Italian Renaissance

Giotto di bondeone

lamination

chapel 1305-1306

fresco

right before the renaissance; the emotions are being shown to a greater extent and two we begin to see an implied perspective (the two in the front are used to create depth)

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Sacrifice of Isaac

1401-1402; Quattrocento

Gilded bronze

Compared to Filippo Brunelleschi, the sacrifice of Isaac for the competition of the Baptistery doors

Donatello

David

c. 1446-1460; Quattrocento

Bronze.

private commission for Palazzo Medici’s, first full size bronze nude

Perugino

Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

1481; Quattrocento

Fresco on the right wall of the Sistine Chapel

highlights the authority of the pope (jesus gives the keys to Saint Peter); clear single point pers.

history with he apostles+ contemporary figures= important for the renaissance

Masaccio

The Tribute Money

Brancacci Chapel, Florence.

c. 1427; Quattrocento

Fresco.

continuous narrative; three different scenes taking place

• there is single point perspective and atmospheric perspective

Sandro Botticelli

Birth of Venus

c. 1484-1486; Quattrocento

tempera and gold on canvas.

private commission for Medici’s; inspired by a love poem; actually Venus

It is gilded

Neoplatonic painting

Leonardo Da Vinci

Virgin of the Rocks

c. 1485; Quattrocento

oil on wood panel

Sfumato

teaching within (John the Baptists and Jesus); Mary the god barer and the alter

Leonardo de Vinci

Vitruvian Man

c. 1490

ink

an ideal structure for a temple; mirrors the body; he meant to publish

Raphael

Madonna in the Meadow

1505-1506; Quattrocento

oil on wood.

change in Renaissance; everything is symbolic

Michelangelo

David

1501-1504

marble

he creates a narrative with David’s stance, expression, and gaze

made from a block of stone called the giant

Michelangelo

Interior

Sistine Chapel ceiling

1508-1512

fresco.

theme: the creation and fall of man

• beginning with the fall of noah

Titian

Venus of Urbino

c. 1538

oil on canvas.

19th-century female nudes were called “Venus”; the story of the girl in the back packing her marriage trunk and representing what she will become

Pontormo

Entombment of Christ

1525-1528

oil on the wood panel.

An example of a mannerist painting

• sensuality in mannerism does not follow nature’s imbalanced composition (opposite of Renaissance)

• religious piece, alter piece

Raphael

school of Athens

1509-1511

fresco

many important figures

commisions by pope Julius II