Feature Archive Thomas Hoving's personal choice of the Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization      A note about navigation: all external links open in a new window, and many of these spawn a second window if you click to enlarge an item. The High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance   Artist      Title of Work      Date      Medium Leonardo da Vinci Woman with an Ermine Czartoryski Museum, Kraków 1483-90 painting Sandro Botticelli La Primavera Galleria della Uffizi, Florence Detail images: Flower girl, fleeing girl 1485 painting Albrecht Durer Self-Portrait Pinakothek, Munich 1500 painting Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights Prado Museum, Madrid Detail images from the triptych... 1500 painting Michelangelo David Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence Additional views of the sculpture... 1501-04 sculpture Giorgione Madonna Enthroned Duomo, Castelfranco Veneto 1504 painting Riemenschneider Creglinge Altarpiece Herrgottskirche, Creglinge, Germany 1505-10 sculpture Carpaccio Saint George and the Dragon Scuola di S.Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice 1507 painting Aztec Montezuma's Headdress Museum of Ethnology, Vienna Replica of the headdress, from Tenochtitlan.com 16th C. feathers Matthias Grunewald Isenheim Altarpiece Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, Germany Additional images of the altarpiece... 1510-15 painting Raphael The Sistine Madonna Gemaldegalerie, Dresden Detail of those popular cherubs 1513 painting Correggio Jupiter and Io Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1532-33 painting Benvenuto Cellini The Great Saltcellar Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1540-43 sculpture Titian The Rape of Europa Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 1559-62 painting Pieter Bruegel The Procession to Calvary Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1564 painting Bibi Tribe, Benin Pendant Mask Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 16th C. ivory El Greco The Burial of Count Orgaz Church of Santo Tome, Toledo Detail images: The count, the pointing boy, upturned face, Greco's face among the mourners 1586 painting Nicholas Hilliard Portrait of a Dandy Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1587 painting Jump to: • Ancient Art Through the Classical Era • The Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance • The High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance • The Baroque and Rococo Eras • The Nineteenth Century • The Twentieth Century