Renaissance 3

A visual and interactive history of the Italian Renaissance: Part 3.
According to many scholars the short period between 1490 and 1520, known as High Renaissance, was the climax of this style. This is the age of: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Bramante, Raphael and Titian. Great humanist Popes, although politically and ethically controversial, such as Alexander VI Borgia, Julius II Della Rovere and Leo X de Medici, turned Rome into the new capital of the Renaissance calling the best artists of the moment to build the new St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. We’ll visit, among other places, Raphael and Peruzzi’s masterpieces in Villa Farnesina, Bramante’s Cloister and Tempietto, and Michelangelo’s Moses. In the while, after the expulsion of the Medici, Florence shows its new Republican pride with Michelangelo’s David, Siena calls Michelangelo and Pinturicchio to update its cathedral and Venice becomes a new center of the humanist culture thanks to its incredible printing industry that attires people such as Leonardo da Vinci and its new art scene that includes painters such as Bellini, Giorgione and Titian.