Renaissance Art and Architecture

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Leon Battista Alberti

First theorist of the Renaissance; first treatises on art after antiquity

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Giorgio Vasari

First biographer of Italian artists, mid-1500s

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Arnolfo di Cambio

First architect of the Florentine cathedral, 1296; one of the biggest Christian churches. Today: 4th largest. Decision to build dome 1367, only built first half 15th century

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Competition panels

Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Issac. Seven participants, two finalists, Ghiberti wins

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Ghiberti’s Sacrifice of Issac

Bronze, 1402-03

<p>Bronze, 1402-03</p>
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Brunelleschi’s Sacrifice of Issac

Bronze, 1402-03

<p>Bronze, 1402-03</p>
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Second set of doors: Ghiberti’s first doors

28 panels: Life of Christ (Annunciation, Adoration of Magi, Baptism of Christ, Last Supper, Crucifixion)

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Third set of doors: Ghiberti’s second doors

Gates of Paradise, 10 panels Old Testament Scenes, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel

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Orsanmichele

Originally building served as granary for Florence – also meeting place for guilds. Each guild had to commission statue of respective patron saint

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Ghiberti: St. John the Baptist (1412-17), bronze

First life-size bronze statue since antiquity, guild skeptical. Patron saint of Florence and wool guild

<p>First life-size bronze statue since antiquity, guild skeptical. Patron saint of Florence and wool guild</p>
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Donatello, St. Mark (1411-13), marble

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Donatello’s works

David (1443), bronze

Gattamelata (1445-53), bronze

Mary Magdalene (1450), painted wood

Judith and Holofernes, 1460, bronze

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Masaccio’s frescoes in Brancacci

Expulsion from Paradise

Tribute Money

Healing with His Shadow

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Masolino’s frescoes in Brancacci

Temptation

Healing a Cripple and Raising of Tabitha

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Masaccio, Trinty (1425), fresco

First use of linear perspective in a wall painting

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Fra Angelico, Crucifixion (1441-42), fresco

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Fra Angelico, San Marco Altarpiece (1438-43), tempera on panel

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Filippo Lippi, Coronation of the Virgin (1439-47), tempera on panel

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Fillipo Lippi, Annunciation (1440), tempera on panel

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Man, lion, bull/ox, eagle

Symbols of the four evangelists, Mt Mk Lk Jn

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Church, cloister, refectory, chapter room, dormitory cells, gardens, kitchen

Features of a convent or monastery

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White dove

Holy Spirit

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White lily

Virginity

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Closed garden

Virginity

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Cypress tree

Death

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INRI

Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

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Pelican

Self-sacrifice

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