This presentation illustrates how artists began to observe animals and draw them from nature in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

1. Animals in Renaissance Art:
Observing Nature
15th-16th Centuries

2. St. Jerome in His Studio
Antonello da Messina, 1475

3. Martin Schongauer, c. 1485

4. Leonardo da Vinci
c. 1490-1505

5. Study of Horses, c. 1490

6. Rearing Horse, 1503

7. Study of Horses, c. 1505

9. Albrecht Durer
c. 1494-1528

10. Lion, 1494

11. St. Eustache, c. 1501

16. Young Hare, 1502

17. The Little Owl, 1506

18. Dead Bluebird, 1512

19. Stork, 1515

21. Rhino, 1515

22. Walrus, 1521

23. Pisanello
1420s-40s

24. Vision of St. Eustache, 1438

40. Hans Hoffmann
Late 16th Century

43. Ulisse Androvandi
Late 16th Century

44. Blackbuck

45. Mountain Coati

46. Red Hartebeest and Mountain Coati

47. Gallus Turcicus

48. Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Late 16th Century

49. Indian Mongoose

50. Red-Flanked Dulker (Antelope)

51. Blue-Headed Quail Dove

52. Lesser Kestrel