Some Key Principles of the Renaissance

• Imitation of nature• Desire to surpass classical models in quality• Rationality and empirical knowledge• Reconciling these other goals with

Christianity• Arts innovation through trade, travel,

growing patronage

Cathedral Complex, Pisa. Cathedral, begun 1063; baptistery, begun 1153; campanile, begun 1174; Campo Santo, 13th century.

Nicola Pisano, Pulpit at Pisa Baptistery (1260) Height approx. 15'.

Thomas Becket assassination in book of psalms (ca. 1250)

Christ Church, Canterbury Key dates of construction from 1067,1180,1220, 1377-1405, 1498

Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Frescos of the Sala dei Nove (Or Sala della Pace). 1338–1339. Length of long wall about 46’.

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi. Annunciation. 1333. 10' × 8’ 9”.

Gentile da Fabriano,Strozzi AltarpieceAdoration of the Magi(1423)

Cimabue, Madonna and Child in Majesty (1280) Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna (1310)

GiottoArena, or Scrovegni Chapel(1303-6) Padua, Italy

Santa Maria del Fiore DuomoFlorence Cathedral(1296-1470)

Three Renaissance artists:Giotto (1334-59) Campanile

Fillipo Brunelleschi (1420-40)Dome

Lorenzo Ghiberti(1401-1452) Baptistery doors

Left: Filippo Brunelleschi and Right: Lorenzo Ghiberti. Sacrifice of Isaac. 1401–1402. 21 × 17 1/2”.

Filippo BrunelleschiFoundling Hospital – Ospedale degli Innocenti (1419-24)

Filippo Brunelleschi

Pazzi Chapel Santa Croce Church (1429) Florence

Attributed to Michelozzo di Bartolomeo. Façade, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. Begun 1446.

Masaccio, Tribute Money fresco in Brancacci Chapel (1425-28) Sainta Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy

Continuous narration: Apostle Peter shown in three separate moments in unified composition

One-point perspective

Domenico Veneziano, Annunciation (1445)

Inscription:“I was once what you are; what I am, you will be.”

Masaccio. Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and

Donors. c. 1425–1427/1428. 21' × 10’ 5”.

Donatello, Saint Mark (1415) Florence, Italy

Contrapposto

Iconography

Donatello, David (1440)

Courtyard at Palazzo Medici (1446)

Palazzo Rucellai (1446-51)Attributed to Leon Battista Alberti

Jan van Eyck. Double Portrait of a Giovanni

Arnolfini and His Wife. 1434. 33 × 22 1/2”.

Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece with Annunciation, two donors, and Joseph (1425) Flemish, oil on panel

Venetian painting

Giovanni BelliniSan Giobbe Altarpiece (1487)Oil paint on panel

Sacra conversatzione - sacred conversation

Andrea Mantegna, Saint Sebastian (1460)

Andrea Mantegna, Pieta, or Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1490-1501)

Sandro Botticelli. Birth of Venus. c. 1484–1486. 5’ 8 7/8" × 9’ 1 7/8”.

Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482. 6’ 8" × 10’ 4”.