Art Exam 1

• means Rebirth ( of classical study)
• ideas of origin & where they came from

• Artist: Giotto
• Title: Madonna Enthroned
• ProtoRenaissance
• 1310

• More 3D than Cimabue
• introduces symbols: Lilies & Roses
• Giotto was Cimabue's student
• leans towards Gothic (arch)

• Artist: Duccio
• Title: Maesta
• Period: ProtoRenaissance
• Date: 1308-1311

13 ft wide; life of Christ on back, free standing alter; comp generated to what it should look like (it was sold off in pieces)

• Artist: Duccio
• Title: Christ Entering Jerusalem
• Period: ProtoRenaissance

• on back of Maesta
• Town is actually Duccio's town: Sienna
• Zachius in Tree
• Reversed perspective (bottom is smaller)

• Artist: Lorenzetti
• Title: The Birth of the Virgin
• Period: ProtoRenaissance
• Date: 1342

• (in Sienna) a Triptych
• St Anne gave birth to Virgin Mary
• St Joachim (father) outside
• great use of perspective

3 scened panel painting on alter piece made of wood & henged

• Artist: Traini
• Title: Triumph of Death
• Period: Proto Renaissance
• Date: 1330's (disputed b/c of black plague)

• Lower: 3 open coffins
• rich hunters come upon them
• now exposed to something they said they couldn't get

• Upper: Monks in front of Chapel
• Man milking deer; go back to nature and church to avoid death

Lower: picnic under an orange tree; think they can't be touched; Death right next to them

Upper: Angels and Demons fight for souls

• A. Clerestory
• B. Aisles
• C. Nave

Doric Column

Ionic Column

Corinthian Column

Title: Santa Maria del Fiore

Original Church was made during Gothic Period, Dome and Bell Tower added in ProtoRenaissance and made Gothic also

Means St Mary of the Flowers

• Artist: Giotto
• Title: Campanile of Santa Maria Del Fiore
• Period: ProtoRenaissance
• Date: 1334

Giotto died during project; made Gothic to match

• Artist: Brunelleschi
• Title: Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1420-1436

Brunelleschi studied roman archect for measurement; most thought he'd copy Pantheon

1. Tribunes (buttresses) on side of dome; semi circular buildings at bottome

2. Ribs- white on top, also like beehive inside (unseen)

3. Lantern - building on top of dome, pushes down on ribs; allows light in

Leonardo DaVinci helped install copper sphere on top; Vasiri painted Fresco on inside of Last Judgement

• Artist: Brunelleschi
• Title: San Lorenzo
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1421-1469

one point perspective perfected

• Artist: Brunelleschi
• Title: Pazzi Chapel
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1440-1461

pendentives, Barrel Vaults, Pilasters

the triangle between barrel vaults

ie on the Pazzi Chapel

• Artist: Alberti
• Title: Palazzo Rucellai
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1452-1470

compares to "Colosseum" w/ columns (Doric; Ionic; Corinthian)

• Artist: Alberti
• Title: Malatesta Temple
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1450

• supposed to be tomb for Malatesta @ second wife
• mirrors "Arch of Constantine" next to Colosseum

• Artist: Alberti
• Title: Sant' Andrea
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1470

• no aisles
• influenced by Basilica of Constantine (3 arches & coffers)

• Artist: Donatello
• Title: St. Mark
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1411-1413

On "Or San Michele"

artist who interviewed other artists of the Early Renaissance and published a book about them

how we know about Donatello's St. Mark

• Artist: Donatello
• Title: David
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1420s - 1450s

• Bronze, first nude since Romans
• made okay b/c it's spiritual
• Laurel garland = victory on hat/standing on
• inspired by "Antinous" statue by Romans
• Contrapposto
• made to go in courtyard of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

• Artist: Donatello
• Title: Feast of Herod
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1425

• made for Baptistry in Sienna
• Head of John the Baptist on platter
• Salome in front requested it
• one point perspective

• Artist: della Robbia
• Title: Madonna and Child
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1455-1460

• Artist: della Quercia
• Title: Creation of Adam
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1425-1438

on San Petronia

• Artist: della Quercia
• Title: Expulsion from Eden
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1425-1438

Eve inspired by "Venus"

• Artist: Masaccio
• Title: Tribute Money
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1427

• One point and Aerial perspective
• shadows in one direction

• Artist: Masaccio
• Title: Expulsion of Adam & Eve from Eden Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1425

• Fresco influ by Della Quercia
• not as violent

• Artist: Lippi
• Title: Madonna & Child with Angels
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1455

• Tempera
• Star of the Sea
• Port of our Salvation
• portrait of Lucretia his wife

• Artist: Castagno
• Title: Last Supper
• Period: Early Renaissance
• Date: 1447

• Harpies on each side
• 33(1/2) links = Jesus age at death
• not full one point perspective

• pagan escorts of souls to hell
• used in "last supper" by Castagno
• looking directly at Judas

• Artist: della Francesca
• Title: Resurrection
• Early Renaissance
• late 1450's

• della Francesca
• Federigo and Battista
• Early Ren
• 1474

• diptych; tempera w/ oil glaze
• aerial perspective

• Pollaiuolo
• Battle of the 10 Nudes
• Early Ren
• 1465

a print; notion of motion (mirror images)

• Pollaiuolo
• Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
• Early Ren
• 1475

• pyramid; mirror images
• St. Sebastian known for healing

• Verrocchio
• David
• Early Ren
• 1465-1470

• cire perdue contrapposto
• probably statue of da Vinci

• Verrocchio
• Doubting of Thomas
• Early Ren
• 1465-1483

cire perdue; on Or San Michele

• Verrocchio
• Bartolommeo Colleoni
• Early Ren
• 1483-1488

"the Magnificent"