THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY, c. 1500–c. 1550 Columbus sails in search of a new route to India (1492)
The ideal of the circle: Vitruvian Man
Bramante: the Tempietto
Leonardo: Mona Lisa; Last Supper
Papal patronage
Julius II (pope 1503–1513)
New Saint Peter's; Sistine Ceiling (Michelangelo)
Stanza della Segnatura (Raphael)
Leo X (pope 1513–1521)
Pope Paul III: Michelangelo's Last Judgment
Michelangelo in Florence: The Laurentian Library
The myth of Venice
Venetian painters: the Bellini; Giorgione; Titian
Controversy: painting versus sculpture; color versus drawing
Charles V invades Italy (1527)