Early Italian Renaissance Quattrocento 1400s Linear Perspective Arrives! Quattrocento ARCHITECTURE Filippo Brunelleschi Dome of Florence Cathedral (AKA Brunelleschi’s Dome) 1417–36; Filippo Brunelleschi Foundling Hospital, Florence Designed 1419; built 1421-44 Andrea della Robbia Detail of Terra-Cotta Medallion Filippo Brunelleschi Pazzi Chapel 1442-65 Florence, Italy Filippo Brunelleschi; continued by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Nave, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, : c. 1421–28, 1442–70 Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Façade, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence 1446 •Rusticated first level Leon Battista Alberti Palazzo Rucellai, Florence. 1455–58; never finished •Stringcourse •Pilasters •Beveled stones Leon Battista Alberti Church of Sant’Andrea, Mantua Designed 1470, begun 1472 •1st use of triumphal arch since Ancient Rome Leon Battista Alberti Nave, Church of Sant’Andrea, Mantua Vault width 60’ Designed 1470 Contarini Palace 1421–37 •Guess where? Quattrocento SCULPTURE Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1403, bronze Left: Brunelleschi Right: Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti Gates of Paradise (East Doors), Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence Gilt bronze height 15' (4.57 m) 1425–52 Lorenzo Ghiberti Jacob and Esau , panel of the Gates of Paradise (East Doors), Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence Gilt bronze 1425–52 Sgraffito decoration Palazzo Medici-Riccardi Nanni di Banco The Four Crowned Martyrs Marble height of figures 6’ c. 1409–17 Orsanmichele, Florence (photographed before removal of figures to museum) Donatello Equestrian Monument of Erasmo Da Narni (Gattamelata) Bronze height approx. 12'2” 1443–53 Piazza del Santo, Padua Donatello David, bronze 1420s-60s Florence •Meant for a Medici palace, not for public viewing Donatello Mary Magdalen Polychromy and gold on wood height 6'1" 1450s(?) Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence Andrea del Verrocchio. (Bronze cast by Alessandro Leopardi) Equestrian Monument of Bartolommeo Colleoni Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice Bronze height approx. 13' Clay model 1486–88; cast after 1490; placed 1496 Antonio del Pollaiuolo Hercules and Antaeus Bronze height with base 18” c. 1475 Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence Quattrocento PAINTING & PRINT Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi (detail), tempura on panel, 1423 Int’l Gothic Style Masaccio Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors Fresco 21' X 10"5” c. 1425–27/28 Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence Masaccio The Expulsion From Paradise Fresco 7' X 2' 11” c. 1427 Brancacci Chapel Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Fresco 8'1" X 19'7” c. 1427, Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano, Tempera on wood panel 6' X 10" 7” 1438–40 Commissioned for private Florentine Residence Fra Angelico, Annunciation, Fresco, 7’½" X 19'6”, c. 1438–45, Monastery of San Marco, Florence Andrea del Castagno The Last Supper Fresco 16' x 32’, 1447, Refectory, Convent of Sant’Apollonia, Florence Piero della Francesca Recognition and Proving of the True Cross Fresco, 11'8" X 24'6” San Francesco, Arezzo Piero della Francesca Resurrection fresco c.1463 Palazzo Comunale, San Sepulcro, Italy Piero della Francesca, Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro, Oil on wood pane,l each 18 ½ X 13”, c. 1474, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Andrea Mantegna Room of the Newlyweds Frescoes Diameter of false oculus 8'9” room 62' 6" square 1465–74 Ducal Palace, Mantua Perugino, The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter, Fresco 11'5½" X 18' 8½”, 1481 On the right wall of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome Linear perspective Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, Tempera and gold on canvas 5'8⅞" X 9' 1⅞" c. 1484–86, Uffizi, Florence Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, Tempera on wood panel 6’8” x 10’4” c. 1482 , Uffizi, Florence Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin, fresco, 1485, Santa Maria Novella, Florence Domenico Ghirlandaio Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, Sassetti Chapel Panel, Altarpiece, Santa Trinità, Florence 1485 Gentile Bellini Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse (Computer reconstruction) 15'4" X 8'4” c. 1478 Commissioned for the Chapel of the Hospital of San Giobbe, Venice Gentile Bellini, Saint Francis In Ecstasy Oil and tempera on wood panel 49 x 55⅞" c. 1470’s Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of 10 Naked Men, Engraving, 15 ⅛ X 23¼“, c. 1465–70