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The Phenomenon of Italian Renaissance Art

Mona Lisa. David. Vitruvian Man. Creation of Adam. These and other Renaissance masterpieces are extremely well-recognized five hundred years later...but how? This blog investigates how Renaissance works moved from an "individual for an individual" case to an "individual for all" case, and elsewhere in between.

1) About the Author: Sabrina Gismondi

Name: Sabrina Gismondi

Home University: Queen's University
Program: Commerce

Status: Exchange

Hometown: Toronto, Canada

Nationality: Italian/Canadian

Favorite Renissance work:
Primavera, Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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1) About the Author: Sabrina Gismondi
2) Introduction: "Learning never exhausts the mind...
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4) A Note on Giorgio Vasari
5) Bibliography

The workshop is filled with master craftsmen, sculpting from the same marble that Michelangelo used

The workshop is filled with master craftsmen, sculpting from the same marble that Michelangelo used

Upstairs in Cervietti's workshop - a veritable museum of plaster casts.

Upstairs in Cervietti's workshop - a veritable museum of plaster casts.

Cervietti marble sculptures are created by duplicating measurements from plaster casts.

Cervietti marble sculptures are created by duplicating measurements from plaster casts.

Another Duchamp Variation

Another Duchamp Variation

Audience Viewing the Duchamp Mona Lisa

Audience Viewing the Duchamp Mona Lisa

Dada Movement: Anti-Art

Dada Movement: Anti-Art

Lee's Mona Lisa Chair

Lee's Mona Lisa Chair

Tania Ledger, commissioner of the Mona Lisa Grass

Tania Ledger, commissioner of the Mona Lisa Grass

Chris Naylor, designer of the Mona Lisa grass

Chris Naylor, designer of the Mona Lisa grass

A tan of the Mona Lisa

A tan of the Mona Lisa

Another Mona Lisa Tattoo

Another Mona Lisa Tattoo

Mona Lisa PC Motherboard

Mona Lisa PC Motherboard

Detail of the Motherboard

Detail of the Motherboard

Mona Lisa made from Lego

Mona Lisa made from Lego

A Mona Lisa Cappuccino

A Mona Lisa Cappuccino

Detail: Mona Lisa made from Coffee

Detail: Mona Lisa made from Coffee

Finished Product: Mona Lisa Made from Coffee

Finished Product: Mona Lisa Made from Coffee

Creators of the Mona Lisa Coffee Art

Creators of the Mona Lisa Coffee Art

Crowds viewing the Mona Lisa

Crowds viewing the Mona Lisa

Taking pictures of the Mona Lisa

Taking pictures of the Mona Lisa

Crowd standing before the Mona Lisa at the Louvre

Crowd standing before the Mona Lisa at the Louvre

Students viewing the Mona Lisa

Students viewing the Mona Lisa

Vacant wall when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911

Vacant wall when the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911

Mona Lisa Souvenirs from the Louvre

Mona Lisa Souvenirs from the Louvre

Movie entited "Mona Lisa Smile"

Movie entited "Mona Lisa Smile"

Salone dei Cinquecento, Florence, Palazzo Vecchio

Salone dei Cinquecento, Florence, Palazzo Vecchio

Georgio Vasari on the comission for "The Last Supper"

Georgio Vasari on the comission for "The Last Supper"

"He also painted in Milan, for the Friars of S. Dominic, at St. Maria delle Grazie, a Last Supper, a most beautiful and marvellous thing."

Giorgio Vasari on the comission for the "Portrait of Ginevra Benci"

Giorgio Vasari on the comission for the "Portrait of Ginevra Benci"

"He made a portrait for Ginevra Benci, a very beautiful work."

Giorgio Vasari on the comission for "The Mona Lisa"

Giorgio Vasari on the comission for "The Mona Lisa"

"Leonardo undertook to execute, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."

Giorgio Vasari on the Comission of the "Pieta"

Giorgio Vasari on the Comission of the "Pieta"

"The French cardinal of St. Denis commissioned Michelangelo to make a Pieta of marble in the round, and this was placed in the chapel of the Madonna della Febbre in St Peter's."

Giorgio Vasari on the "Marriage of the Virgin"

Giorgio Vasari on the "Marriage of the Virgin"

"For the church of San Francesco in the same city he painted a small panel picture of the Marriage of Our Lady...This painting contains a temple in perspective drawn with great care and devotion and showing what amazingly difficult problems Raphael was ready to tackle."

Giorgio Vasari on "The Assumption of the Virgin"

Giorgio Vasari on "The Assumption of the Virgin"

"For the church of the Frari Titian painted an altarpiece for the high altar showing Our Lady ascending into heaven and below her are the twelve apostles who are watching as she ascends."

Study of a Tuscan Landscape c. 1473

Study of a Tuscan Landscape c. 1473

Design for a Flying Machine c. 1488

Design for a Flying Machine c. 1488

Study of a Figure for the Battle of Anghiari c. 1503

Study of a Figure for the Battle of Anghiari c. 1503

Studies of Water c. 1508-09

Studies of Water c. 1508-09

Study for the Head of Leda c. 1505-7

Study for the Head of Leda c. 1505-7

Views of a Fetus in the Womb c. 1510-12

Views of a Fetus in the Womb c. 1510-12