History 324 Renaissance Art Slides

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History 324Renaissance Art Slides

• Isabella dEste
• and the
• Patron-Artist Relationship

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LEONARDO da VinciIsabella d'Este1500Black and
red chalk, yellow pastel chalk on paperMusée du
Louvre, Paris The cartoon shows the portrait of
Isabella d'Este. Holes were made in it so that it
could be transferred, but the cartoon has clearly
been trimmed and is in a poor state of
preservation.
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GIULIO ROMANOPortrait of a Woman (Isabella
dEste?) c. 1531Oil on panelRoyal Collection,
Windsor Giulio Romano was an assistant of
Raphael before being appointed court artist to
the Gonzagas at Mantua in 1524. Isabella dEste
did not want her portrait painted and only a few
of her exist.
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Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child, 1485-90, Oil
on wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York Bellini was one of the great geniuses of
the Renaissance his use of color to achieve
rich, atmospheric effects became the hallmark of
Venetian art of the Renaissance. In addition to
large altarpieces, Bellini also painted
devotional images of the Madonna and Child for
domestic settings. The quince held by the Child
is a symbol of the Resurrection.
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BELLINI, Giovanni, Madonna of the Meadow,
1505Oil on canvas, transferred from wood,
National Gallery, London
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Giovanni Bellini Pietà (detail)1460Tempera on
panelPinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Giovanni Bellini Portrait of Doge Leonardo
Loredan (Venice) 1501Oil on panelNational
Gallery, London The portrait, the largest of
Bellini's portraits, was probably painted around
1501, the year in which this aristocrat rose to
the dogate. The person portrayed held office from
the age of sixty-five to eighty-five.
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Giovanni Bellini St Jerome Reading in the
Countryside 1505Oil on woodNational Gallery of
Art, Washington
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Andrea Mantegna, Parnassus, 1497 Tempera on
canvas, Louvre, Paris
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COSTA, Lorenzo, Court of Isabella d'Este, after
1505Oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with St
Annec. 1510Oil on woodMusée du Louvre,
Paris St. Anne is seated, with Mary on her lap,
and Jesus in front (the Good Shepherd and
sacrificial lamb). In Gouwens, p. 238, Fra
Pietro da Novellara mentions a sketch of this
painting to Isabella dEste (1501) but Leonardo
had not completed it.
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Perugino, Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter,
1481-82, Cappella Sistina, Vatican
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Perugino, Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter
(detail), 1481-82, Cappella Sistina, Vatican
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Perugino, Battle between Chastity and Cupid,
1505, Louvre, Paris