History of Western art (Medieval) (Theory)

Byzantine Art: Art and architecture-Church St. Vitale Ravenna (Mosaics: Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, Empress Theodora and her Attendants), Hagia Sophia Istanbul, St. Mark’s Church.

Iconoclasts and Iconophiles

Romanesque Art: Sculpture, Painting, Architecture: St Remi Church, Reims (1049) France, Notre-Dame, Paray-le-Monial (1090) France, The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun

Gothic Architecture: Architect Abbot Suger, General characteristics and components of Churches and Cathedral (Stained glass windows, Choir, Pulpits, Altarpieces)

Gothic Sculptures– Jamb Statues of Chartres Cathedral, Death of Virgin in Strasbourg Cathedral, Annunciation and Visitation in Reims Cathedral, The Virgin of Paris Notre- Dame, The Kiss of Judas and Crucifixion in Naumburg Cathedral, The Pieta

Gothic paintings

The Early Renaissance artists and their works

• Cimabue (Crucifixion and a Deposition, Madonna of Santa Trinita, the Madonna and Christ Child, the Flagellation of Jesus, the Virgin and Child) 

• Giotto (Decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua and the  Basilica of St Francis of Assisi-the Life of St. Francis, Marriage at Cana, The Annunciation, The Last Judgment, The Mourning of Christ, Bardi Chapel: The Mourning of St. Francis. The Kiss of Judas) 

• Duccio (Madonna and Child enthroned, Annunciation of the death of Virgin, Christ entering into Jerusalem)

• Donatello Tomb of Antipope John XXIII, Beardless Prophet, Bearded Prophet (both from 1415), the Sacrifice of Isaac (1421), Habakuk (1423-1425), Madonna Pazi, Statue of St. George, Statue of St. John the Baptis, Equestrian monument of Gattamelata), David

• Masaccio (Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Holy Trinity, The Tribute Money, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, portraying St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist) 

• Brunelleschi

The High Renaissance: Painters, Sculptors, Architects and their works

• Leonardo Da Vinci (The Christ, The Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvius Man, The Adoration of the Magi, The Virgin of the Rocks, The Annunciation)

• Michelangelo (The Biblical description on Sistine Chapel and the Fresco technique, The Last Judgment, The Pieta, David, the Moses) 

• Bramante (Architect)- Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Santa Maria delle Grazie

• Titian (A fresco of Hercules, Virgin and Child, fresco of Assunta, (The Venus of Urbino , The Rape of Europa The Allegory of Age Governed by Prudence)

• Giorgione (The Tempest, Sleeping Venus, Castelfranco Madonna, The Three Philosophers, The Allendale Nativity/Adoration of the Shepherds, The Test of Fire of Moses, The Judgment of Salomon )

• Raphael (Drawings, The School of Athens, Mond Crucifixion, Brera Wedding of the Virgin, Coronation of the Virgin, Saint George and the Dragon, The Madonna of the Meadow, Deposition of Christ