The use of science and mathematics to create graceful art in the Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1437, From the collection of: Städel Museum
The composition of this painting by van Eyck is beautiful because it moves with a triangular form. The flow of the fabric from her dress creates a realistic movement that widens at the base.
Madonna and Child with a Male Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and a Donor, Michelangelo di Pietro Membrini, about 1496, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
The composition of this paiting draws the eye of the audience in a clockwise motion, which almost has a storytelling affect about it.
Annunciation, Leonardo da Vinci, Around 1472, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
The birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1483 - 1485, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
Adoration of the Magi, Botticelli Filipepi, 1475, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
The Alba Madonna, Raphael, c. 1510, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Les Trois Grâces, Raphaël, 1503/1508, From the collection of: Château de Chantilly
Saint George and the Dragon, Raphael, c. 1506, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The adolescent Bacchus, Caravaggio Merisi, 1595 - 1597, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
Martha and Mary Magdalene, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1598, From the collection of: Detroit Institute of Arts
The Death of Actaeon, Titian, about 1559-75, From the collection of: The National Gallery, London
Venus of Urbino, Tiziano Vecellio, 1538, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
Venus and Adonis, Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1610, From the collection of: Kunstpalast
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