Browsing: High Renaissance

Mary and Joseph exchange a ring before a priest as witnesses, rejected suitors, an open square, and a central temple establish sacred order.

Saint Anne embraces Mary and the Christ Child as his movement toward the lamb connects familial tenderness with sacrifice and destiny.

Christ falls beneath the Cross as Mary reaches toward him and the surrounding soldiers transform the road to Calvary into a scene of suffering and coercion.

The Virgin rises above the apostles upon clouds and angels toward God within a monumental field of golden light.

God points from the clouds as Adam and Eve leave Paradise through a calm but irreversible landscape.

Adam and Eve move from creation to temptation and expulsion within a continuous panoramic landscape.

Christ rises in divine light above while a distressed crowd gathers around an ill child below.

Plato, Aristotle, and numerous philosophers gather within a monumental architectural space devoted to debate, knowledge, measurement, and intellectual exchange.

The young St. John the Baptist points upward while holding a cross-staff before a dark rock and open landscape.

A young woman turns away from the viewer while holding a pale ermine within a dark and silent pictorial space.