(S1 E1) Dawn of the High Renaissance, 1470-1520 || A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance

Featured in this video: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and their contemporaries
0:00 Recap and intro
2:51 Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation
5:19 Leonardo, Ginevra de’ Benci
9:16 Leonardo at the court of Milan
Leonardo, Codex Atlanticus and engineering
Leonardo, Lady with an Ermine
14:09 Leonardo's two Virgins of the Rocks
21:42 Leonardo, The Last Supper
25:50 Leonardo and Michelangelo: rivalry in Florence
Leonardo's lost Battle of Anghiari
Michelangelo's unfinished Battle of Cascina
32:37 Michelangelo, Pietà
36:16 Michelangelo, David
39:36 Bramante, Tempietto
42:08 Julius II: the "Warrior Pope"
Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna
Francesco Francia, Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga
47:39 Raphael: "prince of painters"
Perugino, Marriage of the Virgin
Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin
51:18 Raphael's Madonnas
Raphael, Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael, Sistine Madonna
Raphael, Alba Madonna
57:28 Leonardo's late works
Leonardo, La Scapigliata
Leonardo, St. John the Baptist
1:00:06 The Mona Lisa(s)
Leonardo, Mona Lisa
The Isleworth Mona Lisa
"Monna Vanna"

“A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance" tells the story of European Renaissance art from about 1250 to 1610 in a continuous chronological narrative. Season 1 will focus on the 16th century, covering the period 1469 to 1610 in seven chapters with an introduction.

This lecture series aims to present Renaissance art in coherent context rather than as a disconnected collection of facts and artworks to be memorized. The focus here is not on individual artworks - although in-depth analyses of specific works are featured, too - but on the bigger picture of the Renaissance, including cross-cultural influences and artistic dialogues. It assumes little to no background in art history.

In this season:
Chapter 0 - Season 1 Introduction: Renaissance Florence, ca. 1460
Chapter 1 - The Dawn of the High Renaissance, 1469-1520
Chapter 2 - Stylistic Synthesis in the High Renaissance, 1500-1527
Chapter 3 - The Reformation, 1500-1550
Chapter 4 - New Landscapes, New Genres, 1500-1569
Chapter 5 - Mannerism: the Art of Artifice, 1520-1569
Chapter 6 - The Evolving European Taste: Image and Patronage, 1527-1600
Chapter 7 - Dawn of the Baroque: Reverberations of Renaissance and Reformation, 1575-1610

All content created, edited, written, and produced by Weili Jin, 2022; published 2023
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