CAS AH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Santa Maria Delle Grazie (Milan), Donato Bramante, San Pietro In Montorio

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 112
• Professor: Fred Kleiner

Document Summary

Leonardo da vinci, madonna of the rocks, ca. 1485 all. Leonardo demonstrated the oil painter"s ability to represent the figures sharing the same light-infused environment, something impossible to achieve in sculpture. Leonardo da vinci, last supper, ca. 1495-8, refectory, santa maria delle grazie, He is both the psychological focus of leonardo"s fresco and the focal point of all the converging perspective lines. Leonardo"s skill with chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective is on display in this new kind of portrait depicting the sitter as an individual personality who engages the viewer psychologically. Raphael demonstrated his mastery of foreshortening and of the perspective system he learned from perugino. Contemporaries celebrated bramante as the first architect to revive the classical style. Roman temples inspired his little temple, but bramante combined the classical parts in new ways. Christoforo foppa caradossa, medal showing bramante"s design for the new st.