Art History Midterm

Santa Maria Fiore timeline

1100 - designs duomo

1300 - front drawing - cathedral built

1400 - floor

1865 - permanent front

Baptistery + Belltower

850 CE + 1330

Last set of walls :

1333

Arnolfo Di Cambio

1230-1310

Architect

designs Palazzo Di Signoria (Vecchio) + Cathedral 1330

Dante

1333 - separate church and state

Dantes inferno

The SMF dome was built:

1300-1420

Florence becomes the capital of Italy

1865

centuries of art

1300 - gothic

1400 - renaissance

1500 - high renaissance

1600s - baroque

1700 - the enlightenment

1800 - romanticism

Santa Maria Fiore is est by:

the Domenicans — San Domenic Guzman 1220

Giotto Di Bondone

1267 - 1337

- chiaroscuro

- belltower 1330ce

- bardi chapel + st. francis

- the crucifix

- the death of saint francis

- renaissance leader

Coppo Di Marcovaldo

- St. Francis image

- 2D

- birds in tree

Charoscuro

- shading technique

- 3D communication of space

- perspective

Cimabue

- Maestà for Santa Trinity, 1280, uffizi gallery 1280

- almost cubism

- more traditional

Filipinos Lippi

- mary in contemporary clothing

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Donatello

- 1386-1466

- revives classical sculpture and art

- introduces low relief

- Saint George

- contraposto

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moment of maximum tension

Cosimo the Elder

- Neoplatonic Academy

- wants to be different with money

- wants his kids to read + write

- collects books —> monasteries

- church books

Optical correction

favors the line of the viewer

4 gospel statues on the SMF

Masaccio

- Start of renaissance

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Michaelangelo

Tondo Doni 1507 - humanity of Jesus, naked figures in back

- pietras

- distinct colors

Compare the Madonna

Cimabue - 1280, gothic, 2D, contemporary

Giotto - 1310, more lifelike, shading, 3D

Compare crucifix 1415

Donatello - naturalistic, peasant jesus, emotion

Brunelleschi - idealized, more classical

South Baptistry Door

- 1330 - 36

- Andrea Pisano

- John the baptist

- for the baptized to enter

- quatrefoil

- gothic

East Baptistry Door

- 1425-52

- Lorenzo Ghiberti

- competition with Brunelleschi

- gates of paradise

- moment of maximum tension

- stories from OT -

- favors viewer perspective

- squares not quatrofoil

- puts himself and son on the door

Lorenzo Ghiberti

North Baptistry Door

1403-1324

- Ghiberti

- guilded bronze

- quatrefoils

- NT (life of christ)

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Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany

Bronze David

- Donatello

- palazzo Di Medici

- contraposto

- classical influence

- naked (hat and boots)

- could be mercury

Intuitive perspective

An artistic approach where objects are placed smaller in the distance without a single vanishing point, common in pre-Renaissance art.

Vasari

- Duke Cosimo I

- wrote "the lives" - 1550

- kept record of famous artists during the renasissance

Major Art houses

Christie's + Sotheby's

intuitive

giotto, more interpretive, emotion driven

caravaggio

1600, baroque

- calling of saint matthew

- realism, emotion, light

Chapel of the maggi

- Benozzo Gozo - 1349

- council of florence 1430

- hidden medici message

- reds and vibrant colors

Palazzo di Medici

1444 commissioned by cosimo th elder

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symbol of the ricardi

the key

symbols of medici

feather + oranges + balls