1400-1500 Italian

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1400-1500 Italian
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Florence Sculpture

• Medici avid patrons
• 1st impt commission was work not of Medici but
  wool guild for the east end of the baptistry
• Subject Sacrifice of Isaac which prefigures the
  crucifixion
• Also sacrifice was linked to Florentine victory
  over Milan (Visconti)

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Brunelleschi vs Ghiberti
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Florence Orsanmichele-1410 Nanni Di Banco,
Four Crowned Saints
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Donatello St Mark, 1411, Orsanmichele, marble,
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Donatello St George, 1410, 610
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Donatello Feast of Herod, panel from Baptismal
font, Siena Cathedral, 1423-1427
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Donatello Zuccone,
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Gates of Paradise Ghiberti
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Donatello David, 1408 marble 1440, bronze
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Donatello Mary Magdalene, wood, 1455
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Donatello Gattamelata, 1445-1453, bronze,
Piazza del Santo, Padua
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Verrocchio David, 1465-1470, bronze,
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Verrocchio Colleoni, 1481-1490, Campo dei Santi
Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, bronze, 13
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Fox vs Lion
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Pollaiuolo Hercules and Antaeus, 1470-1475,
bronze, 16
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Pollauiolo
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Painting

• Imitation
• Emulation
• Panel and mural painting
• International Gothic also persisted
• Perspective
• Sfumato
• Chiaroscuro
• Fresco cycles

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Fabriano Adoration of the Magi, Strozzi Chapel,
Santa Trinita, Florence, 1423, 10X9, Uffizi
Gallery
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Masaccio Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Santa
Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1424-1427, fresco
cycle
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Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden
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Masaccio Trinita, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, 1424-1427, fresco, 2110X10.4

• I was once what you are, and I am
• what you will become

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Fra Angelico Annunciation, San Marco, Florence,
1438-1447, fresco
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Castagno Last Supper, refectory, convent of
SantApollonia, Florence, 1447, fresco, 15X32
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Fra Fillippo Lippi Madonna and Child with
Angels, tempera on wood, 3X2, 1455, Uffizi
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Ghirlandaio Giovanna Tournabuoni, 1488, oil and
tempera on wood,26X18
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Ghirlandaio Birth of the Virgin, Capella
Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
1485-1490, fresco cycle
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Uccello Battle of San Romano, 1455, tempera on
wood, 6X10.5
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Botticelli Primavera, tempera on wood, 1482,
68X810
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Birth of Venus, 1484-1486, tempera on canvas,
6X9
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Princely Courts

• Money , power and fame
• Somewhat feudal in relationship
• Each prince had an entourage of staff in his
  court
• Visual imagery was propaganda
• Court artists emerge
• Create gifts for visiting authorities
• Rome, Milan, Mantua, Naples, Urbino etc

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Perugino Christ Delivering the Keys to Saint
Peter, Sistine Chapel, Rome 1481-1483, 115 X
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Signorelli Damned Cast into Hell, Orvieto
Cathedral, 1499-1504, fresco, 23 wide
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Piero della Francesca Enthroned Madonna and
Saints Adored by Federico da Montefeltro,
1472-1474, 82X57, oil on wood
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Mantegna Camera Picta, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua,
1465-1474
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Ceiling of Camera Picta
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Mantegna Dead Christ, 1500, tempera on canvas,
22X27
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Leon Battista Alberti Sant Andrea, Mantua,
1470s
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