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Dome of Florence Cathedral Filippo Brunelleschi 1417-1436 *credited with discovery of Linear Perspective |
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Facade, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Florence
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
c.1446 |
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| a horizontal band (as of bricks) in a building forming a part of the design (e.g. Medici city palace by Michelozzo c1446) |
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An open internal courtyard enclosed by the walls of a large building.
First used by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
c.1446 on the Medici city palace. |
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The Four Crowned Martyrs
Orsanmichele, Florence
Nanni di Banco
c.1409-1417 |
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Gates of Paradise
East Doors - Bapistry of San Giovanni, Florence
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1425-1452
gilt bronze
*won a sculpture competition |
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David
Donatello
c.1446-1460
bronze
*first free-standing nude since antiquity |
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| A leader of mercenary soldiers between the 14th and 16th centuries. |
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| in its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing. In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a graver, or burin. Furrows are cleanly cut out, raising no burr, and then filled with ink which is transferred under high pressure to the printing surface of the press. |
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| The technique of painting objects in the distance with soft, cool colors |
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| A form of perspective in drawing and painting in which parallel lines are represented as converging so as to give the illusion of depth and distance. |
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| The Italian religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) became dictator of Florence in the 1490s and instituted there, in the middle of the Renaissance, a reign of purity and asceticism. |
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Equestrian Statue of Gattemelata
(Erasmo di Narni)
Donatello
1443-53
bronze, 12" tall
- thoughtful, expressive (possibly sad/tragic) |
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Equestrian Monument of Bartolommeo Colleoni
Andrea del Verrocchio
c.1490
- vitality & brutal energy vs. Donatello
- left money for his own monument |
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Battle of the Nudes
Antonio Pollaiuolo
c.1465-70
engraving
- human dissection to study anatomy |
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Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors
Masaccio
c.1425-27
fresco
-linear perspective esp. barrel vaulted niche |
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The Tribute Money
Brancacci Chapel
Masaccio
c.1427
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Battle of San Romano
Niccolò da Tolentino Leads the Florentine Troops
Paolo Uccello
c.1450
tempera on wood
-preoccupation with perspective & older painting style |
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Facade, Church of Sant' Andrea
Leon Battista Alberti
c1458-70
-A combined temple front and triumphal arch
-No side aisles breaks w/christian church
*Renaissance scholar = "universal man" |
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Oculus, Camera Picta, Ducal Palace, Mantua
Andrea Mantegna
c.1465-74
fresco
-tower chamber in the Gonzaga palace |
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Camera Picta
View of the West & North walls
Andrea Mantegna
c.1465-74
fresco |
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Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter
Perugino
c.1481
fresco right side of Sistine Chapel, Rome |
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St. Job Altarpiece
Madonna and Child, Three Musical Angels, and SS. Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse
Giovanni Bellini
c.1480
tempera on panel
-a venetian painter
-brother of Gentile Bellini (procession of the relic)
-brother in law of Mantegna! |
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