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Chapter 8 part 2
France
LIMBOURG BROTHERS, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry,
1413–1416. Fig. 8-9.
FranceExample: • Book of Hours for private
patron • Illusionistic treatment of
space• Luxury item• Scenes of daily life,
identifiable settings• Painting by secular
artists, not monksLIMBOURG BROTHERS, Les Très Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Fig. 8-9.
Holy Roman Empire
MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented
by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Fig. 8-12.
Holy Roman EmpireExample: • Print, engraving • Cross-hatches for
shading • Surface description of
textures• Printing responds to rise
in literacy and improved economy
MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented
by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Fig. 8-12.
ItalyDates and Places: • 1400-1500• Independent courts on
the Italian peninsula
People:• Humanism • Revival of classical
learning• Self-aggrandizing patrons
LORENZO GHIBERTI, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401–1402. Fig. 8-14.
ItalyThemes:• Life of Christ and the
Virgin Mary • Secular life • Classical themes
Forms:• Linear perspective• Classical forms• Optical naturalism• Window onto the
world
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA, Flagellation of Christ, ca. 1455–
1465. Fig. 8-35.
Italy
LORENZO GHIBERTI, Gates of Paradise, 1425–1452. Fig. 8-15.
ItalyExample: • Civic commission • Bronze doors of
baptistery• Linear perspective• Aerial perspective• Classical models• Story-telling narrative
clarityLORENZO GHIBERTI, Gates of Paradise, 1425–1452. Fig. 8-15.
Italy
DONATELLO, David, ca. 1440–1460. Fig. 8-19.
ItalyExample: • First nude sculpture
since antiquity• Bronze cast sculpture• Civic symbol of Florence• Private patron (Medici)• Sensuous contrapposto
for calm hero
DONATELLO, David, ca. 1440–1460. Fig. 8-19.
Italy
DONATELLO, Gattamelata, ca. 1445–
1453. Fig. 8-20.
ItalyExample: • Public monument• Bronze equestrian
portrait • Modeled after Marcus
Aurelius• Contemporary
condottiere dressed as Roman general
• Image of strength and power
DONATELLO, Gattamelata, ca. 1445–1453.
Fig. 8-20.
Italy
MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, ca. 1424–1427. Fig. 8-23.
ItalyExample: • Fresco in church, donor
portraits • Applies linear perspective
based on location of viewer’s eye
• Illusionistic extension of viewer’s space
• Classical architectural vocabulary MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, ca.
1424–1427. Fig. 8-23.