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Honors World History
Renaissance Art Analysis
Mr. Soff
Pick one work from each of the following Renaissance artists and explain the symbolism contained within the example
you chose. Begin your analysis with where each master primarily identified themselves (Florence, Venice, Flanders, etc),
the years they lived, and who commissioned the project (and if possible, why). Then explain the symbolism of each
piece, the year(s) it was created, and commentary on whether the work primarily reflected religious, mythological, or
secular/humanistic themes. Conclude with the current location of each piece.
Each analysis should be a paragraph in length and you need to cite your sources.
This assignment is worth 20 points.
This list is not exhaustive…you are free to examine different artists and or works not listed below.
1. Leonardo da Vinci:
Mona Lisa
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
The Annunciation
The Last Supper
Madonna of the Rocks
2. Botticelli:
The Birth of Venus
Primavera
Venus and Mars
The Mystical Nativity
(Dante’s) Inferno, Canto XVIII
3. Michelangelo:
The Creation of Man
The Deluge (or Great Flood)
The Last Judgment
4. Raphael:
The School of Athens
Woman with a Unicorn
St. George and the Dragon
Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the Meadow)
The Three Graces
5. Titian:
Diana and Actaeon
Sacred and Profane Love
Bacchus and Ariadne
The Three Ages of Man
6. Jan van Eyck:
The Arnolfini Marriage
St. Jerome in His Study
Ghent Altarpiece (Adoration of the Mystic Lamb)
The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin
7. Bruegel:
Proverbs
The Tower of Babel
8. Durer:
Melancholia
Four Riders (or Horsemen) of the Apocalypse
Knight, Death, and Devil