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Describe the emergence and development of mythological painting in the Renaissance.

Question Description

Each essay has to he two pages long for my exam so can you make the outline for a two page paper for each individual question.

1.Describe the emergence and development of mythological painting in the Renaissance.

2.Make an argument for the Paragone for either sculpture or painting. Use specific artist(s) and their work(s).

3.How does Mannerism evolve out of the ‘perfetta maniera’ of Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael?

4.Compare and contrast Titian’s Flora and Palma il Vecchio’s A Blonde Woman. What stands out? How are the subjects treated differently? In what ways are they similar?

These are the artworks we studied in class.

This also gives you the time period.

  • Giuliano da Maiano, Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, 1470s, Urbino.
  • Pisanello, Saint George and the Princess, c. 1437-8.
  • Paolo Uccello, Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood, 1436, Florence.
  • Donatello, Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata, c. 1445-53, Padua.
  • Andrea del Castagno, Niccolò da Tolentino, 1456, Florence.
  • Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece),1472-74.
  • Andrea Mantegna, Saint Sebastian, c. 1480.
  • Andrea Mantegna, Crucifixion, 1457-1459.
  • Andrea Mantegna, Camera dei sposi, 1465-1474, Palazzo Ducale of Mantua.
  • Andrea Mantegna, Parnassus, 1497.
  • Sandro Botticelli, The Spring, c. 1482-1485.
  • Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1483-85.
  • Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait, 1500.
  • Albrecht Dürer, Fall of Man, 1504.
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Judgment of Paris, c. 1528.
  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1555.
  • Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Issus1529.
  • Joachim Patinir, Landscape with St Jerome, 1515-19.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks, 1483-1486.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498.
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with saint Anne, c. 1500-1512.
  • Raphael, Portrait of Agnolo Doni and Portrait of Maddalena Strozzic. 1505.
  • Raphael, Madonna in the Meadow, 1505-1506.
  • Raphael, Philosophy (School of Athens), 1509-1511, Rome.
  • Raphael, The Fire in the Borgo, 1514-1517, Rome.
  • Raphael, The Madonna of Foligno, 1511-12.
  • Michelangelo, Pietà, 1498-1499, Saint Peter, Rome.
  • Michelangelo,David, c. 1501-1504, Florence.
  • Michelangelo, The Doni Tondo (Holy Family with the young John the Baptist), c. 1506.
  • Michelangelo, Sistine’s Ceiling, 1508-1512, Rome.
  • Michelangelo, Last Judgement, Sistine chapel, 1536-1541, Rome.
  • Bramante, Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, 1510, Rome.
  • Bramante, Michelangelo, Saint Peter’s, Rome.
  • Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, c. 1560, Maser.
  • Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, 1566-1585.
  • Jacopo Pontormo, Visitation, 1514-16, Florence.
  • Parmigianino, The Vision of St Jerome, 1527.
  • Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long neck, 1534.
  • Andrea del Sarto Madonna of the Harpies, 1517.
  • Pontormo, Pala Pucci, 1518.
  • Pontormo, Capponi Altarpiece, ca 1525-1528, Florence.
  • Rosso Fiorentino, Lamentation, 1530-1535.
  • Antonello da Messina St Jerome in his Study, c. 1475.
  • Antonello da Messina, Condottiere, 1475.
  • Vittore Carpaccio, Vision of St Augustin1502, Venice.
  • Giovanni Bellini, Saint Job altarpiece, c. 1480, Venice.
  • Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505, Venice.
  • Titian, Assumption of the Virgin, 1516-18, Venice.