UNIT 15 STUDY GUIDE
Italian Art 1400-1500
(AP Art History)
Book
Chapter 21—Humanism and the Allure of Antiquity: 15th Century-Italian Art, Pages 573-612
Helpful Text Boxes—
Depicting Objects in Space: Perspective Systems in the Early Renaissance, p. 578
Imitation and Emulation: Artistic Values in the Renaissance, p. 585
Honoring God and Family: Family Chapel Endowments , p. 589
Terms
be able to identify these by sight, explain these in relation to art, and know an example of each in relation to a work of art
Republic of Florence
sacra conversazione (sacred conversation)
contrapposto
foreshortening
schiacciato
Treatise on Architecture by Alberti (completed in
single or one-point perspective (linear
1452, first published in 1485)
perspective)
Vitruvius (late 1st century B.C. Roman architect)
equestrian monument
Sistine Chapel
International Style
oil paint
chiaroscuro
Flemish painting
atmospheric perspective
Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)
double shell dome
disegno (“drawing with line”)
central plan
Neoplatonism
Medici
sfumato (“smokiness”)
humanism
“triangle composition”
printmaking
Leonardo’s inventions
Art Works engraving
know these works by sight, title, date, medium, scale, and location (original location also if moved) and be able to explain and
analyze these in relation to any concept, term, element, or principle
Art of the Florentine Republic at the beginning of the 15th century
− FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for east doors, baptistery, Florence, Italy, 1401–1402.
Gilded bronze, 1’ 9” x 1’ 5”.
− LORENZO GHIBERTI, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for east doors, baptistery, Florence, Italy, 1401–1402. Gilded
bronze relief, 1’ 9” x 1’ 5”.
− LORENZO GHIBERTI, east doors (Gates of Paradise), baptistery, Florence, Italy, 1425–1452. Gilded bronze, 17’ high.
Modern copy, ca. 1980.
− LORENZO GHIBERTI, Isaac and His Sons (detail of FIG. 21-10), (Gates of Paradise), baptistery, Florence, Italy, 1425–1452.
Gilded bronze, 2’ 7 1/2” x 2’ 7 1/2”.
− Lorenzo Ghiberti, North Doors (set #2), Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence, 1403-1424, bronze
− NANNI DI BANCO, Four Crowned Saints, Or San Michele, Florence, Italy, ca. 1410–1416Marble, figures 6’high.
− DONATELLO, Saint Mark, Or San Michele, Florence, Italy, 1411–1413. Marble, 7’ 9” high.
− DONATELLO, Feast of Herod, panel on the baptismal font of Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1423–1427. Gilded bronze , 1’ 11
1/2 ” x 1’ 11 1/2”.
− DONATELLO, Prophet (Zuccone), from the Florence Campanile, 1423-1425, marble
Later works in Donatello’s career
− DONATELLO, Gattamelata (equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni), Piazza del Santo, Padua, Italy, ca. 1445–1450. Bronze,
2” high.
−12’DONATELLO,
Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata, Padua, Italy, 1447-1453, bronze
Painting in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century
− SLIDE: ***GENTILE DA FABRIANO, Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece from Strozzi Chapel, Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy,
1423. Tempera on wood, approx. 9’ 11” x 9’ 3”.
− SLIDE: ***MASACCIO, Tribute Money, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy, ca. 1427. Fresco, 8’ 4
1/8” x 19’ 7 1/8”.
− SLIDE: ***MASACCIO, Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence,
Italy, ca. 1424–1427. Fresco, 7’ x 2’ 11”.
− SLIDE: ***MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, ca. 1424–1427. Fresco, 21’ 10’ 5/8” x 10’ 4
3/4”.
Architecture in the first half of the 15th century
− FILIPPO BRUNELLLESCHI, cutaway view of the dome of Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy, 1420-1436 ( after Piero
Sanpaolesi).
− FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, facade of the Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, begun ca. 1440.
− FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, plan of the Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence, Italy designed ca. 1423, begun 1442.
− FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI, interior of the Pazzi Chapel (looking northeast), Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, designed ca.1423,
begun 1442, with glazed terracotta roundels by Luca della Robbia.
The Medici as patrons around the middle of the 15th century
− PAOLO UCCELLO, Battle of San Romano, ca. 1455 (?). Tempera on wood, approx. 6’ x 10’ 5”.
− DONATELLO, David, late 1440–1460. Bronze, 5’ 2 1/4” high.
− ANTONIO DEL POLLAIUOLO, Hercules and Antaeus, ca. 1470–1475. Bronze, 1' 6” high with base.
Other artworks in Florence and Italy around the middle of the 15th century
− ANTONIO DEL POLLAIUOLO, Battle of the Ten Nudes, ca. 1465. Engraving. 1 3 1/8” x 1’ 11 1/4” .
− FRA ANGELICO, Annunciation, San Marco, Florence, Italy, ca. 1438–1447. Fresco, 7’ 1” x 10’ 6”.
− ANDREA MANTEGNA, Camera Picta (Painted Chamber), Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy, 1465–1474. Fresco, 8’ 9” in
diameter.
− ANDREA MANTEGNA, Foreshortened Christ, ca. 1500. Tempera on canvas, 2’ 2 3/4” x 2’ 7 7/8”. Pinacoteca di Brera,
Milan.
Painting in Florence in the later half of the 15th century
− Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giovanna Tornabuoni(?), 1488. Oil and tempera on wood, 2’ 6” x 1’ 8”.
− SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484–1486. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5’ 9” x 9’ 2”.
Art at the Sistine Chapel in Rome
− PERUGINO, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Italy, 1481–1483.
Fresco, 11’ 5 1/2” x 18’ 8 1/2”.
Architecture of the later half of the 15th century
− LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Sant’Andrea, Mantua, Italy, designed 1470, begun 1472.
An Umbrian admonition...
− LUCA SIGNORELLI, Damned Cast into Hell, San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy, 1499–1504. Fresco, 23’
wide.