4. What was happening during
the quattrocento?
• Humanism flourished!
• Gutenberg’s printing press
• Wealth & Power
– Condottieri (military leaders)
– Princely Courts
– The Medici Family
16. Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gates of Paradise
Baptistery, Florence Cathedral
1425-1452
gilded bronze relief
approximately 17 ft. high
17. Perspective - constructing convincing illusion of space in 2D
imagery
Linear perspective
Atmospheric perspective
18. Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gates of Paradise
Isaac and His Sons
Baptistery, Florence Cathedral
1425-1452
gilded bronze relief
panel approximately 2 ft. 7 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 7 1/2 in.
34. FLORENTINE PAINTING
Gentile da Fabriano
Adoration of the Magi
Altarpiece
from Santa Trinita,
Florence, Italy
1423
tempera on wood
approximately
9 ft. 11 in. x 9 ft. 3 in.
48. Andrea del Castagno
Last Supper
Refectory monastery of Sant’Apollonia,
Florence, Italy
1447
fresco
approximately 15 x 32 ft.
49.
50.
51. Fra Filippo Lippi, the Florentine bad
boy
Fra Filippo Lippi
Madonna and Child with Angels
ca. 1455
tempera on wood
approximately 3 ft. x 2 ft. 1 in.
52.
53. Domenico Ghirlandaio
Birth of the Virgin
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
1485-1490
fresco
Religious + secular imagery
57. Sandro Botticelli
Medici patronage reflects their sincere
The Birth of Venus love of art and wide and eclectic tastes
ca. 1482
tempera on canvas
5 ft. 8 in. x 9 ft. 1 in.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63. Antonio Pollaiuolo
écorché
Battle of the Ten Nudes
ca. 1465
engraving
approximately 15 x 23 in.
64.
65. Innovations:
-Double shell
-Ribs
-Heavy lantern
Filippo Brunelleschi
dome of Florence Cathedral
Florence, Italy
1420-1436 **Roman influence!
80. Leon Battista Alberti
•First Renaissance architect to understand Roman
Architecture in depth
•Advocated a system of ideal proportions
• central plan as ideal form for Christian
churches
• an arch should be supported by a section
of wall (a pier) and not by a column
• Disposed of medieval arcade used for
centuries
•Applied classical elements to contemporary
buildings
85. Perugino
Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy
1481-1483
fresco
11 ft. 5 1/2 in. x 18 ft. 8 1/2 in.
86.
87.
88. Savonarola – Burn
the vanities! Exile
the Medici!
Luca Signorelli
Damned Cast into Hell
San Brizio Chapel, Orvietto Cathedral,
Orvietto, Italy
1499-1504
fresco
approximately 23 ft. wide
89.
90.
91.
92. “Sacra conversazione”
Piero della Francesca
Enthroned Madonna and Saints
Adored by Federico de Montefeltro
ca. 1472-1474
oil on panel
8 ft. 2 in. x 5 ft. 7 in.
96. How does Alberti combine
classical elements to fit a
Christian purpose?
Leon Battista Alberti
façade of Sant’Andrea
Mantua, Italy
designed ca. 1470
105. Domenico Ghirlandaio
A Man with His Grandchild
ca. 1480-90
oil and tempera on wood
24 3/8 in. x 18 1/8 in.
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