Early Renaissance Final Study Guide

Baptism of Christ

• Artist: Masolino• Date: 1435-1436• Medium: fresco• Location: fresco cycle

in the Baptistery at Castigline Olona (north of Milan)

• Patron: Cardinal Branda Castiglione

Annunciation(with background scene of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve)

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1432-1433• Medium: panel• Location: Diocese

Museum, Cortona• Predella of

Visitation

Visitation(from the predella of the Annunciation altarpiece)

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1432-1433• Medium: panel• Location: Diocese

Museum, Cortona

Descent from the Cross(or Deposition)

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1434• Medium: panel• Location: Palla Strozzi

funerary chapel and the sacristy of the church of S. Trinita, Florence (now in the Museo di S. Marco, Florence)

• Patron: Palla Strozzi• Paintings on the pier and

gables by Lorenzo Monaco, early 1420’s

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1440• Medium: panel• Location: altarpiece

for the high altar of the church of S. Marco (now in the Museo S. Marco, Florence)

• Patron: Cosimo de Medici

Annunciation

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1428-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: above the

stairs, dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence

• Patron: Cosimo de Medici

Annunciation with S. Peter Martyr

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: in the cells

of the friars, in the dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence

• Patron: Cosimo de Medici

Coronation of the Virgin

• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: in the cells

of the friars, in the dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence

• Patron: Cosimo de Medici

Madonna and Child Enthroned(or Tarquinia Madonna)

• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi• Date: 1437• Medium: panel• Location: Galleria

Nazionale, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

• Patron: Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Vitelleschi, for his palace in Corneto Tarquinia

Annunciation

• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi

• Date: 1440• Medium: panel• Location: San

Lorenzo, Florence

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi

• Date: 1455-1460’s• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,

Florence

Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin and Meeting of Joachim and

Anna• Artist: Fra Filippo

Lippi• Date: 1452 • Medium: panel• Location: Pitti Gallery,

Florence• “tondo”

Feast of Herod

• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi

• Date: 1452-1466• Medium: fresco• Location: Cathedral,

Prato

Adoration of the Infant Jesus

• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi

• Date: late 1450’s• Medium: panel• Location: chapel in

the Medici Palace (now in Berlin and replaced by a copy)

• Patron: member of the Medici family

Equestrian Portrait of Sir John Hawkwood

• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1436• Medium: fresco, later

transferred to canvas• Location: Cathedral,

Florence• Patron: Opera del

Duomo

The Flood

• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1445-1455• Medium: fresco• Location: Chiostro

Verde (Green Cloister) Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Battle of S. Romano

• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1435-1460• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi, Florence

and National Gallery, London

• Patron: Lorenzo Bartolini Salimbeni

• 2 of 3 paintings of Florentine military victories

• Recorded in the inventory of the Medici palace in the later 15th C

Madonna and Child with Saints(“St. Lucy Altarpiece”) and predella of the Annunciation

• Artist: Domenico Veneziano

• Date: 1445-1447• Medium: panel• Location: high altar of

the church of S. Lucia de’Magnoli, Florence and now in the Uffizi

AnnunciationPredella of the St. Lucy Altarpiece

• Artist: Domenico Veneziano

• Date: 1445-1447• Medium: panel• Location: high altar of

the church of S. Lucia de’Magnoli, Florence and now in the Uffizi

Last Supper(and view of wall)

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1447• Medium: frescoes• Location: refectory –

now Museum – of Sant’Apollonia, Florence

Uomini Famosi(Famous Men and Women)

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa

Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)

• Reconstruction of room

Pippo Spano

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa

Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)

• Reconstruction of room

Cumaean Sibyl

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa

Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)

• Reconstruction of room

Vision of St. Jerome

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1454-55• Medium: fresco• Location: SS.

Annunziata, Florence

Equestrian Portrait of Niccolo da Tolentino

• Artist: Andrea del Castagno

• Date: 1454-1456• Medium: fresco later

transferred to canvas• Location: Opera del

Duomo, Cathedral, Florence

Baptism of Christ

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: late 1440-1450’s

• Medium: panel• Location: Borgo

Sansepolcro, now in the National Gallery in London

• Patron: Pieve of S. Giovanni

Resurrection

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: 1458• Medium: fresco• Location: Town Hall of

Borgo Sansepolcro, now in the Museo Civico

The Legend of the True CrossView of Chapel

• Artist: Piero della Francesca• Date: late 1440’s-1465 but

mostly done in the 1450’s (vault by Bicci di Lorenzo, who began the cycle but left it incomplete in 1447)

• Medium: fresco• Location: S. Francesco,

Arezzo

The Legend of the True CrossDiagram of Scheme

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:

Discovery of the Wood of the True Cross and Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:

Invention of the True Cross and Recognition of the True Cross

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S. Francesco,

Arezzo• Patron:

Battle of Constantine and Maxentius

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:

Annunciation

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:

Vision of Constantine

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo • Patron:

Flagellation of Christ

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: 1450’s• Medium: panel• Location: S.

Francesco, Arezzo

Madonna and Child with Saints“Montefeltro Altarpiece”

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: mid 1470’s• Medium: panel• Location: S.

Bernardino, Urbino (now Brera, Milan)

• Patron: Federico da Montefeltro

Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza

(front panels)

• Artist: Piero della Francesca

• Date: 1475• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,

Florence• Patron: Federico da

Montefeltro

Triumph of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza

(reverse panel)• Artist: Piero della

Francesca• Date: 1475• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,

Florence• Patron: Federico da

Montefeltro