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Italian Renaissance Architecture and Sculpture
1418 Brunelleschi and Ghiberti battle for the dome
1453 End of 100 years War between France and England
1474 First book printed in English
1492 Columbus sails to the New World
1492 Lorenzo the Magnificent takes over as head of the Medici
family
1503 Leonardo paints the Mona Lisa
1500-1525 High Renaissance
Areas of works: Florence, Venice, Padua, Rome, Mantua,
Assisi
Key Events, People, and Places:
The Bubonic Plague-the aftermath The Invention of Movable Type
(Guttenberg) Music Parallels: Mozart, Schubert, Chopin Literary
Parallels: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Dante Science Parallels: Newton,
Copernicus, Levoisier Exploring the New World; Columbus, De Soto,
Hudson, et al The role of the Medicis: The Rise of the Family
Empire The Catholic Church-Rise, Rise, and Little Fall Important
Florentine Families: Pazzi, Pitti, Strozzi, Medici, Rucellai
Stylistic Hallmarks:
Large paintings, often on wood Altar pieces and triptychs
Vertical and rising, climbing sculpture Architecture-churches,
palaces, large government centers Use of local stone, marble,
bigger, larger, better
Terms:
Quattrocento Cinquecento squinch Lantern Triglyph Loggia
Oculus
Images
Europe through the Renaissance to the Baroque
Renaissance Palace Faade Elevation City states in Renaissance
Italy
Architecture
Brunelleschi Cathedral (Florence) 1417-1436
Exterior View* Cutaway section
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Top of Tower* Cathedral Complex
Ghiberti Gates of Paradise 1425-1452
Baptistry Doors (gilded bronze)* Detail of Doors (Jacob and Esau
panel, 1435)*
Brunelleschi Santo Spirito (Florence) 1436-1470
Exterior elevation Colonnade Interior View
Palladio, Andrea Villa Rotunda 1556-1570
Exterior/plan* Faade*
Bramante St. Peters (Rome) 1506
Plan* Design for Dome*
Michelangelo St. Peters (Rome) 1558-1590
Exterior view of the dome Plan Interior of Dome* Longitudinal
Section Dome design
Sculpture
Donatello
o David (bronze) * 1446-1460o Mary Magdalene (polychrome on
wood)* 1450s
Verrocchio
o Equestrian Monument of Bartolommeo Colleoni (Venice) 1479o
David (bronze) 1473-1475
Michelangelo
o Pieta (marble)* 1500o David (marble)* 1501-1504o Moses
(marble)* 1513-1516
Della Robbia, Andrea and Luca
Pieces are glazed ceramic and found decorating buildings
throughout Florence
*Image can also be found in your book
