February 22
Sixteenth Century

 

 

Themes of the Stanza della Segnatura:
Theme	Title
Philosophy	School of Athens
Theology	Disputà
Poetry	Parnassus
Law	Cardinal Virtues Under Justice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael. Stanza della Segnatura. Parnassus (left) School of Athens (right). 1510-11.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael. Stanza della Segnatura. Cardinal Virtues under Justice (left) Disputa (right). 1510-11.

 

 

 

 

Virtual tour of the Stanza della Segnatura

 

 

 

Raphael. School of Athens. c. 1510-11.

 

 

 

Figures in the School of Athens

 

More images of the Stanza della Segnatura

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475-1564

 

 

Michelangelo
Duane Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. Pietà. c. 1500.
Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996.

 

 

 

 

More Pieta images

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. David. 1501-4.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

detail of Michelangelo's David

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polykleitos. Doryphoros. 450 - 440 BC. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.	Michelangelo. David. 1501-4. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps by Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydoros of Rhodes. The Laocoon Group. (present state, former restorations removed). 1st century BC.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donatello. David. c.1446-60.	Michelangelo. David. 1501-4. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Map of the fresco program on the Sistine Chapel ceiling	Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel ceiling. 1508-12
unknown source	Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996, p. 746.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel ceiling. 1508-12.

 

 

 

Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel

 

Expulsion from Eden

Creation of Adam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Restoration detail of the Sistine Chapel ceiling
David Jeffery. "A Renaissance for Michelangelo." National Geographic. December, 1989: 696.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sistine ceiling cleaning
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 1. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2 vols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. Last Judgement. 1536-41.

 

 

 

 

Last Judgment detail

 

 

 

 

Last Judgement detail

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo. Saint Peter's Basilica. c. 1546 - 64.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Floor plans of Saint Peter's Basilica