1400 – 1500
Renaissance in Italy & the North

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Robert Campin The Merode Altarpiece Jan van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed) Ghent Altarpiece (open) Petrus Christus Portrait of a Carthusian Rogier van der Weyden Deposition The Last Judgment Unknown The Unicorn in Captivity
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On Linear Perspective & Filippo Brunelleschi How Brunelleschi "Discovered" Linear Perspective Applications of Linear Perspective in the Renaissance Brunelleschi & Ghiberti The Sacrifice of Isaac Donatello David Masaccio The Tribute Money Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and Child with Angels Madonna and Child Man and Woman at a Casement Piero della Francesco Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and Portrait of Battista Sforza Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus
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Bellini Saint Francis in Ecstacy Carlo Crivelli Madonna and Child Enthroned Andrea Mantegna Dead Christ St. Sebastian Camera degli Sposi

Botticelli's Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas, c. 1482 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Chad Laird

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Linda Baehr wrote on Monday, February 08, 2010

Thank you very much. I enjoyed the comparisons of other works of art and the historical backround.

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