LATE RENAISSANCE ART

Mid - Late 1500s


Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo
(Florentine:  1494 - 1557)
 

Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo – Portrait of a Halberdier (1528-1530) oil on canvas
Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum
Wikipedia, "Pontormo"

Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo – A Portrait of a Lady in Red (1532) oil on wood
Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Wikipedia, "Pontormo"

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Il Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo)
(Florence:  1503 - 1572)
 

Angelo Bronzino – Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1540) oil on wood
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
Wikipedia, "Bronzino"

Angelo Bronzino – Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1540) oil on wood
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
Wikipedia, "Bronzino"

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
(Venetian:  1518 - 1594)
 

Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) – Transport of the Body of St. Mark (1562-1566) oil on canvas
Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 111


Paolo Veronese
(Venetian:  1528 - 1588)
 

Paolo Veronese - The Wedding at Cana (1562-1563)
Paris, Louvre Museum
Wikipedia - "Paolo Veronese"

Paolo Veronese - The Feast in the House of Levi (1573)
Accademia of Venice
Wikipedia - "Paolo Veronese"

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Pieter Bruegel
(Flemish:  1525 - 1569)
 

Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Wedding Feast (c. 1566) Oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, p. 271

Pieter Bruegel – The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (1568) tempera on canvas
Naples, Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 106

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Late Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture

Benvenuto Cellini - Perseus with the head of Medusa
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

Germain Pilon – The Three Graces; Monument to the heart of Henri II (1560-1566) marble
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 105


Andrea Palladio
(Italian Architect:  1508 -1580)
 

Andrea Palladio – Villa La Rotonda, Vicenza
work commenced by Palladio in 1550; finished by Scamozzi in 1606
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 113

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Giorgio Vasari
(Italian Architect:  1511 -1574)
 

Giorgio Vasari - The Ufizzi Gallery, Florence
(looking toward the Palazzo Vecchio)

Giorgio Vasari - The Corridoio vasariano ("Vasari Corridor" )
from the Palazzo Vecchio, through the Ufizzi Gallery, across the Ponte Vecchio, to the Palazzo Pitti
photo by 'Sailko'
Wikipedia - "Vasari Corridor"

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Other Late Renaissance Architects
 

Robert Smythson – Wollaton Hall, Notthinghamshire (1580-1588)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 112

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola – Stairway of the Farnese Palace, Caprarola, near Viterbo,
constructed for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1559-1564)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 112

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Miles H. Hodges - 2011