1400 1500 Italian Florence Sculpture Medici avid patrons

1400 -1500 Italian

Florence: Sculpture • Medici: avid patrons • 1 st 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, 14231427

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, 10 X 9, 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”X 10. 4” • “I was once what you are, and I am what you will become”

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

Castagno: Last Supper, refectory, convent of Sant’Apollonia, Florence, 1447, fresco, 15’X 32’

Fra Fillippo Lippi: Madonna and Child with Angels, tempera on wood, 3’X 2’, 1455, Uffizi

Ghirlandaio: Giovanna Tournabuoni, 1488, oil and tempera on wood, 2’ 6”X 1’ 8”

Ghirlandaio: Birth of the Virgin, Capella Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 14851490, fresco cycle

Uccello: Battle of San Romano, 1455, tempera on wood, 6’X 10. 5’

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

Birth of Venus, 1484 -1486, tempera on canvas, 6’X 9’

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 14811483, 11’ 5” X 18’ 8”

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

Piero della Francesca: Enthroned Madonna and Saints Adored by Federico da Montefeltro, 14721474, 8’ 2”X 5’ 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”X 2’ 7”

Leon Battista Alberti: Sant Andrea, Mantua, 1470’s