Please read Chapter 16.
The Baptistery of Florence. Built in the eleventh century. Here is the first set of doors by Andrea Pisano, from 1330. Gilded bronze relief.
Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac (competition panel for the Baptistery doors), 1401-02. Gilded bronze relief. (16-1)
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac (competition panel for the Baptistry doors), 1401-02. Gilded bronze relief. (16-2) The panels here, like those of the first set and the competition panels, are in a quatrefoil shape frame.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, East doors of the baptistery of Florence, called The Gates of
Paradise. 1425-1452. Gilded bronze relief.
Photographs of the Gates(16-4).
Notice the use of perspective in these scenes.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Isaac and His Sons, detail of above. Gilded bronze relief. (16-5) The finest level of relief here is called relievo schiacciato.
Donatello, Feast of Herod, from the baptismal font of Siena Cathedral, Siena, circa 1425. Gilded bronze relief. (16-3)
Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, Orsanmichele, Florence, ca. 1408-1414. (16-6) Note the predella, the strip of images below the main scene (here, the Four Crowned Saints) that relate to the scene in some way.
Donatello, St. Mark, Orsanmichele, Florence ca. 1411-13 (16-7)
Donatello, Zuccone , (Habakkuk), formerly Florence Duomo facade, 1423/1425. Marble, about 6' 5" tall. "if you don't eat your spinach..." (16-8)
Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, bronze, 1884-1889. Many castings. (21-50) Date: 19t-century French
Robert Arneson. California Artist. Glazed stoneware, 1982. (23-82)
Arneson and his bust of SF Mayor George Moscone Date:
20th-century U.S.
Maya Lin. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Washington, D.C., 1981/1983. Black granite, each wing 246 feet long. (23-16) 20th-century U.S.
Frederick Hart. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Washington, D.C., 1984. Bronze, life-size. 20th-century U.S.
Gentile da Fabriano. Adoration of the Magi. Tempera on wood. 1423.
Masaccio, Tribute Money,fresco from the Brancacci Chapel, church
of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, c.1427
Virtual tour of the Brancacci
Chapel (16-10) Consider one-point or linear perspective
Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, from the Brancacci Chapel church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, fresco, c.1425 (16-11)
Masaccio, Holy Trinity,fresco, church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, c.1428 (16-12)
Remember that you need to know the locations of frescos, buildings, and other permanently installed works of art.Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of the Cathedral (Duomo), Florence, 1420-36 (16-13, 14) Note the use of the double-shelled dome in order to finally solve the problem of how to build the dome.
Filippo Brunelleschi, church of Santo Spirito, Florence, begun ca. 1436; and the plans. (16-15, 16) Be able to refer to the nave, the nave arcade, side aisles, the crossing, and pietra serena [Skip this time]
Filippo Brunelleschi, facade of the Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, begun circa 1440. (16-17, 18, 19) [Skip this time]
Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, Palazzo
Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 1444; and the courtyard.
Another site on the Medici Palace(16-20, 21) Note
the use of rustication
Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, ca. 1452-1470. (16-33)
Leon Battista Alberti, west facade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, ca. 1458-1470. (16-34, 35)
Donatello, David, circa 1428-late 1450s. Bronze, 5' 2.5" tall. (16-23)
Andrea del Verrocchio, David, circa 1465-1470. Bronze. (16-24)
Antonio Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Ten Nudes, 1465. (16-26) [Skip this time]
Antonio Pollaiuolo, Hercules and Antaeus, circa 1475. Bronze, ca. 18" tall with base. (16-25)
Donatello, Gattamelata (Erasmo da Narni). Piazza del Santo, Padua, ca. 1445-1450. Bronze. (16-29) [Skip this time]
Andrea del Verrocchio, Bartolommeo Colleoni. Campo (like a Piazza, only in Venice) dei Ss Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, ca. 1483-1488. Bronze. (16-30
At the right you see a lovely image of the Equestrian Monument of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, ca. AD 175, formerly in place on the Capitoline Hill in Rome (now it's in a museum in Rome). This was a model and inspiration for equestrian monuments from the Renaissance.
Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano, circa 1455 (16-22)
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1482 (16-27)
Please note that the locations listed here are included to indicate the origins of the paintings.
Jan van Eyck, Man in the Red Turban, (Bruges) 1433 (15-16)
Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1489/1490. (Florence) (16-28)
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Young Woman (Giovanna Tornabuoni?), (Florence)
1488 (16-31)
The inscription: "Ars utinam mores animumque effigere posses pulchrior in terris nulla tabella
foret. (Art, if only you could portray mores and spirit, there would be no more beautiful picture on earth)."
See
link here.
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin, from the Cappella Maggiore (major chapel) of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1485-1490. Fresco. (16-32) [Skip this time]
Fra Angelico, Annunciation. Convent of San Marco, Florence, circa 1440-1445. (16-36)
Andrea del Castagno, The Last Supper, the Refectory (dining room) in the monastery of Sant'Apollonia, Florence, 1447. Fresco. (16-37) [Skip this time]
Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Angels, circa 1455. Tempera on wood. (16-38) [Skip this time]
Luca della Robbia, Madonna and Child, terracotta with polychrome glaze, circa 1455-1460. (16-39) [Skip this time]
Perugino, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, 1481-1483. Fresco. (16-40)
Leon Battista Alberti, west facade and interior of Sant'Andrea, Mantua, designed circa 1470. (16-41, 42, 43) [Skip this time]
Andrea Mantegna, interior of the so-called Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, 1474. (16-45) [Skip this time]
Andrea Mantegna, Ceiling (oculus) of the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, c. 1474 (16-46) [Skip this time]
Piero della Francesca, Finding the True Cross and Proving of the True Cross. Fresco, circa 1455. San Francesco, Arezzo. (16-49) [Skip this time]
Piero della Francesca, Brera Altarpiece, oil on panel, circa 1472-1474. (16-50)
Piero's portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino and his portrait of Battista Sforza, Duchess of Urbino.Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, in San Brizio Chapel, Cathedral of Orvieto, 1499-1504. Fresco. [Skip this time]
As mentioned in class, I'm going to put on some of these pages a few terms that you should know. Please note that your book comes well-equipped with an excellent vocabulary list; please refer to it as needed.
So, know about: the International Style, the S-curve, true fresco, atmospheric perspective, linear perspective, the Madonna (Mary), the Trinity, dome, bronze, relief, contrapposto (the weight shift), oculus, rustication, the Orders, altarpiece, diptych, polyptych.
