Western Studies
Ms. Portman

Go to Artchive, and find the paintings listed below. When you have taken some time to examine the paintings, answer the following questions.

1. How is the human body portrayed in these works of art?

2. How do the works of the Italian Renaissance differ from the Northern Renaissance?

3. Find another painting on the Artchive website from another period in time, and contrast that painting with works from the Renaissance. What aspects are different and what is your theory as to why they are different?

Botticelli, Sandro
The birth of Venus
c. 1485
Tempera on canvas
172.5 x 278.5 cm (67 7/8 x 109 5/8 in.)
Uffizi, Florence

DONATELLO
David
c. 1444-46
Bronze
Height 158 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

MICHELANGELO
David
c. 1501-1504
Marble
Height 410 cm (13 1/2 ft)
Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence

MICHELANGELO
Sistine Chapel

LEONARDO da Vinci
Muscles of the neck and shoulders
c. 1515
Pen and ink, black chalk, wash
29.2 cm (11 1/2 in) high
Anatomical Studies, fol. 137v
Windsor Castle, the Royal Library

LEONARDO da Vinci
Study of proportions
from Vitruvius's De Architectura
Pen and ink
34.3 x 24.5 cm (13 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
Accademia, Venice
RAPHAEL
Madonna and Child Enthroned, with Saints
1504-05
Tempera, oil, and gold on wood
Main panel 66 7/8 x 67 7/8 in. (169.9 x 172.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bruegel, Pieter
The Tower of Babel
1563
Oil on oak panel
114 x 155 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna

DURER, Albrecht
Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman
1505
Oil on panel
33 x 25 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

van Eyck, Jan
The betrothal of the Arnolfini
1434
Oil on wood
81.8 x 59.7 cm (32 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
National Gallery, London

VAN EYCK, Jan
The Crucifixion and The Last Judgment
1425-30
Oil on canvas transferred from wood
Each panel 22 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (56.5 x 19.7 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York