Ever since, the Sistine Madonna has been displayed at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. After World War II, the Red Army took it to Moscow but the painting was returned to Germany after Stalin’s death in 1955. He relocated it to Dresden, Germany, where it achieved a status of an almost religious icon. Painted in 1512 on commission of Pope Julius II, the masterpiece was in the mid-18th century bought by King Augustus III of Poland.
Probably the most famous Raphael’s painting after The School of Athens, the Sistine Madonna was originally created as an altarpiece for the church of San Sisto in Piacenza, Italy. It remained in possession of the French royal family until the French Revolution when it was nationalized and put on display in the Louvre. In 1518, the painting was bought by Francis I of France, probably from da Vinci’s pupil and assistant Salaì. The painting is believed to be a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo but the identity of “Mona Lisa” continues to be a matter of debate, just like her enigmatic smile. Probably the most famous painting of all time, Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 15 but it is thought that the renowned polymath worked on it up until 1517. Since 1910, the original site outside the Palazzo Vecchio has been occupied by a full-sized replica. In 1873, Michelangelo’s David was moved to the Accademia Gallery, Florence, where it remains to this day.
But instead, it was placed outside the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria. The 14 foot marble statue representing the Biblical David was supposed to stand on the roofline of the Florence Cathedral. The celebrated Italian Renaissance artist created one of his greatest masterpieces between 15. Today a part of the art collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, the Birth of Venus is thought to have been commissioned by the Medici family of Florence but the earliest written record of the Medici’s ownership of the painting dates only from the mid-16th century. On the left are wind gods blowing Venus to the shore on a giant shell and on the right is a nymph (or according to some sources a handmaid Ora) who is holding a cloth to cover her naked body. The Birth of Venus is a mid-1480s Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece which depicts the Roman goddess Venus after being born fully-grown from the sea foam. Below we can see the twelve apostles whose dramatic reaction to the sight of Mary’s raising to heaven was a major break with the traditional depiction of Biblical figures. The central zone depicts the moment of Mary’s bodily uptake into Heaven above where is God the Father about to take a crown from the angel in the right. Adorning the high altar of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari in Venice, Italy, the painting is divided into three zones. The Assumption of the Virgin by Titian is a 690 cm x 360 cm (270 in x 140 in) altarpiece panel painting, which makes it the largest altarpiece in Venice. In this case, the child next to her is Child Jesus. The woman under God’s arm is thought to be Eve but it has also been hypothesized that it could be Virgin Mary. On the left of Michelangelo’s most famous Sistine Chapel wall painting is Adam and on the right is God reaching out to Adam to give him life. Commissioned by Pope Julius II, the ceiling painting is a part of a larger fresco decoration in the papal chapel created by Michelangelo as well as other prominent Renaissance painters. The Creation of Adam is one of the ceiling frescoes or wall paintings in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, which was painted by Michelangelo between 15. Italian Renaissance lasted until the 17th century and led to creation of some of the greatest masterpieces in history of art.
It marked the beginning of the so-called European Renaissance, a pan-European cultural movement characterized by a radical break with the Medieval ideas and ideals, and renewed interest in Classical Antiquity. Italian Renaissance refers to the cultural movement that started in the 14th century in the city-state of Florence from where it soon spread to the rest of Italy. You are here: Art Lists / Renaissance Art Lists / 10 Greatest Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance 10 Greatest Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance
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