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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”