High Renaissance
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In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the I
Raphael's frescos in the Raphael Rooms of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Julius II.
The Last Supper, mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
Bramante's Tempietto, designed 1502, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (1503–1505/07) in the Louvre.
Michelangelo
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence b
High Renaissance
…Holy Roman Emperor, or about 1530. The best-known exponents of painting, sculpture, and architecture of the High Renaissance include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante. In the 21st century, the use of the term has been frequently criticized by some academic art historians for oversimplifying…
Portrait by Daniele da Volterra, c. 1545
The Madonna of the Stairs (1490–1492), Michelangelo's earliest known work in marble
Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (1498–1499)
David, completed by Michelangelo in 1504, is one of the most renowned works of the Renaissance.