Art History 244 - ITALIAN 16TH-CENTURY ART

The giants of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael are studied against the backdrop of shifting political tides and the emergence of Pope Julius II whose patronage caused the arts in Rome-with such projects as the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of the Papal Apartments-to give a particular meaning to the term Renaissance. This Julian Renaissance, or the High Renaissance in Rome, are compared with the development in painting of the period from 1450 to 1575 in the courts of Mantua, Ferrara and the Republic of Venice, with the significant artists Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. The course concludes with an examination of the later works of Michelangelo, both in painting and architecture, and those artists of the Florentine "Mannerist" period, including Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo and Rosso, as well as the artists Correggio and Parmigianino in Parma. Group A