Chapter 19 From Gothic to Renaissance: 14th Century Italian Art

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Chapter 19From Gothic to Renaissance:

14th Century Italian Art

Bonaventura Berlinghieri

panel from“Saint Francis

Altarpiece”

San Francesco, Pescia, Italy

1235

Tempera on wood

@ 5’ x 3’ x 6”

Nicola Pisano

pulpit of Pisa Cathedral baptistery

Pisa, Italy

1259 - 1260

@ 15’ high

Nicola Pisano“The Annunciation and the Nativity”

detail of pulpit of Pisa Cathedral baptistery1259 - 1260 Marble relief, @ 2’ 10” x 3’ 9”

Nicola Pisano

“Fortitude” (Hercules or Daniel)

pulpit of Pisa Cathedral baptistery

Pisa, Italy

1259 - 1260

Giovanni Pisano“The Annunciation and the Nativity”

1297 - 1301 Marble relief, @ 2’ 10” x 3’ 4”

Pietro Cavallini“Seated Apostles”

detail of the “Last Judgement,” Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Rome, Italy 1291. Fresco

Cimabue

“Madonna Enthroned with Angels and

Prophets”

1280 - 1290

Tempera on wood

12’ 7” x 7’ 4”

Choir of the Upper Church, of San Francesco, Assisi,

with frescos by Cimabue, 1280

Giotto Di Bondone

“Madonna Enthroned”

Tempera on wood

10’ 8” x 6’ 8”

Interior of the Arena Chapel

(Cappella Scrovegni)

Padua, Italy

1305 - 1306

Giotto Di Bondone

“Lamentation”

Arena Chapel

Padua, Italy

1305

Fresco

6’ 6 1/4” x 6’ 3’4”

The Republic of Siena

Duccio Di Buoninsegna“Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints”

principal panel of the Maesta altarpiece, from the

Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1308 - 1311Tempera on wood, 7’ x 13’ (center panel)

Duccio Di Buoninsegna“Betrayal of Jesus”

detail from the back of the Maesta altarpiece from the Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1309 - 1311Tempra on wood, detail @ 1’ 10” x 3’ 4”

Duccio Di Buoninsegna

“Crucifiction”

from the Maesta altarpiece Siena

Cathedral

Siena, Italy

1309 - 1311

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, “Annunciation” 1333,

(frame reconstructed in the 19th century) Tempera and gold leaf on wood.

@ 10’ 1” x 8’ 8 3/4” (central panel)

PietroLorenzetti

“The Birth of the Virgin”

from the Altar of Saint

Savinus, Siena Cathedral

Siena, Italy1342

tempera on wood@ 6’ 1” x 5’ 11”

Palazzo Pubblico

Siena, Italy

1288 - 1309

Ambrogio Lorenzetti“Allegory of Good Government, Bad Government and the Effects of Bad Government in the City, and Effects of Good Government

in the City and in the Country”Fresco program on the interior of

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338 - 1339

Ambrogio Lorenzetti “Allegory of Good Government, Bad Government and the Effects of Bad Government in the City”

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338 - 1339Fresco

Ambrogio Lorenzetti “Allegory of Good Government, Bad Government and the Effects of Bad Government in the City”

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338 - 1339Fresco

Ambrogio Lorenzetti“Peaceful City” detail from

“Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country”

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338 - 1339Fresco

Ambrogio Lorenzetti“Peaceful Country” detail from

“Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country”

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338 - 1339Fresco

The Republic of Florence

Florence, Italy

Arnolpo Di Cambio (cathedral) begun 1296, Giotto (campanile) designed 1334, and Filippo

Brunelleschi (dome) between 1420 - 1436 Florence Cathedral (view from the south)

Florence, Italy

Cologne CathedralFlorence Cathedral

“Baptistery ofSan Giovanni”Florence, Italy

dedicated 1059

“Florence Cathedral”Florence, Italy, begun

1296

Florence Carthedral

Facade Florence Cathedral

(completed in the 19th century)

Nave of Florence Cathedral

(view facing east)

Florence, Italy,

begun 1296

Nave looking toward the aisle of Florence

Cathedral

Florence, Italy

begun 1296

Florence Cathedral Cologne Cathedral

Nave of the Franciscan Church at Santa Croce

Nave of the Dominican

Church at Santa Maria

Novella

Florence, Italy

1246 - 1470

Leon Battista AlbertiFacade of Santa Maria Novella

Florence, Italy, mid-15th century

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