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1386
Donatello (ca. 1386 - 1466)
-St. Mark. 1413
-Bruncelleschi’s friend, also an unkempt bachelor
-Worked for the Medici family
-Very prolific
-Temper!
-Made illusions with perspective -
1409
" David"
by Donatello -
1440
David, bronze
Donatello,
-First nude
-Pre-teen Dionysis
-Sexual, androgynous
-Feather in the back
-Contraposto (asymmetrical arrangement of the
human figure)
-Placed in the Medici courtyard
“Behold, a boy overcomes the great tyrant. A conquer, o citizens.” -
1445
Fra. (Beato) Angelico, The Annunciation,
Fresco -
1447
Andrea del Castagno,
"Last Supper"
fresco, Florence, -
1450
Pitti Tondo,
Filippo Lippi,
-Tondo
-Usually a gift to high society woman after birth
-Pomegranate to symbolize blood -
1453
, Gallamelatta, Padua, completed in
Donatello -
1455
Filippo Lipi, Madonna and Child with angels,
Tempra on wood -
1470
Andrea del Verrochio,
"David"
Bronze. Florence. -
1472
A.Verrochio and Leonardo
"the Baptism of Christ"
Tempera and oil on wood -
1473
Leonardo da Vinci,
"The Annunciation" -
1474
Andrea Montegna,
Camera Deghi Spoci, Fresco,
-Trompe l’Oeil
-Di Sotto in Su (from above, up)
-Foreshortening
-Peacock of marriage -
1475
Leonardo Da Vinci
Gionerva de Benci
oil on wood -
1480
Ghirlandario
" Last Supper"
Fresco -
1482
Alessandro “Sandro” Boticelli,
"Birth of Venus"
-Tempera on wood -Ovid, “Metamorpheses”
-“Go-to” for mythology
-Aurora - Goddess of Early Morning
-Zepher - God of Wind
-3 Graces of Aphrodite
-Kythera
Commission for Medici -
1483
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Study of the Angel’s head in The Virgin on the Rocks" -
1483
Leonardo Da Vinci,
"Madonna of the Rocks", Louvre, Paris,
-San Francesco Grande, Milan
-Sfumata (smokey)
-Pyramidal composition
-Arm around St. John
-Botany, geology, anatomy, chiaroscuro
-Beginning of High Renaissance
-Credited with first painting of nature -
1484
Sandro Boticelli,
"La Primavera"
Tempera on wood -
1487
Leonardo da Vinci
"Vitruvian Man" -
1490
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Grotesque heads" -
1490
Leonardo Da Vinci
, "Lady with Ermine", oil on wood
16 or 17 years old
Ludovico’s mistress -
1492
Lorenzo Il Magnifico born 1449
-Golden age for the Medici
-Mutilation of enemies
-Destroyed a town
-Poet, patron, diplomat
-Neo-platonic Academy
-Takes in Michelangelo
-Humanist Scholar
-M. Ficino, P. della Mirandella, A. Poliziano
Patronage was public relations -
1498
Savonarola (1452-
Dominican monk
“Fiery Sermons”
-Anti-Humanist
-“Florence will be the new Jerusalem.”
-“Bonfire of Vanities”
Collections of “sins” -
1498
Leonardo Da Vinci, ,
The Last Supper, Louvre, Fresco
-Bronze equestrian statue never finished
-Oil + Tempera
-Flaking within the first 10 years
1726 Restoration
-Mold on walls, covered with curtains
-Napoleon’s army
-Allied bombings during WW2
-No halo to humanize
-1 point perspective (Everything goes to Him) -
1500
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Study of Nutcracker man + youth" -
1501
Andrea Mantegna (a. 1431 - 1506),
"Dead Christ" -
1505
Leonardo Da Vinci
, Mona Lisa (La Giaconda), Louvre, . Oil on wood.
-Much darker now and painting was once wider
50 good copies exist
-Stolen in 1911 by Vincenzo “Macaroni” Petrugia
-Patriotic duty
-Made tour of USA in 1962
-Lisa di Maria Ghecodini, 24
-Wife at Francesco de Giacondo
-Vasari writes about her eyebrows
-Sfumato
-Engages the view psychologically
“The Cult of the Mona Lisa -
1519
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-
-San Piero da Vinci
-Notary
Caterina
“Basardo”
-Andrea de Verrochio
-Disliked sculpture
“La Pittura est la poetria visuale”
-Not prolific (20 paintings)
-Vegetarian, played the lute, hated seeing birds in cages, GAY
-“Renaissance Man”
Engineering, optics, hydralics, anatomy, zoology, architecture, botony, flight, psychologist, cartoonist, helicopter, tank, sculpture
