The Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence and Venice Jonathan Davies

The Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence and Venice

Jonathan Davies

What were the functions of the visual arts in Florence and Venice?

What types of patron were there?

What were the motivations of patrons?

How and why did the visual arts in Florence and Venice begin to be influenced by the revival of antiquity?

Vittore Carpaccio, The Dream of St Ursula

Orsanmichele

Benozzo Gozzoli, The Adoration of the Magi

Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco

Tintoretto, The Miracle of St Mark Freeing the Slave

Veronese, The Feast in the House of Levi

Palazzo della Signoria

The Duomo

The Baptistery

Scuola Grande di San Marco

Palazzo Medici

Palazzo Rucellai

Palazzo Strozzi

Ca’ Foscari

Titian, Madonna with saints and members of the Pesaro family

Donatello, David

Verrocchio, David

Veronese, The Apotheosis of Venice

Vasari, Portrait of Alessandro, duke of Florence

Bandinelli, Bust of Cosimo, duke of Florence

Brunelleschi, Ospedale degli Innocenti

Masaccio, St Peter healing the sick

Donatello, David

Gambello, The gate of the Arsenale

Giovanni Bellini, Madonna degli Alberetti

Codusso, San Michele in Isola

Mantegna, St Sebastian

Donatello, St John the Baptist

Castagno, St John the Baptist

Donatello, Miracle of the new-born child

Verrocchio and Leopardo, Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni

Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe Altarpiece

Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe Altarpiece (detail)

Virgin and Child, Santa Maria Assunta