Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Rennaisance


David
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1501-04
Marble, 517cm


The Creation of Adam from The Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Italy, 1512
Fresco, 480x230cm


Mona Lisa (La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, c.1503–1519 (probably finished by 1506)
Oil on poplar, 77x53cm


The Last Supper
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italy, 1495-1498
Tempera, mastic, pitch on plaster - fresco, 4.6x8.8m

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The Medieval Period


The Adoration Of The Magi
artist unknown, Taull, Spain, 12th century AD
fresco


Tympanum of the South Portal of Saint-Pierre, Moissac
artist unknown, 1115-1135AD
Stone


Abraham and the Three Angels (from Psalter of St. Louis)
artist unknown, 1253-70AD


Diptych of Anastasius (Diptyque de Flavius Anastasius Probus)
artist unknown, 517AD, Constantinople
Ivory