Detail from a Loggia in the Vatican IV    Giant Catapult    St. Anne    Madonna    Head of a Child    Madonna and Child with St. John and St. Jerome    Mamma e Bambino    Studi per un monumento equestre    School of Athens    La Guirlande De Fleurs    Monumento a Niccolo    Head of God (Detail from Creation of Adam)    The School of Athens (Detail, Right Foreground)    Detail from a Loggia in the Vatican III    Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome    The Virgin, Child, and St. Anne    The Three Graces I - Detail    Angels & Cherubs I    Study of Human Proportions    The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini with Giovanna Cenami    The Madonna Del Granduca    Winter/Hunters in the Snow    Nude II    Detail From Bacchus And Ariadne    The Interior of the Pantheon, Rome    Mamma con Bimbo    Nude I    The Vitruvian Man    St. catherine of Alexandria (detail)    La Primavera - Detail    Amorini III    Monumento a Giovanni    Delphic Sibyl    Erythrean Sibyl    Romanesque I    Annunciation    Creation Of Adam(Detail)    Village Lawyer    Tower Of Babel    Crucifixion    The Transfiguration    Christ w/ Symbols Of Passion Surrounded by Angels    Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East    The Triumph Of Galatea    Rome: Ruins Of The Forum, Looking Towards The Capitol    Venus And Adonis    Ezekiel’s Vision    Madonna And Child With Angels    Vertumnus    Flora    The Adoration Of The Child    Venus At Her Mirror    Winter Landscape With Skaters    Mystical Nativity    Pallas/Camilla and the Centaur    St. George And The Dragon    Capriccio Of Colonade And The Courtyard Of A Palace    Water    Leda And The Swan