This chapter explores Fifteenth Century Renaissance art in Italy, which includes architecture, painting, sculpture, reliquaries and graphic arts. This time period leads us into the High Renaissance in Europe. NOTE: Be prepared for some REVIEW QUESTIONS on the Chapter Test. TOPIC: ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT We will be studying the Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy as our next topic. Feel free to scan the pages in that section and take some notes in order to get a head start.
TERMS: Linear perspective (593), condotierri (594), module (597), pietra serena (600), impost block (600), palazzo (600), rusticated (600), orthogonal (608), vanishing point (608), aedicula (609), trompe-l oeil (617), intarsia (617), allegory (625) Tabernacle: Treatise: Tableau (622): holy residence : an ornamental locked box used for preserving the Communion hosts and other sacred objects formal explanation a subject, longer and more detailed than an essay A picturesque arrangement of figures in a scene CONCEPTS TO KNOW: Map Identification for READING QUIZ 50 (595): THERE WILL BE NO WORD BANK ON THE QUIZ Seas: Cities: Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea Genoa, Milan, Venice, Mantua, Florence, Urbino, Siena, Rome Know the major families of influence in fifteenth century Italy and the cities they controlled (594) Medici, Montefeltro, Gonzaga, Visconti and Sforza, and Este (READING QUIZ 50) Know how Petrarch viewed/classified the period of 1,000 years prior to his own time (594) Know the basic concepts of the Neo-Platonists (594) Read Technique: Renaissance Perspective (608) Understand how Perugino s Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter supports papal authority (discussion) Know about Sandro Botticelli s profound spiritual crisis and how it affected his art (625) LECTURE SLIDES: TITLE LOCATION/ARTIST YEAR Fifteenth-Century Italy Line Art Niccolò da Tolentino Leading Charge (Battle San Romano) Paolo Uccello 1438-1440 COMPARE: Perugino s Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter with Rogier van der Weyden s Deposition Florence Cathedral* Italy 1420-1436 Schematic Drawing of Florence Cathedral (and baptistery) Line Art 1420-1436 Florence Cathedral dome Vasari and Zuccari 1572-1579 Florence Cathedral (view from inside the dome) Italy 1420-1436 Plan of Church of San Lorenzo, Florence Filippo Brunelleschi 1421-1428
Church of San Lorenzo, Florence (interior)* Filippo Brunelleschi 1421-1428 Old Sacristy, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence Filippo Brunelleschi 1421-1428 Laurentian Library, Florence Michelangelo begun 1525 Church of San Lorenzo, Florence (exterior) Filippo Brunelleschi 1421-1428 Foundling Hospital, Florence* Filippo Brunelleschi 1421-1444 Infant in Swaddling Clothes, Foundling Hospital, Florence* Andrea Della Robbia 1487 Madonna and Child, Orsanmichele, Florence Lucca della Robbia 1460 Façade of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence* Michelozzo di Bartolomeo 1446 Courtyard of Medici-Riccardi, Florence Michelozzo di Bartolomeo 1446 ADJACENT: Piazza della Signoria with Loggia Florence 1299-1310 Sacrifice of Isaac, east doors, Baptistery of San Giovanni* Filippo Brunelleschi 1401-1402 Sacrifice of Isaac, east doors, Baptistery of San Giovanni* Lorenzo Ghiberti 1401-1402 Orsanmichele, Florence (exterior)* begun in 1337 Plan of Orsanmichele, Florence begun in 1337 The Four Crowned Martyrs, Orsanmichele, Florence* Nanni di Banco 1409-1417 Saint George, Orsanmichele, Florence* Donatello 1417-1420 Saint Mark, Orsanmichele, Florence Donatello 1411-1413 Virgin and Child, Orsanmichele, Florence Simone di Ferrucci 1399 Doubting of Thomas, Orsanmichele, Florence Verrocchio 1467-1483 Orsanmichele, Florence (interior) begun in 1337 Tabernacle, Orsanmichele, Florence Andrea Orcagna 1355-1359 David* Donatello 1446-1460 Equestrian Statue of Erasmo da Narni (Gattamelata) Donatello 1443-1453 REMEMBER: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius Roman High Imperial 176 CE Mary Magdalene Donatello 1450s Equestrian Monument of Bartolommeo Colleoni Andrea del Verrocchio 1490 Street sign near Equestrian Monument of B. Colleoni Venice David Andrea del Verrocchio 1470 Gates of Paradise, east doors, Baptistery of San Giovanni* Lorenzo Ghiberti 1425-1452 REMEMBER: Life of John the Baptist, south doors Andrea Pisano 1330-1336 Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence (exterior) modern photograph 1330-1336
Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence (interior) modern photograph 1330-1336 Jacob and Esau** Lorenzo Ghiberti 1435 Additional images of east doors, Baptistery of San Giovanni Hercules and Antaeus* Antonio del Pollaiuolo 1475 The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter, Sistine Chapel* Pietro Perugino 1481 Schematic Drawing of The Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter Line Art The Battle of the Nudes Antonio del Pollaiuolo 1465-1470 Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist,& Donors* Masaccio 1425-1428 Section Diagram of Illusionistic World depicted in Trinity Line Art Church of Santa Maria Novella Florence 1425-1428 Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Flor. Masaccio 1426-1427 Expulsion of Adam & Eve from Paradise, Brancacci Chapel* Masaccio 1427 The Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel* Masaccio 1427 Annunciation, monastery of San Marco, Florence* Fra Angelico 1438-1445 Niccolò da Tolentino Leading Charge (Battle San Romano) Paolo Uccello 1438-1440 Battle of San Romano (another of the 3 separate panels) Paolo Uccello 1440 The Last Supper, refectory,convent of Sant Apollonia, Flor. Andrea del Castagno 1447 Portrait of a Woman and Man Fra Filippo Lippi 1435-1445 Courtyard, Ducal Palace, Urbino* Luciano Laurana 1467-72 Cassone of Lorenzo Di Matteo Morelli/Vaggia Di Tanai Nerli Jacabo del Sellaio, etc. 1472 Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, Ducal Palace, Urbino Giuliano de Maiano 1476 COMPARE: Small Cowper Madonna Raphael 1505 Baptism of Christ Piero della Francesca 1450 Recognition and Proving of the True Cross Piero della Francesca 1450s Battista Sforza and Federico de Montefeltro Piero della Francesca 1474 Battista Sforza Piero della Francesca 1474 Federico de Montefeltro Piero della Francesca 1474 Triumph of Federico and Battista Piero della Francesca 1474 Camera Picta, Ducal Palace, Mantua* Andrea Mantegna 1465-1474 The Dead Christ Andrea Mantegna 1490 View of the Sistine Chapel, paintings commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV 1480-1482
The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter, Sistine Chapel* Pietro Perugino 1481 Crucifixion with Saints Pietro Perugino 1480s Scenes from Life of Saint Francis, Sassetti Chapel Domenico Ghirlandaio 1483-1486 Nativity and Adoration of Shepherds, Sassetti altarpiece Domenico Ghirlandaio 1485 COMPARE TO: Portinari Altarpiece (open) Hugo van der Goes 1474-1476 Birth of Venus* Sandro Botticelli 1484-86 COMPARE TO: Aphrodite of Knidos Praxiteles/Hellenistic Greek 350 BCE Primavera* Sandro Botticelli 1482 Venus and Mars Sandro Botticelli 1483 Portrait of a Youth Sandro Botticelli 1480 Fra Girolamo Savonarola (lived 1452-1498) Virgin and Child with Angel Sandro Botticelli 1475-1476 Mystic Nativity Sandro Botticelli 1500 REMEMBER: Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice, 1063 Ca d Oro (Contarini Palace) Venice 1421-1437 Additional images of Venice Procession of Relic of True Cross Before St. Mark s, Venice Gentile Bellini 1496 Virgin and Child Enthroned with SS. Francis, etc. Giovanni Bellini 1478 Saint Francis in Ecstasy* Giovanni Bellini 1470s *possibly a slide identification question. Know the title and location/artist. **Know the title, artist and YEAR.