Listed below are all the readings that should be read in preparation for the midterm, along with all the image titles shown in lectures 2-5, and some specific terms that may appear on the 3 rd section of the midterm. Week 2 January 13 Artistic competition in early fifteenth-century Florence Campbell & Cole, pp. 50-64 and 72-82. Diane Finiello Zervas, "The Building and Decoration of Orsanmichele before Verrocchio," in Verrocchio's Christ and St. Thomas. A Masterpiece of Sculpture from Renaissance Florence, ed. Loretta Dolcini, exh. cat. New York, 1992, 39-51. [BB] IMAGES FROM POWERPOINT LECTURE 2 1. Florence Cathedral (Duomo, also Santa Maria del Fiore) and the Palazzo Vecchio 2. Siena Cathedral (Santa Maria della Scala) 3. Palazzo Pubblico 4. Dominican church of Santa Maria della Scala and the Spanish Chapel 5. Franciscan church of Santa Croce and the Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels by Giotto 6. Andrea Pisano, South Doors of the Florence Baptistery, 1330-36 7. Baptistery (San Giovanni), Florence; founded in the fourth century; then renovated in the eleventh and thirteenth centuries 8. Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1403, Florence, Bargello 9. Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1403, Florence, Bargello 10. Roman sarcophagus, 1 st century CE, (Opera del Duomo, Florence) 11. The Thorn Puller, 1st century BCE, Rome, Capitoline 12. Ghiberti, North Doors of the Florence Baptistery, 1416-19 13. Ghiberti, Baptism of Christ, from the North Doors of the Florence Baptistery, ca. 1416-19 14. Ghiberti, Christ Among the Doctors and The Flagellation, from the North Doors of the Florence Baptistery, ca. 1416-19 15. Lorenzo Ghiberti, East Doors of Baptistery (the Gates of Paradise ), 1425-1452 16. Florence, Orsanmichele exterior, north east corner (from Via Calzaiuoli, walking from Duomo to Palazzo Vecchio) (interior view also shown) 1/6
17. Andrea Orcagna, Tabernacle, begun ca. 1355; the tabernacle frames a miracle working image of the Virgin and Child repainted by Bernardo Daddi, ca. 1346-47 18. Manuscript illuminations showing the distribution of grain at Orsanmichele (early 15th C) and the distribution of grain outside the city walls during the famines of the 1330s) 19. Fresco (by Orcagna?) celebrating the defeat of the Duke of Athens by the Florentine troops on the feast day of St. Anne, 1343 20. Manuscript illumination showing patients suffering from the Black Death (of 1348) 21. Pietro di Giovanni Tedesco, Madonna of the Rose, 1399 Orsanmichele Made for the Doctors and Apothecaries Guild (one of only 3 statues made pre-1406) 22. Niccolo Lamberti, St. Luke, 1406, Florence Bargello, for the Judges and Notaries Guild 23. Nanni di Banco, St. Philip, Florence, Orsanmichele, ca. 1410-12 for the Shoemakers Guild 24. Lorenzo Ghiberti, St John the Baptist, for the Calimala (wool merchants) guild, Florence, Orsanmichele, ca. 1410 25. Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, Florence Orsanmichele for the Linen and Weavers Guild 26. Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, Niche of the Maestri di Pietra e Legname (Stonecarvers and Woodworkers Guild), ca. 1413-14, Florence, Orsanmichele 27. Donatello, St George, 1415-18, for the Armorers Guild, Florence, Bargello 28. Donatello, St George and the Dragon (SCHIACCIATO)=SQUASHED RELIEF 29. Donatello, St. Louis of Toulouse, Santa Croce, Florence, ca. 1423, commissioned by the Guelf Party for the east-side of Orsanmichele 30. Lorenzo Ghiberti, St Matthew, 1419-23, Arte del Cambio (Bankers Guild), Florence, Orsanmichele 31. Verrocchio. Christ and St. Thomas, made for the Merchant s Guild, replaced Donatello s St. Louis in the central niche on Via Calzaiuoli, 1467-1483 Week 3 January 20 Competitive spirit in fifteenth-century Rome: the case of the Sistine Chapel Campbell & Cole, pp. 275-80. 2
Giorgio Vasari, "Life of Botticelli," in Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, trans. Gaston Du Vere, London 1912-14, 3: pp. 247-54. [available online at: http://members.efn.org/~acd/vite/vasaribott.html ] Arnold Nesselrath, "The Painters of Lorenzo the Magnificent in the Chapel of Pope Sixtus IV in Rome," in The Fifteenth Century Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, Rome 2003, 39-75. [BB] 3/6 IMAGES FROM POWERPOINT LECTURE 3 32. Donatello, Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata (Erasmo de Narni),1447-53, Padua, Piazza del Santo 33. Verrocchio, Equestrian Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni height approx. 4 m. (without base), 1481-95, Venice, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo 34. Emperor Marcus Aurelius Equestrian Statue, 175 CE, Rome, Capitoline 35. Horses of St. Mark s, 101 CE, Venice, Marciano 36. The Regisole of Pavia, 3 rd century CE, (destroyed in the 18th C) 37. Bonino da Campione, Funeral Monument to Bernabo` Visconti, 1363 (now in of the Castello Sforzesca) 38. Monument to Cangrande della Scala, 1320s, Verona 39. Antonio Pollaiuolo s proposal for the equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, c.1481-82 40. Leonardo s studies for the equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, c.1482-93 41. Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Tomb of Pope Sixtus IV, 1484-93, Museo Storico Artistico, St. Peter s (Pollaiuolo worked for Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, future Pope Julius II) 42. Baccio Pontelli, (?), Sistine Chapel, 1477-81, Exterior View 43. Sistine Chapel, General view / Side wall / Detail of Anacletus, Third Pope 44. Leonardo s sketch of the hanged Pazzo conspirator, Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli, 1479 45. Bertoldo di Giovanni s medal of the Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478 46. Gustavo Tognetti, reconstruction drawing from 1899 of the appearance of the Sistine Chapel ca. 1483 30. Cosimo Rosselli, Adoration of the Golden Calf, south wall of Sistine Chapel, 1481-82, Vatican 31. Cosimo Rosselli, Christ s Sermon on the Mount, north wall of Sistine Chapel, 1481-82, Vatican 32. Perugino, The Circumcision of the Son of Moses, 1481-82, Sistine Chapel, Vatican 33. Pietro Perugino, The Baptism of Christ, 1481-82, Sistine Chapel, Vatican
34. Botticelli, Punishment of Korah and the Sons of Aaron, ca. 1481-2, Sistine Chapel, Vatican 35. Pietro Perugino, The Charge to St. Peter, 1481-82, Sistine Chapel, Vatican 36. Luca Signorelli, Testament and Death of Moses, 1482-3, Sistine Chapel, Vatican 37. Cosimo Rosselli, Last Supper, 1482-3, Sistine Chapel, Vatican 38. Leonardo, Last Supper, 1494-8, Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie 39. Michelangelo s scenes from the Book of Genesis, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512 commissioned by Julius II della Rovere) 40. Raphael -- cartoons for tapestries of the Acts of Sts. Peter and Paul, 1515-16, for the Sistine Chapel (commissioned by Leo X de Medici) 41. Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1537-41, altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (commissioned by Paul III Farnese) Week 4 January 27 Envy and Slander personified Campbell & Cole, pp. 258-64. David Cast, "The Beginnings, Alberti, Botticelli," in The Calumny of Apelles. A Study in the Humanist Tradition, New Haven and London, 1981, 29-54. [BB] Michael Jacobsen, The Meaning of Mantegna s Battle of Sea Monsters Art Bulletin 64.4 (1982): 623-9. [JStor] IMAGES FROM POWERPOINT LECTURE 4 42. Andrea del Castagno, Last Supper, 1445-50, Florence, Sant Apollonia 43. Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy Altarpiece, 1445-47, Florence, Uffizi 44. Botticelli, Calumny of Apelles, ca. 1497-98, cm. 63x91, Florence, Uffizi 45. Bartolomeo della Fonte, Calumny of Apelles, ca. 1470, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinet 46. Mantegna, Calumny of Apelles, ca. 1504, London, British 47. Girolamo Mocetto, Calumny of Apelles, 1506, London, British 48. Raphael, Calumny of Apelles, ca. 1504-1508 (?), London, British 49. Girolamo Savonarola, Observant Dominican friar and leader of Florentine government from 1494-1498 50. Piero de Medici, known as Piero the Unfortunate : exiled in 1994 51. Andrea Mantegna, Camera Picta, 1466-75, Mantua, Ducal Palace 52. Mantegna, The Triumphs of Caesar, ca. 1500, Hampton Court, Surrey 53. Andrea Mantegna, Battle of the Sea Monsters, ca. 1475, Washington, National Gallery 4
54. School of Mantegna, Virtue in Flames (Virtus Combusta), upper half and Deserted Virtue (Virtus Deserta) lower half, ca. 1500, Cleveland of Art Week 5 February 3 The Paragone (comparison/competition) among the arts Campbell & Cole, pp. 247-252, 280-283, 312-320, and 366-369. Claire Farago, ed., trans. and comm., Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone. A critical interpretation with a new edition of the text in the Codex Urbinas, Leiden, 1992, pp. 197-199, 209-215, and 275-279. [BB] Luba Freedman, "'The Schiavona.' Titian's Response to the Paragone between Painting and Sculpture," Arte Veneta 41 (1987): 31-40. [BB] 5/6 IMAGES FROM POWERPOINT LECTURE 5 55. Andrea Mantegna, St. Sebastian, c.1480, Louvre, Paris 56. Mantegna, Samson and Delilah, c.1490-1495, National Gallery, London 57. Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci, Baptism of Christ, ca. 1475, Florence, Uffizi 58. Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Ginevra de Benci, 1478-80, Washington, National Gallery 59. Verrocchio, Portrait of Woman with a Posey, 1475-80, Florence, Bargello 60. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, c. 1480 61. Leonardo, Adoration of the Magi, 1480-1482, Florence, Uffizi 62. Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks, 1483-1490, Paris, Louvre 63. Leonardo, Study for the Sforza monument, ca. 1488, Windsor Castle, Royal Library 64. Pollaiuolo, Sforza Equestrian Monument, drawing, 1482, New York Metropolitan of Art 65. Leonardo, Device for securing the piece-mould of a horse's head for casting, Madrid Codex II, Sforza monument mould, 1491 66. Leonardo, Three studies of the head of a horse, 1490-1510, London, British 67. Leonardo, Studies of a Horse, ca. 1490, Windsor Castle, Royal Libr. 68. Leonardo, Lady with an Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani), before 1490, Cracow, Czartoryski 69. Leonardo, Portrait of a Lady (Belle Ferroniere), 1495-99, Paris, Louvre 70. Giorgione and Titian (?), Sleeping Venus, ca. 1510, Dresden, Gemaeldegalerie 71. Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538, Florence, Uffizi 72. Titian, Portrait of La Schiavona (Dalmatian woman), 1511-13, London 73. Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man holding a Medal, c. 1474-75, Florence Uffizi
74. Botticelli, Portrait of a Young man holding an icon medallion, mid 1470s 75. Hans Memling, Portrait of a Man Holding a Coin with Profile Portrait of Nero, c.1480 76. Tullio Lombardo, Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1500, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches 77. Tullio Lomardo, Portrait of a Couple, 1490-1495, Ca d Oro, Venice 78. Early 16 th -century woodcut depicting a cut emerald cameo with a purported ancient portrait of Christ 79. Tullio Lombardo (attrib.), Profile Portrait of Christ, 1500-1520, Kimball, Fort Worth, Texas 80. Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Portrait of a Man in Armour, ca. 1529, Paris, Louvre Possible answers for fill in the blanks TELCHINES mythical seamonsters who were famous artists known for their spiteful, rancorous fighting amongst one another Chiaroscuro - the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. The name of any of the artists mentioned below, or their works of art mentioned above. Andrea Pisano Lorenzo Ghiberti Filippo Brunelleschi Andrea Orcagna Pietro di Giovanni Tedesco Niccolo Lamberti, Nanni di Banco, Donatello Verrocchio Bonino da Campione Antonio Pollaiuolo Leonardo da Vinci Baccio Pontelli Bertoldo di Giovanni Gustavo Tognetti Cosimo Rosselli Pietro Perugino Luca Signorelli Michelangelo Raphael Andrea del Castagno Domenico Veneziano Domenico Ghirlandaio Botticelli Bartolomeo della Fonte Andrea Mantegna School of Mantegna Girolamo Mocetto Girolamo Savonarola 6
Pollaiuolo Giorgione Titian Hans Memling Tullio Lombardo Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo 7/6