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relation to Quattrocento
- In Quattrocento
  …harmonious balance achieved in the High Renaissance. In concrete terms, the Quattrocento is regarded as beginning in 1401 with a competition to design the east doors for the Baptistery in Florence and ending in 1503 with the election of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere as Pope Julius II. The Cinquecento delimits…
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Renaissance art
- In Renaissance: The High Renaissance
  High Renaissance art, which flourished for about 35 years, from the early 1490s to 1527, when Rome was sacked by imperial troops, revolved around three towering figures: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Michelangelo (1475–1564), and Raphael (1483–1520). Each
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- In Renaissance art
  High Renaissance art, which flourished for about 35 years, from the early 1490s to 1527, when Rome was sacked by imperial troops, revolves around three towering figures: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Michelangelo (1475–1564), and Raphael (1483–1520). Each of the three embodies an important aspect of…
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In Western architecture: High Renaissance in Italy (1495–1520)
High Renaissance architecture first appeared at Rome in the work of Bramante at the beginning of the 16th century. The period was a very brief one, centred almost exclusively in the city of Rome; it ended with the political and…
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Bramante
- In Donato Bramante
  …an architect who introduced the High Renaissance style in architecture. His early works in Milan included the rectory of Sant’Ambrogio and the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In Rome, Bramante served as principal planner of Pope Julius II’s comprehensive project for rebuilding the city. St. Peter’s Basilica, of which…
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Palladio
- In Andrea Palladio: Early life and works
  …of Michele Sanmicheli and the High Renaissance buildings of Jacopo Sansovino, whose library of St. Mark’s in Venice had been begun in 1536. He had probably been introduced in Padua to Alvise Cornaro, whose designs were the first to import the Roman Renaissance style to northern Italy. Palladio may also…
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Bartolommeo
- In Fra Bartolommeo
  …early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style.
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El Greco
- In El Greco: Early life and works
  …on an architectural setting in High Renaissance style are particularly significant in his early pictures, such as Christ Cleansing the Temple. The first evidence of El Greco’s extraordinary gifts as a portraitist appears in Italy in a portrait of Giulio Clovio and Vincentio Anastagi.
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Perugino
- In Perugino
  …Sistine Chapel in Rome) anticipated High Renaissance ideals in its compositional clarity, sense of spaciousness, and economy of formal elements.
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Raphael
- In Raphael
  …and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His School of Athens in the Stanza della Segnatura, a room in Pope Julius II’s private apartments in the Vatican, is perhaps the most famous of
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Mannerism
- In Mannerism
  … from the end of the High Renaissance in the 1520s to the beginnings of the Baroque style around 1590. The Mannerist style originated in Florence and Rome and spread to northern Italy and, ultimately, to much of central and northern Europe. The term was first used around the end of…
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murals
- In mural: The High Renaissance
  The High Renaissance is dominated by great individuals whose spectacular projects were often left unfinished or were completed by others. Leonardo da Vinci’s rich and universal genius is best demonstrated in the dramatic movement of figures and tensely psychological interpretation of content shown…
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sculpture