Renaissance+Art

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 * The Creation of Adam || David || Mona Lisa || The Alba Madonna ||
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 * Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam,is the centerpiece to the many bible scenes that he depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This part of the masterpiece shows god extending his hand to touch Adam's giving him life. IN 1508 Pope Julius the second commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The project took him four years of lying on his back and painting, but when he finally revealed his work to the public, it's brilliance made it the High Renaissance's greatest work. || Donatello created this bronze sculpture for the influential Medici family. This sculpture, of David, was Donatello's most unusual work. I shows the naked figure of david with the head of Goliath under his foot. When it was created the sculpture was the first freestanding life sized nude sculpture in over a thousand years. Before that, nudity was only for renderings of baby Jesus and Adam and Eve. || This portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of an important figure in the Florentine government by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most recognizable paintings in the world and the most recognizable from the Renaissance, but Leonardo was one of the most influential artists of the Renaissance, but he was not only an artist, he possessed an interest and talent in virtually every field. This masterpiece of his continues to intrigue people even today, but even before it was finished, the painting had a major influence on Florentine painting thanks to the young painter Raphael, who often visited Leonardo and adopted the style used in this portrait. || This painting by Raphael, is one of his many depicting the Madonna. Raphael's paintings epitomized high renaissance style and this one is no different, although this one is different than his other paintings of the Madonna. This one is less intimate and more serious. One of the things Raphael did so well was combining old and new in his paintings for instance in this one, the landscape and dress is Ancient Roman instead of more contemporary like in his other works. In this painting, the women's pose resembles that of a sculpture. Also, a second infant, John the Baptist, is pictured along with the baby Jesus. This second figure completes the painting. The most important part of this painting is the reed cross in the Baby Jesus's hand. This symbolizes all of the figures in the painting understanding his fate, since it was taught that he had accepted his fate from the beginning. ||