CategoriesStyles and Movements
High Renaissance
The brief summit of Italian Renaissance art, about 1490 to 1527, when Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and the Venetians achieved balance and grandeur.
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The High Renaissance names a short span, from the 1490s to the Sack of Rome in 1527, when artists in Florence, Rome and Venice fused the discoveries of the previous century into works of new unity and scale. Figures became monumental and calm, compositions balanced, and anatomy, perspective and light were handled with ease rather than display.
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (1495–98) in Milan arranges the apostles in rhythmic groups around a still centre. Michelangelo Buonarroti carved the marble David (1501–04) and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508–12). Raphael's School of Athens (1509–11) places philosophers within an ideal classical architecture, and Donato Bramante designed the new St Peter's in Rome. In Venice, Giorgione and Titian built pictures from colour and atmosphere rather than line. Within a few years this harmony gave way to the restless, stylised inventions of Mannerism.
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