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Laura de Noves became the inspiration for 366 Love Songs and a whole tradition of European poetry. The "Father of the Renaissance" struggled with issues which were to frame the course of Humanism for centuries and inspire countless generations of scholars.
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Albrecht Durer's depiction of the Apocalypse creates a sense of rapidly approaching danger. It is part of a set of 15 woodcuts that he did depicting the Apocalyspse. The 4 Horsemen represent Death, Famine, War and Plague. This series brought him fame across Europe. It was published in Nuremburg in German (and Latin).
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Luca Signorelli paints a massive series of frescoes in a chapel of the Cathedral of Orvieto detailing the Apocalyspe. They influenced Michelangelo's work on his Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
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Reveals how seriously Germans were taking personal piety and very indicative of the coming Reformation.
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This was the starting date for the construction of this massive edifice which would take 120 years to complete.
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A gigantic fresco depicting the great minds of philosophy, part of a set of 4 he painted in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican and considered his masterpiece.
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The Praise of Folly was printed in 1511 and became an overnight best seller. The illustrated version by Hans Holbein was published in 1515. This portrait of Erasmus is by Holbein.
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The central image of the magnificent ceiling is the Creation of Adam. The overall scheme suggests that Michelangelo painted the grand sculptured tomb that Pope Julius wanted but couldn't make happen.
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Michelangelo depicts Pope Julius II as Moses, for his tomb. The moment is filled with drama, Moses enraged by his people's idol-worship has destroyed the tablets of the 10 commandments, he has asked God to forgive them and to rewrite the Covenant on a new set of tablets which he holds tightly as he awaits the Creator's response.
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Pope Julius II, painted here by Raphael, dies.
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Created for a hospital for leprosy and skin diseases in the Abbey of St. Anthony in Isenheim,the image shows the Christ suffering in all his humanity.
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An illustration from Erasmus's dialogue of the same name. The drunken Julius tries to get into heaven using the key to his secret money-box. St. Peter, though a simple, fisherman says that he can only allow in those who have fed the hungry, clothed the naked, tended the sick. He tells him to go build his own heaven.
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An engraving by Albrecht Durer, one of 3, used to illustrate an edition of Erasmus' Handbook for a Christian Knight, one of his most influential works. The figure of St. Jerome is often seen to be a depiction of Erasmus.
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Fresco in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. Shows the new pope Leo X, a Medici, as a miracle worker and man of peace.
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He pounded in his 95 theses
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by Martin van Heemskerck, a Dutch artist from Delft
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Cranach's depiction of the Last Supper includes his friend Martin Luther, at a round table revealing the equality of all believers within the new faith of Lutheranism.
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Michelangelo creates this for the private chapel for the Pope.
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Lucas Cranach the Younger painted this more propagandist Protestant piece as a memorial to a Church leader in Wittenberg.
