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• Compare and Contrast: St. Matthew the Evangelist from the Gospel book and
The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Fillip Lippi
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• Cupola- rounded convex roof, dome of small size
• Tondo- round shaped painting (The Adoration of
the Magi)
• Foreshortening- method of applying
perspective to an object or figure so
that it seems to recede
making it appear 3d
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• Compare and contrast Reims Cathedral to
Brunelleschi’s Cathedral of Florence.
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• Renaissance- Rebirth of greatness
• Going back to Greek and Roman ideals
• Four Big Breakthroughs:
• Oil on stretched canvas
• Perspective
• Use of light and shadow/ Chiaroscuro(Light/dark)
• Pyramid configuration
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Architect and sculptor
“Renaissance man”
Discovered scientific perspective- accurately showing
3d forms on paper
Initiated new style of building
Measured and studied Roman buildings and remains
1418- won competition to design dome over Florence
Cathedral
Designed system of hoists- elimnated scaffolding and
ramps
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San
Lorenzo
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• Lorenzo Ghiberti
• 1401 competition
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
20+ yrs to finish
More commission- impressed
Used pictorial space and one-point perspective
Worked with light to create space- how?
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Ghiberti
Gate of
Paradise
1425-1452
Gilt Bronze
Relief
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Masaccio
Founder of early Renaissance painting
“Sloppy Tom”
First since Giotto to paint beings not as linear
column
• Studied Gentile de Fabriano and Giotto
• Used light to create depth
• Atmospheric perspective
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Masaccio, Tribute Money, 1427, Fresco
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Donatello
Recaptured Classical sculpture
Contrapposto
David- first freestanding nude since Classical- lost
wax casting
• Symbolism- head of Goliath, Duke of Milan/ David,
Florence
• Decoration in Medici garden
• Brutal naturalism/ capable of movement
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Donatello
Gattamelata
1445-1450
Bronze
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Donatello
David 1430-32
Bronze
Mary Magdalen
Bronze
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Sandro Botticelli
Decorative linear style- Byzantine throwback
Rebirth of Classical mythology
Fine outline, smooth lines
Allegorical- Venus, water, Spring- Christ, baptism and
John
Rebirth of humanity
One of first on canvas, not wood panel
Addition of self portrait
Complex arrangement of figures
Pyramid configuration
Pope Sixtus IV commission- Sistine Chapel
Neoplatonism- reconcile Classical philosophies with
Christianity
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Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482, tempera on canvas
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Botticelli
The Adoration of
the Magi
1470’s early
Tempera on
panel
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Botticelli, Primavera, 1477-1482, Tempera
on canvas
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• Stop and Research:
• Neoplatonism vs Humanism
• Why were Neoplatonists able to “read” Birth of
Venus so easily?
• What contemporary visual allegories can students
document and explain? What will viewers in the
future have to know to interpret these works?
(commercials, music videos, etc…)
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Fra Angelico
Late Gothic painter Guido di Piero
Careful perspective
Frailty of people
Master landscape painter
Introduced tondo painting
depth of space
Foreshadowing of genre
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Fra
Angelico
The
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1440-1450
Fresco
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• Donatello brought interest in perspective, etc to
Venetian art
• 11 year stay in Padua
• Andrea Mantegna
• Dead Christ
• 1466
• Canvas
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• No Questions!
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