Art History 102: Intro to Western

Vocabulary flashcards detailing key 13th and 14th-century Italian artworks, artists, locations, mediums, and dates.

Pulpit of the Baptistery (Pisa)

A 15' high marble pulpit sculpted by Nicola Pisano in Pisa, Italy, dated 1259–1260.

Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds

A marble relief panel on the baptistery pulpit in Pisa, Italy, created by Nicola Pisano in 1259–1260, measuring 2’ 10” x 3’ 9”.

Saint Francis Altarpiece

A tempera on wood panel painted by Bonaventura Berlinghieri for San Francesco in Pescia, Italy in 1235, measuring 5’ x 3’.

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets

A tempera and gold leaf on wood painting created by Cimabue ca. 1280–1290, originally from Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy, measuring 12’ 7” x 7’ 4” and housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Madonna Enthroned (Ognissanti)

A tempera and gold leaf on wood painting by Giotto di Bondone ca. 1310, from the Church of Ognissanti, Florence, Italy, measuring 10’ 8” x 6’ 8” and housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Arena Chapel

Giotto di Bondone, (Cappella Scrovegni; interior looking west), Padua, Italy, 1305–1306.

Lamentation

Giotto di Bondone, in Arena Chapel, (Cappella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6’ 6 3/4” x 6’ 3/4”.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints

Duccio di Buoninsegna, principal panel of the Maestà altarpiece, from the Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1308–1311. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 7’ x 13’. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena.   

Annunciation

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi(?), from the altar of Saint Ansanus, Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1333 (frame reconstructed in the19th century). Tempera and gold leaf on wood, center panel 10’ 1” x 8’ 8 3/4”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Birth of the Virgin

Lorenzetti, from the altar of Saint Savinus, Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1342. Tempera on wood, 6’ 1” x 5’ 11”. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena.   

Peaceful City

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, detail from Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country, Sala della Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy, 1338–1339. Fresco.

Well of Moses

Claus Sluter, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France,
1395–1406. Asnières limestone with, painted and gilded by Jean Maleuel, Moses 6’ high.

Retable de Champmol

Melchior Broederlam, Retable de Champmol. from the chapel of the Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, installed 1399. Oil on wood, each wing 5’ 5 3/4” x 4’ 1 1/4”. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.

Merode Altarpiece

Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), ca. 1425–1428. Oil on wood, center panel 2’ 1 3/8” x 2 7/8”, each wing 2’ 1 3/8” x 10 7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).

January

Limbourg Brothers (Pol, Herman, Jean), January, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Colors and ink on vellum, 8 7/8” x 5 3/8”. Musée Condé, Chantilly.   

Mary of Burgundy at Prayer

Master of Mary of Burgundy, folios 14 verso and 15 recto of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy, ca. 1477. Colors and ink on parchment, illumination on left page 7 3/8” x 5 1/8”. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

Jan van Eyck, 1434. Oil on wood, approx. 2’ 9” x 1’ 10 1/2”. National Gallery, London.  

Man in a Red Turban

Jan van Eyck, 1433. Oil on wood, 1’ 1 1/8” x 10 1/4”. National Gallery, London.

Ghent Altarpiece (closed)

Jan van Eyck, Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, ca. 1423–1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 5” x 7’ 6”.

Ghent Altarpiece (open)

Hubert and Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, ca. 1423–1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 5” x 15’ 1”.  

Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin

Rogier van der Weyden, ca. 1435–1440.
Oil and tempera on wood,
4’ 6 1/8” x 3’ 7 5/8”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson).

Deposition

Rogier van der Weyden, center panel of a triptych from Notre-Dame hors-les-murs, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1435–1442. Oil on wood, 7’ 2 5/8” x 8’ 7 1/8”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Sacrifice of Isaac

FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, competition panel for east doors, baptistery, Florence, Italy, 1401–1402. Gilded bronze, 1’ 9” x 1’ 5”. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Portinari Altarpiece, open)

Hugo van der Goes, from Sant’Egidio, Florence, Italy, ca. 1473–1478. Tempera and oil on wood, center panel 8’ 3 1/2” x 10’,  each wing 8’ 3 1/2” x 4’ 7 1/2”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Loggia of the Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital),

Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence, Italy, begun 1419.

Battle of San Romano

PAOLO UCCELLO, ca. 1455 (?). Tempera on wood, approx. 6’ x 10’ 5”. National Gallery, London.   

Giovanna Tornabuoni(?)

DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO, 1488. Oil and tempera on wood, 2’ 6” x 1’ 8”. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid.

Interior of the Pazzi Chapel

Filippo Brunelleschi, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, begun 1433.

Holy Trinity

MASACCIO, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, ca. 1424–1427. Fresco,  21’ 10’ 5/8” x 10’ 4 3/4”.   

Birth of Venus

SANDRO BOTTICELLI, ca. 1484–1486. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5’ 9” x 9’ 2”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

West facade of Santa Maria Novella

Leon Battista Alberti, Florence, Italy, ca. 1456–1470.

Tribute Money

MASACCIO, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy, ca. 1427. Fresco, 8’ 4 1/8” x 19’ 7 1/8”.   

Facade of the Pazzi Chapel

Filippo Brunelleschi, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, begun 1433.

Cutaway view of the dome of Florence Cathedral

FILIPPO BRUNELLLESCHI, Florence, Italy, 1420-1436

Madonna and Child with Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi,
ca. 1460–1465. Tempera on wood,  2’ 11 1/2”. x 2’ 1”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Interior court of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, Florence, Italy, begun 1445.

Saint George and the Dragon

Donatello, relief below the statue of Saint George (Fig. 16-6), Or San Michele, Florence, Italy, ca. 1417–1420. Marble, 1’ 3 1/4” x 3’ 11 1/4”, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

Saint Mark

DONATELLO, Or San Michele, Florence, Italy, 1411–1413. Marble, 7’ 9” high. Modern copy in exterior niche. Original sculpture in museum on second floor of Or San Michele,  Florence.

David

DONATELLO, late 1440–1460. Bronze, 5’ 2 1/4” high. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.  (First free-standing nude statue since antiquity.  Notice the contrapposto. Nudity used to portray a Biblical hero rather than as an allegory for sinfulness (Medieval mentality))

Adoration of the Magi

GENTILE DA FABRIANO, altarpiece from Strozzi Chapel, Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy, 1423. Tempera on wood, approx. 9’ 11” x 9’ 3”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Isaac and His Sons

Lorenzo Ghiberti, , east doors (Gates of Paradise) of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, Italy, 1425–1452. Gilded bronze, 2’ 7 1/2” x 2’ 7 1/2”. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence.

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, Florence, Italy, begun 1445.

Birth of the Virgin

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cappella Maggiore, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, 1485–1490. Fresco, 24’ 4” x 14’ 9”

Madonna of the Rocks

Leonardo da Vinci, from San Francesco Grande, Milan, Italy, 1483–1490. Oil on wood (transferred to canvas), 6’ 6 1/2” x 4’. Musée du Louvre, Paris.   

Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1495–1498. Oil and tempera on plaster, 13’ 9”x 29’ 10”. Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.   

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci ca. 1503–1505. Oil on wood, 2’ 6 1/4” x 1’ 9”. Musée du Louvre, Paris.   

Philosophy (School of Athens)

Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Rome, Italy,
1509–1511. Fresco, 19’ x 27’.

Tempietto

Donato D’Angelo Bramante, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Italy, begun 1502.

Reverse side of a medal showing Bramante’s design for Saint Peter’s

Christoforo Foppa Caradosso 1506. Bronze, 2 1/4” diameter. British Museum, London.   

David

Michelangelo Buonarroti, from Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy, 1501–1504. Marble, 17’ high. Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence.

Pietá

Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1498–1500. Marble, 5’ 8 1/2” high. Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome.

ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michalengelo Buonarroti, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1508–1512. Fresco, 128’ x 45’.

Creation of Adam

Michelangelo Buonarroti, detail of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Fig. 17-17) , Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1511–1512. Fresco, 9’ 2” x 18’ 8”.

Last Judgment

Michelangelo Buonarroti, altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (Fig. 17-18), Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1536–1541. Fresco, 48’ x 44’.

courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Rome, Italy,
ca. 1517–1546. Third story and attic by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1546–1550.

Villa Rotonda

Andrea Palladio, near Vicenza, Italy, ca. 1550–1570.

Feast of the Gods

Giovanni Bellini, from the Camerino d’Alabastro, Palazzo Ducale, Ferrara, Italy, 1514; repainted in part by Titian, 1529. Oil on canvas, 5’ 7” x  6’ 2”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Widener Collection).

Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne

Titian, from the Camerino d’Alabastro, Palazzo Ducale, Ferrara, Italy, 1522–1523. Oil on canvas, 5’ 9” x 6’ 3”. National Gallery, London.

Pastoral Symphony

Titian, ca. 1508–1511. Oil on canvas, 3’ 7 1/4” x 4’ 6 1/4”. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Venus of Urbino

Titian, 1536–538. Oil on canvas, 3’ 11” x 5’ 5”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Madonna with the Long Neck

Parmigianino, from the Baiardi Chapel, Santa Maria dei Servi, Parma, Italy, 1534–1540. Oil on wood, 7’ 1” x 4’ 4”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time

Bronzino, ca. 1546. Oil on wood, 5’ 1” x 4’ 8 1/4”. National Gallery,
London.

Last Supper

Tintoretto, 1594. Oil on canvas, 12’ x 18’ 8”. San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

Christ in the House of Levi

Paolo Veronese, from the refectory of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice,
Italy, 1573. Oil on canvas, 18’ 3” x 42’. Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice.

Triumph of Venice

Paolo Veronese, ca. 1585. Oil on canvas, 29’ 8” x 19’. Ceiling of the Hall of the Grand Council, Doge’s Palace, Venice.

Money-Changer and His Wife

Quinten Massys, 1514. Oil on wood, 2’ 3 3/4” x 2’ 2 3/8”.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Isenheim Altarpiece (closed)

Matthias Grünewald, from the chapel of the Hospital of Saint Anthony, Isenheim, Germany, ca.1512–1515. Oil on wood, 9’ 9 1/2” x 10’ 9”, (center panel), 8’ 2 1/2” x 3’ ½” (each wing),
2’ 5 1/2” x 11’ 2” (predella). Painted and gilt limewood, 9’ 9 1/2” x 10’ 9”. Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar.