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An introduction to Italian art of the fifteenth century. Featuring artists such as, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Uccello, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, and more! Florence, Venice, Urbino, and Mantua are also featured artistic cities/places.

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  • 1.Professor Paige Prater T, R, 12PM-1:20PM

2. Big Ideas Sculptors: human figureRoman sculpture Scientific investigation Linear perspective Wealthy merchant class (condottieri) Artistic competition & individual achievement innovation 3. th 15Century Italy Florence, Milan, & Venice Wealthy families: political power + artistic patronage Medici (merchants/bankers>virtual rulers) in Florence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l88oJARJ9Fs (first 7 min) Renewed interest in ancient literary texts Plato & NeoPlatonists Spiritual vs physical (ideal vs matter) Government: Florence: constitutional oligarchy civic architecture 4. Church of San Lorenzo Old Sacristy: https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=LK v0hRyiGCY&list=PL AAEFE618A27E29D2 Square module throughout Pietra serena gray Tuscan sandstone 5. Church of San Lorenzo, Florence - Exterior 6. Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Begun 1446 7. Palazzo Medici-Riccardi sgraffito in courtyard 8. Florence Cathedral 1367 dome envisioned; no technical know-how 1407 sculptor-turned-architect, Filippo Brunelleschi proposed a technical solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8F_yPwqz A&list=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2&index=4 9. Florence Cathedral: Bronze Doors Competition Lorenzo GhibertiFilippo Brunelleschi 10. Lorenzo Ghiberti (1381?-1455), The Gates of Paradise East doors for Florentine Baptistery; commissioned 1425; installed 1452. Restoration Project completed in 2012:http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=C6AbLI4QBAU 11. Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise Jacob & Esau 12. Sculpture Realism Space Classical past 13. Orsanmichele Grain loggia (grain market) 14 guilds commissioned to fill ground-floor niches with statuary Nanni di Banco The Four Crowned Martyrs Donatello St. GeorgeView of north east corner of the church from Via Calzaiuoli (http://www.orsanmichele.net/photos-video/) 14. The Four Crowned Martyrs Nanni di Banco c. 1409-1417. 6 height of figures. 15. St. George Donatello, 14171420Height 65. 16. Donatello David 1446-1460(?) First life-size, freestanding nude since antiquity! Originally in Medici Palace in 1469 with inscribed base: The victor is whoever defends the fatherland. All-powerful God crushes the angry enemy. Behold, a boy overcomes the great tyrant. Conquer, O citizens! 17. Donatello Equestrian Statue of Erasmo da Narni (Gattamelata), 1443-1453 Piazza del Santo, Padua. Bronze, ~122 high. 18. The Trinity (1426, fresco)-Masaccio (Big Tom) Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai (14011428/1429?) Linear perspective 19. The Expulsion of Adam & Eve from Paradise (c. 1427) Masaccio Brancacci Chapel, Churc of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. Only scene NOT from the life of St. Peter http://www.yout ube.com/watch?v =hMzFbORRiss 20. The Tribute Money (c. 1427) Masaccio Brancacci Chapel, church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. Fresco. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDPNSPbjzQ8 21. Fra Angelico (Angelic Brother) (1395/1400-1455) Beatified in 1984 Took vows as a Dominican monk between 1418-1421. 1438-1445 worked with assistants to create meditational paintings for each monks cell at monastery of San Marco 22. Annunciation Fra Angelico Top of stairs, north corridor Linear perspective 1438-1445 7 1 x 10 6 http://ww w.youtube.c om/watch? v=3BV_pG3HPQ 23. Paolo Ucello (Paul Bird) The Battle of San Romano (1438-1440) 24. Fra Filippo Lippi Portrait of a Woman and a Man, c. 1435-1445 Earliest surviving double portrait of the Italian Renaissance Tempera on wood panel, 25 x 16 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 25. Beyond 1550: Northern Italy Artists trained in Florence moved around; influence of Donatello, Masaccio, and Brunelleschi spreads Ducal courts at Urbino and Mantua Classical ideas and innovation continued to characterize the artwork. 26. Urbino Count Federico da Montefeltro, a condottiere, hires Luciano Laurana (c. 1420/1425-1479) to finish out the palace at Urbino Montefeltro becomes Duke in 1476 Fourth wing added; courtyard facades redecorated Piers embellished with pilasters Trompe loeil (fool the eye) effects Intarsia (wood inlay) 27. Courtyard, Ducal Palace, Urbino (1467-1472) 28. Ducal Palace, Urbino, cutawayhttp://arts.muohio.edu/faculty/benson/urbino/urbino.htm 29. Studiolo Montefeltros study (1476) Intarsia! Probably done by woodworker/architect, Giuliano da Maiano (1432-1490) 30. Ducal court artist:Piero Della Francesca (c.1415-1492) Worked in Florence in the 1430s Knew current art theory and practice Linear and atmospheric perspective Spatial illusion Modeling of forms 31. Baptism of Christ (c. 1450) Piero della Francesca Tempera on wood panel 66 x 45 . National Gallery, London. http://www .youtube.co m/watch?v= qv2K1yk0LC E&list=PLA AEFE618A27 E29D2&inde x=15 32. Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro (c. 1474) Piero della Francesca OIL on wood panel, ea 18 x 13. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Battista died at age 26, after birth of 9th child! Federico grieved. 33. Mantua Marquis of Mantua: Ludovico Gonzaga, a condottiere Gonzaga rules territory of Italian plain between Venice and Milan Humanist ideas in his court: art & literature 34. Camera Picta Ducal Palace, Mantua (1465-1474) Andrea Mantegna, artist of the frescos Tower chamber in palace Radical perspective in domed ceiling: di sotto in s (from below upwards) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0P5RkQAow&list=PLAAEFE618 A27E29D2&index=32 35. Sistine Chapel - Rome Pope Sixtus IV 1480s called group of young Florentine and Umbrian artists including Pietro Vannucci (Perugino) worked on Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter Sandro Botticelli Ghirlandaio Michelangelo (ceiling and scene behind altar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEE3B8Fsuc0 36. Sculpture in Florence Verrocchio (true eye), a.k.a Andrea di Michele Cioni (1435-1488) goldsmith, painter, and bronze sculptor Teacher of Da Vinci and Perugino!David, Verrocchio. Medici Palace, c. 1470-1475. Bronze with gilded details. 49 5/8 high. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. 37. Hercules and Antaeus Antonio del Pollaiuolo, c. 1475 Bronze, 18 with base. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Polaiuolo: embroidery designer, goldsmith, painter, printmaker, and sculptor; started working for Medici family in 1460 38. The Battle of the Nudes Pollaiuolo, c. 1465-1470, etching 39. Ghirlandaio Nickname means garland maker, a.k.a. Domenico di Tommaso Bigordi (1449-1494) Father was a goldsmith known for his floral wreaths 1483-1486 Life of St. Francis murals Commissioned by Francesco Sassetti, manager of Medici bank, for burial chapel at Santa Trinit in Florence 40. Scenes from the Life of St. Francis; Altarpiece with Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds 41. Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds (1485). 42. Confirmation of the Franciscan by Pope Rule Honorius III 43. Birth of Venus (1484-1486)-Botticelli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdp22elrY7s&li st=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2&index=18 44. Primavera (1482)Botticelli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZn852brII&l ist=PLAAEFE618A27E29D2&index=19 45. Gentile & Giovanni Bellini Venice Oligarchy with elected duke (doge) Gentile: large and lively narratives 46. Gentile Bellini Procession of the Relic of the True Cross before the Church of St. Mark c. 1496, oil on canvas, 12 x 24 5 47. Giovanni Bellini Virgin and Child Enthroned with SS. Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse oil on wood panel, c. 1478 48. Giovanni Bellini St. Francis in Ecstasy c. 1470s, oil and tempera on wood panel