Early Renaissance

The Holy Trinity. (1407)

-Masaccio

-Fresco

-Linear Perspective

-Realism

-Focus on Humanism

-allegory

Dome of Florence Cathedral. (1420-1436)

-Filippo Brunelleschi

-Florence, Italy

-Roman architectural principles

- Mathematical Precision

-Symbol of Civic Pride and Human Achievement

-triumph of the human intellect

Façade for Santa Maria Novella. (1458)

-Leon Battista Alberti

-Florence, Italy

-Geometrical Precision

-balanced proportions

-symbolism(religious subject)

St. George. (1420)

-Donatello

-Marble

-Naturalism and Humanism

-Contrapposto

-symbolic(popular heroic saint)

David. (1430-1432)

-Donatello

-Bronze

-contrapposto

-Naturalism, proper human anatomy

-freestanding

-humanism

Primavera. (1482)

-Sandro Botticelli

-Tempera on panel

-focus on Greek and Roman mythology

-allegory(love and marriage)'

-symbolism of each person(Goddess of love, flowers and spring)

Birth of Venus. (1482)

-Sandro Botticelli.

-Tempera on canvas

-Classical influence(birth of both goddesses

-venus is the ideal beauty

-Neoplatonism(spiritual/divine love)