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The Renaissance'S Big Men On Canvas

The document provides summaries of five famous Renaissance artworks: 1) Titian's The Supper at Emmaus depicts Christ revealing himself to disciples, with one drawing back gently upon realization. 2) Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait and most written about work of art in the world. 3) Raphael's Aldobrandini Madonna from 1509-1510 shows the Virgin Mary, Christ Child, and John the Baptist. 4) Botticelli's The Birth of Venus from 1486 depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea as a fully grown woman. 5) Raphael's School of Athens is one of his most famous frescoes

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The Renaissance'S Big Men On Canvas

The document provides summaries of five famous Renaissance artworks: 1) Titian's The Supper at Emmaus depicts Christ revealing himself to disciples, with one drawing back gently upon realization. 2) Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait and most written about work of art in the world. 3) Raphael's Aldobrandini Madonna from 1509-1510 shows the Virgin Mary, Christ Child, and John the Baptist. 4) Botticelli's The Birth of Venus from 1486 depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea as a fully grown woman. 5) Raphael's School of Athens is one of his most famous frescoes

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THE RENAISSANCES BIG MEN ON CANVAS

The Boston show is full of groupings that allow you to compare how all three artists handled similar subjects. At various times each of them produced a version of The Supper at Emmaus, the story from the New Testament in which the Risen Christ reveals himself to a pair of astonished disciples. Titian's came first, in 1533-34, a picture of masterly calm and balance that borrows the stabilizing horizontal format of Leonardo's Last Supper. At the realization that his table mate is Christ, the disciple at left draws back, but gently. The one at right, who rises slightly from his chair, is probably a portrait of the patron who commissioned the painting, Count Nicola Maffei of Mantua.

THE MONA LISA

The Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa or La Gioconda in Italian; La Joconde in French) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world."]

THE ALDOBRANDINI MADONNA

The Aldobrandini Madonna is a painting from about 1509-1510 oil by theItalian renaissance artist Raphael. The picture is of the Virgin Mother, Christ child and infant John the Baptist, one of many paintings by Raphael with this trio. It is from early in his third, or Roman period, where distinctive changes are seen from his Umbrian or Florentine period in style, use of colour, and introduction of more natural subjects and settings.

THE BIRTH OF VENUS

The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de' Medici, close friend to Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS

The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene in Italian, is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as theStanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. TheStanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, andThe School of Athens, representing Philosophy, was probably the second painting to be finished there,[1] after La Disputa (Theology) on the opposite wall, and the Parnassus (Literature). The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance.

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