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This document provides information about artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. It lists their three most famous paintings and provides brief descriptions highlighting key elements and techniques used in each work. For Leonardo, it discusses the Virgin of the Rocks, Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. For Michelangelo, it discusses The Creation of Adam fresco and two other works. For Raphael, it discusses the Madonna of the Meadow and Marriage of the Virgin paintings.

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This document provides information about artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. It lists their three most famous paintings and provides brief descriptions highlighting key elements and techniques used in each work. For Leonardo, it discusses the Virgin of the Rocks, Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. For Michelangelo, it discusses The Creation of Adam fresco and two other works. For Raphael, it discusses the Madonna of the Meadow and Marriage of the Virgin paintings.

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1.

Gothic Art Romanesque Art

2. The Romanesque Art was characterized 3. Leonardo da Vinci’s 3 Most Famous


by a very vigorous style in both sculpture Paintings:
and painting. While the Gothic Art is often
introduced before much change is seen in 1. Virgin of the Rocks:
the style of figures or compositions
themselves. Then figures become more In his Virgin of the Rocks, Leonardo works
animated in pose and facial expression, with modeling his forms through light and
tend to be smaller in relation to the shadows. This particularly shows through
background of scenes, and are arranged the dark and craggy setting of the rocks, in
more freely in the pictorial space, where which many details are revealed and
there is room. obscured by the mystical light in this
Leonardesque landscape.

This technique of blending and smudging


the edges of forms is known as “sfumato” in
Italian, which translates to “smoky”, and
Leonardo has become famous for these This painting was also the center of many
types of landscapes. The landscape is conspiracy theories, due its role in “The
important, because it creates a deliberate DaVinci Code”, but these theories have
been invalidated by art historians.
frame around the pyramidal figure setting,
consisting of the Madonna, Child, and Saint
John the Baptist. Michelangelo‘s 3 Most Famous Paintings:
1. Creation of Adam
2. Mona Lisa:
The Creation of Adam is a large scale fresco
The painting of the Mona Lisa is probably in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
his most famous painting, well known for Michelangelo created these frescoes by
her mysterious facial expression. In this painting on wet plaster, essentially locking
painting, Leonardo is well appreciated for the pigment into the fabric of the wall itself
his innovative use of atmospheric when the plaster dried.
perspective, subtle modeling of forms, and
the feminine mystique it portrays. He The painting depicts a scene from the Book
creates this effect through his stereotypical of Genesis in which God creates Adam. He
Leonardesque landscape, again employing is seen sending life into Adam through their
the “sfumato” technique. fingertips, which are stretching to reach
each other. It is interesting to note the
The Mona Lisa has survived 500 years, figure carrying God is in the shape of a
including one theft in 1911, and numerous human brain.
attacks on the painting. Most recently, in
August 2009, a woman angry over being This iconography was later seen in the
denied French citizenship threw red paint movie “ET”!
onto the case holding the painting.
2. Holy Family
3. Last Supper:
This Holy Family painting by Michelangelo is
The Last Supper is one of Leonardo’s most often referred to as the Doni Tondo, named
impressive works. The condition of this for its patron. The painting was
painting is quite frail, as he experimented commissioned by Agnolo Doni to
quite drastically with the mediums he used. commemorate his marriage to Maddalena
Instead of painting onto a wet plaster wall Strozzi, and “tondo” refers to the round
with tempera paint as in a true “fresco”, frame. The painting was influenced by
Leonardo painted onto a dry wall. The Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child
painting soon began to deteriorate just a with St. Anne.
few years after he finished the painting.
The figures of the Holy Family foreshadow
The painting depicts the 12 disciples of the look of the Sistine Chapel frescoes;
Jesus in a stark architectural setting, during Michelangelo employs the use of bright
their “last supper” in which Jesus informs colors and massive, sculptural figures
them that one of them will soon betray him. responsible for giving his paintings such
monumental qualities. This is true even for symbolically linked to the “Holy Trinity”.
Mary, yet is due to Michelangelo's use of Mary's pose is traditionally known as
male models even for female figures. “contrapposto”, which was an important
development in art during the Renaissance.
Michelangelo also utilized “cangiante”, a Essentially, it describes a body in a twisting
technique used for shading form through movement, or with the figure's weight
using entirely different colors at times shifted.
instead of a lighter or darker shade of the
same color. By using this method, The peaceful and hazy background
Michelangelo could create darker shadows landscape shows the influence of Leonardo
and lighter highlights without being da Vinci on Raphael, as this background
constrained by the limits of a particular hue. recalls landscapes such as that in the Mona
Lisa.
3. The Libyan Sibyl

The Libyan Sibyl is another fresco from the 2. Marriage of the Virgin
Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, and is part
Marriage of the Virgin, an influential
of a series of Sibyls which depict famous
perspective painting by Raphael, shows
women that are said to have prophesied
Mary and Joseph's marriage. Joseph is
the birth of Christ. The Libyan Sibyl is turned
placing a ring on Mary's finger, while Mary's
away from the viewer, increasing even
further her sense of mystery and power. other suitors are shown breaking their
staffs (Joseph's staff is blossoming).
Again, the Libyan Sibyl figure has large,
Directly behind the marriage scene is a
masculine muscles from the use of male
round temple centrally placed in the
models. Also, there is the need for the
background, with the tiles of the pavement
figure to look momentous from ground as
showing the receding perspective lines of
some impact of the painting is lost from the
the painting. The viewer can see through
distance. This is also the reason for the
the open door of the temple to the open
particularly bright colors of the painting;
landscape in the background.
some impact and richness of the hues are
lost in the distance from the viewer on the The composition is reminiscent of
ground Perugino's Christ Delivering the Keys to St.
Peter, which was painted for the Sistine
Raphael’s 3 Most Famous Paintings: Chapel in the Vatican to accompany
Michelangelo's series. However, critics have
1. Madonna of the Meadow argued that Raphael's technical skills in
portraying perspective exceed those of
Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow shows
Perugino, as Raphael effectively shows the
three figures; Mary, baby Jesus, and a baby
figures gradually diminshing in size to show
St. John in a traditional triangular
their distance. In his painting, Perugino
composition, and are linked through touch
portrays the figures in limited planes of
and their gazes. It is important to note that
distance.
in this triangular composition, the three are

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