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Renaissance art developed in Italy during the 14th century and spread across Europe between the 15th and 16th centuries. The word Renaissance means “rebirth,” referring to a renewed interest in the knowledge,…
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Renaissance paintings: the guide
The Renaissance, the “rebirth”, began in Florence in the early 1400s and spread across Europe over the next two centuries. Painters rediscovered the art and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome, learned to build convincing space with linear perspective, and studied anatomy, light and the human face as never before. Rich patrons like the Medici and the popes paid for it all. Around 1500 Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael took painting to a height it has been measured against ever since, while in Venice Titian made colour the subject, and in Flanders van Eyck, Bosch and Bruegel built a Northern Renaissance of their own with oil paint.
The most famous Renaissance paintings
Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (about 1503 to 1519)
Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine silk merchant, with the most discussed smile in the world. It only became world famous after it was stolen in 1911. Louvre, Paris. Read the story.
The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci (1495 to 1498)
The moment Christ says one of the twelve will betray him, and every apostle reacts. Painted on a refectory wall in Milan, it began to flake within Leonardo’s lifetime. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Read the story.
The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli (about 1485)
The goddess arrives on a shell, blown ashore by the winds. One of the first large paintings of a pagan myth since antiquity. Uffizi, Florence. Read the story.
Primavera, Sandro Botticelli (about 1480)
Venus in an orange grove with the Three Graces, Flora and about 190 kinds of flowers. Uffizi, Florence. Read the story.
The School of Athens, Raphael (1509 to 1511)
Plato and Aristotle at the centre of a great hall of ancient philosophers, many of them portraits of Raphael’s contemporaries. Vatican. Read the story.
The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo (about 1511)
Two hands almost touching on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Read the story.
Lady with an Ermine, Leonardo da Vinci (about 1489 to 1491)
Cecilia Gallerani turns with a white ermine in her arms, one of only four surviving portraits of women by Leonardo. Czartoryski Museum, Kraków. Read the story.
Venus of Urbino, Titian (1538)
A reclining nude looking straight at us, with a sleeping dog and two maids at a chest behind her. Manet answered it with Olympia. Uffizi, Florence. Read the story.
The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck (1434)
A merchant and his wife in their bedroom, with a convex mirror that reflects two more figures, one perhaps the painter himself. National Gallery, London. Read the story.
The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger (1533)
Two French envoys among globes and instruments, and across the floor a stretched shape that becomes a skull when seen from the side. National Gallery, London. Read the story.
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch (about 1490 to 1510)
Paradise, a garden of naked pleasure and a nightmarish hell, side by side on three panels. Prado, Madrid. Read the story.
The Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)
Hunters returning over a hill above a frozen valley, the masterpiece of the Northern Renaissance landscape. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Read the story.
The Wedding at Cana, Paolo Veronese (1563)
A Venetian banquet with more than a hundred guests, where Christ turns water into wine almost unnoticed. The largest painting in the Louvre, hanging opposite the Mona Lisa. Read the story.
The Isenheim Altarpiece, Matthias Grünewald (1512 to 1516)
Painted for a hospital that treated a terrible skin disease, it shows Christ covered in the same sores as the patients praying in front of him. Unterlinden Museum, Colmar. Read the story.
What makes a painting Renaissance?
- Linear perspective: lines that meet at a vanishing point, so a flat wall becomes a room.
- The human body studied from life and from ancient sculpture.
- Balance and harmony: calm, ordered compositions, often built on triangles.
- Classical myth alongside religious subjects, and the rise of the portrait.
- Oil paint, perfected in Flanders, allowing deep colour and fine detail.
Read more in our guides to famous Renaissance paintings and famous Renaissance artists, or visit the artist page for Michelangelo. Every Renaissance painting in our shop is in the public domain and can be ordered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas, in the size you choose.
