Art 26: 15th-Century Europe (Early Renaissance)
EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, Italy
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
Filippo Brunelleschi
Dome of Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy
Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for east doors,
Baptistery of Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy
Castagno, Andrea del, Last Supper, fresco, from the refectory, monastery
Of Sant’ Apollonia, Florence, Italy
Donatello
David
Gattamelata (equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni), Piazza del Santo,
Padua, Italy
Saint Mark
Fra Angelico, Annunciation, fresco, San Marco, Florence, Italy
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for east doors,
Baptistery of Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy
“Gates of Hell,” east doors, baptistery of Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy
Andrea Mantegna
frescoes in the Camera Picta/Camera degli Sposi (Room of the Newlyweds),
Ducal Palace (Palazzo Ducale), Mantua Italy
Dead Christ
Masaccio
Holy Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and Donors, Santa
Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Tribute Money, fresco in the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine,
Florence, Italy
Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, façade of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence,
Italy
Pietro Perugino, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, fresco,
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy
Piero della Francesca
Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro
Finding of the True Cross and Proving of the True Cross, fresco, San
Francesco, Arezzo, Italy
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Ten Nudes
Andrea del Verrocchio
David
Bartolommeo Colleoni (equestrian statue), Campo dei Santi Giovanni e
Paolo, Venice, Italy
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EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights. Creation of Eve (left wing),
Garden of Earthly Delights (center panel), Hell (right wing)
Robert Campin and assistants (Master of Flémalle), Mérode Altarpiece
(open) (Triptych of the Annunciation)
Limbourg Brothers (Pol/Paul, Hennequin/Jean, Herman) Page with February,
From Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Sumptuous Hours of
the Duke of Berry)
Claus Sluter, Well of Moses, cloister of the Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon,
France
Jan van Eyck
The Annunciation
Man in a Red Turban
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and His Wife, Giovanna Cenami (?)
Rogier van der Weyden
Deposition, center panel of a triptych
Vocabulary:
Annunciation
atmospheric perspective
Carthusian monastery
chartreuse (charter house)
condottieri
context
Crucifixion
Deposition
diptych
donor and/or patron
engraving
equestrian portrait
Flanders
Fresco
genre painting
guild
Guild of Saint Luke
Holy Trinity
humanism
intuitive perspective
linear or mathematical perspective
majolica
narrative
nativity
neoplatonism
oil paint
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orthogonals
pilaster
polyptych
putto (putti, pl.)
Renaissance
rustication
symbolism
tableaux vivants (mystery plays)
triptych
vanishing point
Who was who?
Bartolommeo Colleoni
Gattamelata
Erasmo da Narni
Medici family (Cosimo de’; Lorenzo de’)
Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy
Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy
Duke of Berry
Battista Sforza
Federico da Montefeltro
Savonarola
Ludovico Gonzaga
Giovanni Arnolfini
Giovanna Cenami
Crossbowmen's Guild
Geography:
Centers of Painting in the North
Bruges
Brussels
Ghent
Louvain
Haarlem
Centers of Painting in the South
Florence
Rome
Venice
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