In chapter 22, we cover the High and Late Renaissance within the time period of the 1495 through the 1600’s. Which really included some of the most famous artists and paintings still known to man today. The artists that are still most famous today for their work done back then are Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. Other artists and notables we learned about in this chapter include Titian, Palladio, Vasari, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bronzino, Parmigianino and Sofonisba Anguissola. Let’s start from the period 1495. Leonardo da Vinci, also known as “The Renaissance Man.” He wasn’t just an artist he was infatuated with learning. His curiosity is noted in his sketchbooks dealing with subjects of geology, zoology, anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics and so much more. Leonardo states himself that his scientific investigations made him a better painter. Leonardo believed in reality in an absolute sense is inaccessible and humans can know it only through its changing images. This making sense because he also believed that the eyes, were the most important organs with sight being the more essential function. With eyes, individuals can grasp reality most directly and profoundly. Leonardo’s most recognized paintings in this era were Madonna of the Rocks, Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John, Vitruvian Man, Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. From the Madonna of the Rocks painting, Leonardo, presented the figures in a pyramidal grouping where they also share the same environment. This created a unified atmospheric setting that was taught by his scientific curiosity that created a new medium of oil painting. His robust style is shown in the Last Supper as well as the Mona Lisa, which is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Using chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective in most of his art work this portrait is a prime example of sfumato (misty-haziness). The Mona Lisa has received tons of attention because of many reasons. One, being the controversy of who is actually in the painting and two, the fact that the woman is looking directly at the viewer. This is something this time period is not used to seeing, especially a secular painting. A painter strongly influenced by Perugino, Leonardo and others was Raphael. Raphael was sent to work by Julius II. Raphael’s style was all about foreshortening and of the perspective system he learned from Perugino. Some of Raphael’s greatest works included, Madonna in the Meadow, Marriage of the Virgin, Philosophy (School of Athens), Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi, Baldassare Castiglione and Galatea. Raphael painted so many things under the Pope and the Medici family, which brou