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ARTH 340 Early Renaissance Art in Italy,
1300-1480

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with thanks to Marta Staudinger


Prologue: The Dugento (1200s, 13th century)

The Florentine Trecento (1300s, 14th century)

  • Cimabue, The Madonna in Majesty (Maestà), 1285-86
    Tempera on wood panel, 385 x 223 cm
    Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
    Originally over the high altar of Sta.Trinità, Florence
  • Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna (Madonna in Maestà) c. 1310
    Tempera on wood panel, 325 x 204 cm
    Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
    Originally in the church of the Ognissanti in Florence
 
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Giotto and Monumental Narrative at The Arena Chapel, Padua,

views of the interior and narrative scenes in the Arena Chapel, Padua; frescoes by Giotto, 1303-06 diagram of layout

Meeting at the Golden Gate, Nativity, Kiss of Judas, Crucifixion, Lamentation, Scrovegni Offering the model of the chapel.
 

14th Century Siena. 

  • Duccio, Enthroned (Rucellai) Madonna, 1285, tempera on wood panel,
    450 x 290 cm; formerly Rucellai Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
    now Uffizi.
  • Duccio, Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints), 1308-11; front panel,
    and views of the reconstructed altarpiece, front and back; Tempera on wood,
    214 x 412 cm; details of narrative scenes including, the Nativity (Nat Gal),
    Temptation of Christ (Frick collection), Entry into Jerusalem (Siena),
    Crucifixion (Siena), High altarpiece of Siena Cathedral until 1505, now
    Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
  • Simone Martini, Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints), 1315 Fresco,
    763 x 970 cm, Sala del Mappamondo (formerly Sala del Consiglio), Palazzo
    Pubblico, Siena
  • Simone Martini, St. Louis of Toulouse, c 1317 Tempera on wood 200 x
    138 cm (without predella) Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte Naples
  • Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation, 1333, Tempera on
    wood, 184 x 210 cm, formerly chapel of Sant'Ansano of the Cathedral in
    Siena, now Uffizi
  • Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Sala dei Nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena; Allegory
    of the Good Government in the City    ,1, 2, and in the Country, 1, 2, 3,
    1338-40 Fresco

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Siena, Campo

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 Strozzi Chapel, Sta Maria Novella

After Giotto in Florence, the mid 14th C. 

 

Early 15th-century Florence: a Math Culture

  • Brunelleschi, competition panel for Baptistery North Doors, The Sacrifice
    of Isaac;     parcel-gilt bronze, 45 x 38 cm. (Florence: Bargello) comm. by
    the Arte della Calimala.
  • Ghiberti, competition panel for Baptistery North Doors, The Sacrifice
    of Isaac     parcel-gilt bronze, 45 x 38 cm. (Florence: Bargello) comm.
    by the Arte della Calimala.
  • Ghiberti, Baptistery North Doors, Annunciation, Flagellation [52 x 45 cm], 
    1403-24, reliefs largely modelled by 1417; bronze; originally the East doors
    of the Baptistery, but moved to the north.
  • Brunelleschi, Ospedale degli Innocenti (exterior view).  begun 1421 on
    commission from the Arte della Seta (silkworkers guild).
  • Brunelleschi, San Lorenzo (ground plan and interior views),  comm. by
    neighborhood residents including Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, c. 1418-66;
    nave built under Cosimo de' Medici, after 1442.
  • Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, comm. Lenzi family, c. 1426-7.
    6.67 x 3.17 m. fresco.

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Or San Michele, Florence

  • Donatello, St. George, c. 1410-15, marble, 6’10”, Corazzai (Armorers' Guild) and relief sculpture beneath, St. George and the Dragon, c. 1417
  • Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13, marble  Arte dei Linaiuoli (Linen Drapers' Guild) .
  • Ghiberti, St John the Baptist, c. 1412/13-17, bronze, 8’4” Arte della Calimala commission. E. side, Or San Michele.originally partially gilt.
  • Nanni di Banco, Quattro Santi Coronati and relief sculpture beneath, Sculptors at Work c. 1414-16, marble, 6’, Pietra e Legname
  • Andrea del Verrocchio, Christ and St. Thomas
 

15th century Florentine (mostly) altarpieces. All tempera on panel, unless indicated.

  • Lorenzo Monaco, Coronation of the Virgin, 1414, comm. Frasca family,
    5.12 x 4.5 m; altarpiece and predella detail of Nativity, orig. high altarpiece
    for the Camaldolite church of Sta. Maria degli Angeli, Florence, now Uffizi.
  • Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi (Palla Strozzi Altarpiece for
    Sta.Trinità), 300x282, signed and dated 1423, also predella of the Nativity
    and The Flight into Egypt.
  • Masaccio, The Pisa Polyptych, including Enthroned Madonna and Child, tempera on panel (central panel, 135 x 73 cm. now National Gallery, London), and Crucifixion (Capodimonte, Naples) and predella, The Crucifixion of Peter (Berlin), comm. by Ser Giuliano di Colino degli Scarsi da San Giusto for a chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa.
  • Fra Angelico, Descent from the Cross-, S. Marco, 1434.  Commissioned
    by Palla Strozzi for Sta.Trinità, Florence.
  • Fra Angelico, Madonna and Saints, 1438, and details, 1, 2. Comm by
    Cosimo and Lorenzo de’ Medici for the high altar of San Marco, Florence. 
    2.2 x 2.27 m. Now Museo di San Marco, Florence
  • Fra Filippo Lippi, Tarquinia Madonna, 1437, comm. by Archbishop
    Giovanni Vitelleschi, 114 x 65 cm.(now Rome, Galleria Nazionale).
  • Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy Altarpiece, 1445; orig. high altar
    of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli, Florence, 1.98 x 2.07 m. (now Uffizi),
    and predellas Annunciation (Cambridge) and St. John the Baptist
    (Washington). 

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Narrative programs in Florence and Arezzo
 

  The Medici Palace and its contents

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Portraying Women
 

North Italian Courts: The Patronage of Federigo da Montefeltro,
Duke of Urbino

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botticelli

Late 15th century altarpieces/chapels in Florence
 

The patronage of Pope Sixtus IV in Rome

Religious painting in Florence in the 2nd half of the 15th century;

 

  Mythology and court culture

  • Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1485, Egg tempera and oil on poplar
    69.2 x 173.4 cm. (London: National Gallery).
  • Botticelli, Primavera c. 1482, panel, 6’8” x 10’ 4” ( Florence, Uffizi).  
  • Botticelli, Birth of Venus c. 1484-86, canvas 5’9” x 9’ 2” ( Florence, Uffizi).
  • Mantegna, Parnassus 1497, 1,59 m x 1,92 m; formerly the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este, Mantua: Palazzo Ducale (now: Paris, Louvre).  

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15th Century religious painting in Venice and the Veneto. 

Oil painting comes to Venice