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Ucello

Battle of San Romano

1440s

 

foreshortening of horse

seccular

most monumental piece

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Donatello

David

1440s

 

body of an adolecent

standing on head of Goliath

earliest suriving nearly lifesize nude

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Michelozzo

Medici Palace

1444

 

rustification

Medici shield

medieval architecture

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Rossellino

Rucellai Palace

1446

 

features roundels

features the Rucellai coat of arms

classical elements

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Alberti

Malatesta Temple

1450

 

incomplete

roundels framed with wreaths

triumphal arches

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Della Francesca

Baptism of Christ

1452

 

tree of knowledge

main altarpiece

christ in slight contrapasto pose

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Della Francesca

Madonna and Child with Saints

1472

 

coffered celing

Mary seen as new Venus

scallop shell and coral neclace, products of the sea

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Donatello

Mary Magdalen

1455

 

wood

slight contrapasto

aged and worn

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Botticelli

La Primavera

1480

 

continuous narrative

pagan thought

Madonna or Venus?

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Botticelli

Birth of Venus

1480

 

Madonna of the sea

goddess in contrapasto pose

anatomy of a classical figure

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Mantenga

San Zeno Altarpiece

1456

 

fruit=fertility

coral beads=rebirth

scenes inserted in ancient temple front

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Mantenga

St.Sebastian

1450

 

naturalism

ancient architectural and sculptural ruins

resembles Roman buildings

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Gentile Bellini

Portrait of Sultan Mehmet II

1480

 

Islamic cloth draped

knight of Ottoman Empire

round arches, square columns

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Gentile Bellini

Procession of the Reliquary of the True Cross

1496

 

Byzantine church

civic harmony

oil on canvas 

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Giovanni Bellini

Madonna of the Meadow

1500

 

 less sculptural figures

illusion of death (crow)

iconography (shows mary's future) 

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Giovanni Bellini

San Zaccaria Altarpiece

1505

 

features St.Lucy

corinthian pilasters

egg=virgin's birth 

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Giovanni Bellini

St.Francis

1485

 

skull=death of christ

rock curves in response to outstretched arms

barefoot=standing on holy ground 

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Verocchio

Baptism of Christ

1470

 

angels done by Da Vinci

dove of the holy spirit

black bird=death

 

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Da Vinci

Annunciation

1470

 

sfumato technique

sarcophugus foreshortened

w/ scallop shell=rebirth

 

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Da Vinci

Vitruvian Man 

1485

 

done in pen and ink

located in Venice

shows the symmetry of a man 

 

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Da Vinci

Lady with Ermine

1485

 

mistress

ermine used for capes of kings and queens

makes her look royal 

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Da Vinci

The Last Supper

1495

 

1 point perspective to head of Christ

problematic figure to left of christ (Mary?)

arms open, precursor to crucifixtion 

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Da Vinci

Madonna and Child with St.Anne

1503

 

sfumato technique

lamb=lamb of god

Christ is the good shepherd 

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Da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1503

 

sfumato technique

located in the Louvre

different pallette for foreground and background 

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