1400-1500 Italian

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)

Brunelleschi vs Ghiberti

Florence: Orsanmichele-1410 Nanni Di Banco, Four Crowned

Saints

Donatello: St Mark, 1411, Orsanmichele, marble, 7’9”

Donatello: St George, 1410, 6’10”

Donatello: Feast of Herod, panel from Baptismal font, Siena Cathedral, 1423-

1427

Donatello: Zuccone,

Gates of Paradise: Ghiberti

Donatello: David, 1408 marble & 1440, bronze

Donatello: Mary Magdalene, wood, 1455

Donatello: Gattamelata, 1445-1453, bronze, Piazza del Santo, Padua

Verrocchio: David, 1465-1470, bronze,

Verrocchio: Colleoni, 1481-1490, Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo,

Venice, bronze, 13’

Fox vs Lion

Pollaiuolo: Hercules and Antaeus, 1470-1475, bronze, 1’6”

Pollauiolo:

Painting

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

Fabriano: Adoration of the Magi, Strozzi Chapel, Santa Trinita, Florence,

1423, 10X9, Uffizi Gallery

Masaccio: Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1424-1427, fresco cycle

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden

Masaccio: Trinita, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1424-1427, fresco,

21’10”X10.4”• “I was once what you are, and I amwhat you will become”

Fra Angelico: Annunciation, San Marco, Florence, 1438-1447, fresco

Castagno: Last Supper, refectory, convent of Sant’Apollonia, Florence,

1447, fresco, 15’X32’

Fra Fillippo Lippi: Madonna and Child with Angels, tempera on wood, 3’X2’, 1455,

Uffizi

Ghirlandaio: Giovanna Tournabuoni, 1488, oil and tempera on

wood,2’6”X1’8”

Ghirlandaio: Birth of the Virgin, Capella Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1485-

1490, fresco cycle

Uccello: Battle of San Romano, 1455, tempera on wood, 6’X10.5’

Botticelli: Primavera, tempera on wood, 1482, 6’8”X8’10”

Birth of Venus, 1484-1486, tempera on canvas, 6’X9’

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

Perugino: Christ Delivering the Keys to Saint Peter, Sistine Chapel, Rome 1481-

1483, 11’5” X 18’8”

Signorelli: Damned Cast into Hell, Orvieto Cathedral, 1499-1504, fresco, 23’ wide

Orvieto Cathedral

Piero della Francesca: Enthroned Madonna and Saints Adored by Federico da Montefeltro,

1472-1474, 8’2”X5’7”, oil on wood

Mantegna: Camera Picta, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, 1465-1474

Ceiling of Camera Picta

Mantegna: Dead Christ, 1500, tempera on canvas, 2’2”X2’7”