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Unit: Italy 16th century

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A beginner's guide to the High Renaissance

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Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction
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The Sack of Rome in 1527
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Renaissance woman: Isabella d’Este
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The Medici collect the Americas
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Toward the high Renaissance: Verrocchio and Leonardo
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A failed experiment: Medici porcelain
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Galileo Galilei
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Galileo and Renaissance Art
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Conservation: portrait miniatures
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Leonardo da Vinci

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About Leonardo
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Letter to the Duke of Milan
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Leonardo: Anatomist - by Nature Video
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Leonardo and his drawings
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Virgin of the Rocks
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Virgin of the Rocks
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Adoration of the Magi
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Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist (Burlington House Cartoon)
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The Last Supper
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The Last Supper
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Mona Lisa
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Mona Lisa
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The Last SupperGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect and Poet
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Who was Michelangelo?
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Michelangelo and his early drawings
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Pietà (marble sculpture)
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Michelangelo's David and the Florentine Republic
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Moses (marble sculpture)
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Moses (marble sculpture)
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Carving marble with traditional tools
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Slaves (marble sculptures)
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Studies for the Battle of Cascina and the Creation of Adam
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Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
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Last Judgment - Essay by Dr. Esperanca Camara
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Last Judgment (altar wall, Sistine Chapel)
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Studies for the Last Judgment and a late crucifixion drawing
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Michelangelo, Medici Chapel (New Sacristy)
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Laurentian Library
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Replicating Michelangelo
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Get 3 of 4 questions to level up!

Raphael

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Raphael, an introduction
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Raphael and his drawings
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Raphael, Marriage of the Virgin, 1504
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Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch
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Raphael, La belle jardinière
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Raphael, School of Athens
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Raphael, Alba Madonna
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Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II
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Raphael, Galatea
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Raphael, Pope Leo X
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Bramante

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Bramante, Tempietto
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Bramante, et.al., Saint Peter's Basilica
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Bramante, et.al., Saint Peter's Basilica
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The High Renaissance in Florence and RomeGet 6 of 8 questions to level up!

Misc. Central and Northern Italy

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A Renaissance dinner service for a duchess
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Mannerism

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Mannerism, an introduction
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Pontormo, The Entombment of Christ
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck
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Parmigianino, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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Rosso Fiorentino, the Dead Christ with Angels
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Bronzino, An Allegory with Venus and Cupid
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Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni
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Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni
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Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
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Sofonisba Anguissola
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Sofonisba Anguissola, Infanta Catalina Micaela with a Marmoset
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Benvenuto Cellini, Salt Cellar
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Cellini, Perseus
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Giambologna, Abduction of a Sabine Woman
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Pontormo, The Entombment of ChristGet 3 of 3 questions to level up!
MannerismGet 6 of 8 questions to level up!

Venice

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The Renaissance Synagogues of Venice
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Giorgione, The Tempest
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Giorgione, The Tempest
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Giorgione, Three Philosophers
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Giorgione, the Adoration of the Shepherds
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Bellini and Titian, the Feast of the Gods
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Titian, Pastoral Concert
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Titian, Noli me Tangere
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Titian, Assumption of the Virgin
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Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
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Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne
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Titian, two portraits of Pietro Aretino
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Titian, Venus of Urbino
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Titian, Venus of Urbino
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Titian, Christ Crowned with Thorns
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Titian, Pieta
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Correggio, Jupiter and Io
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Correggio, Assumption of the Virgin
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Veronese, The Family of Darius Before Alexander
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Veronese, the Dream of Saint Helena
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Paolo Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi
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Transcript of the trial of Veronese
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Tintoretto, the Miracle of the Slave
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Tintoretto, The Finding of the Body of Saint Mark
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Tintoretto, the Origin of the Milky Way
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Tintoretto, Last Supper
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Palladio, La Rotonda
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Palladio, Teatro Olimpico
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Titian's Venus of Urbino Get 3 of 3 questions to level up!
The Renaissance in Venice in the 1500sGet 7 of 10 questions to level up!
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Brought to you by Smarthistory. Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, Leonardo’s Last Supper, and Raphael's Stanza frescos shape our understanding of Western culture even today.