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Nicola Pisano - Annunciation

Giovanni Pisano - Annunciation

Giotto - Arena Chapel

Giotto - Betrayal Of Jesus

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Giotto - Lamentation

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Giotto - Last Judgement

Duccio - Maesta Altarpiece

Duccio - (1310) Betrayal Of Christ

Back of the Maesta Alterpiece. Peter cutting off the ear of the High Priest's servant. Judas is giving Jesus the false kiss. Jesus's deciples are fleeing to the right. The men in the background all have individual expressions. The models are given mass and shape which is to contradictory to the Italo-Byzantine style

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Martini - Annunciation

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Lorenzetti - Peaceful City

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Florence Cathedral

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Andrea Pisano - South Doors

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Limbourg Brothers - Duke Of Berry

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Claus Sluter - Well Of Moses

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Robert Campin - (1425) Merode Alterpiece

Small alterpiece was owned by the Merode family which are the patrons on the side. The center depicts the annunciation inside of a Flemish home. Painting the scene inside the home brought the patrons closer to God making it personal to them. Baby jesus is flying to Mary's womb. White lilies symobolize Mary's virginity. Right piece is Joseph working in his shop. He is building rat traps to catch Satan.

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Van Eyck - Ghent Alterpiece

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Van Der Weyden - Deposition

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Da Vinci - Last Supper

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Da Vinci - Mona Lisa

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Raphael - Madona and Child

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Raphael - School of Athens

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Michelangelo - Ceiling

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Michelangelo - David

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Michelangelo - Last Judgement

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Bellini - Feast of the Gods

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Titian - Assumption of the Virgin

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Titian - (1522) Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne

Based off of a Latin poem by Catullus. Titian puts his models in impossible dramatic postions. Bacchus arrives to the island of Naxos, riding in on a leopard-drawn chariot to save Ariadne who was abandoned by Theseus.

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Lady Fontana - Portrait of a Nobelwoman

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Correggio - Assumption of the Virgin

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Tintoretto - Last Supper

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Francesca - Flagellation of Christ

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Ghiberti - (1401) Sacrifice of Isaac

Ghiberti was commisioned to compete against Brunelleschi in creating an image of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in aquatrefoil frame. Ghiberti wins because they throught Bruneleschi's interpretation was too violent. Ghiberti uses tradition Greco Roman models and poses. From the top right an angel flyes down from heaven to stop Abraham right before the sacrifice takes place.

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Brunelleschi - (1401) Sacrifice of Isaac

Ghiberti was commisioned to compete against Brunelleschi in creating an image of Abraham sacrificing Isaac in aquatrefoil frame. Ghiberti wins because they throught Bruneleschi's interpretation was too violent. Brunelleschi has Abraham lunging forward violently with his robes flying back. The angel matches his energy by violently grabbing his arm right before he murders his son.

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Donatello - David

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Massaccio - (1424) Tribute Money

Massaccio divides this painting in to three scenes. In the center, surrounded by his deciples, Jesus is confronted by a tax collector at the entrance to a Roman city. Jesus tells Peter to go to the river and retieve a coin from the mouth of a fish. At the right Peter is paying the tax collector. Massaccio uses new techniques giving the landscape depth in the background. The paining was actually damaged in a fire.

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Masaccio - Expultion of Adam and Eve

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Verrocchio - David

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Boticelli - (1482) Primavera

From left to right we have Mercury pushing away the coulds. The Three Graces dancing. In the center cupid is hovering over Venus. All the way to the right Zephyrus rapes Chloris and she transforms into Flora godess of spring. The oranges over all of the models except Zephyrus represents the wealth of the house of Medici.

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Botticelli - (1484) Birth of Venus

Zephyrus flies in from the left carrying Chloris and is blowing on Venus. Venus is being born on sea foam and carried on a cockle shell to her sacred island where a nymph Pomona is meeting to cover her.

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Mantegna - Forshortened Christ

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Francesca - Resurection

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Michelangelo - Bound Slaves