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the 1500s
The High Renaissance
The all-time heavyweights: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, all at once.
🔍 How to spot it
Three giveaways that tell you what you're looking at — even for a painting
you've never seen. Each detail below is magnified from the work named beside it.
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Pyramid composition. Figures group into a stable triangle. Everything feels balanced and unhurried.
detail from The Last Supper — Leonardo da Vinci
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Sfumato. Edges dissolve in soft smoke — no hard outline anywhere on flesh, especially around eyes and mouth.
detail from Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci
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Idealised bodies. Nobody is ordinary. Anatomy is perfected toward Greek sculpture.
detail from The Creation of Adam — Michelangelo
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💡 Calm pyramids, smoky edges and idealised anatomy — everything perfectly, deliberately balanced.
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The works
6 paintings in this chapter.
