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Name: Annunciation
Date: c. 1438 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 20)
Artist: Fra Angelico
Patron: Dominican monks of San Marco
Original Location: San Marco, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Painted for the Dominican monks of San Marco, Angelico's fresco is simple and direct. Its figures and architecture have a pristine clarity that befits the fresco's function as a devotional image.
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Name: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden
Date: c. 1424 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Massacio
Original Location: San Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Adam and Even, expelled from Eden, stumble on blindly, driven by the angel's will and their own despair. The hazy background specifies no locale, but suggests around and beyond the figures.
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Name: Holy Trinity
Date: c. 1424 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Massacio
Original Location: San Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Holy Trinity is the premier 15th century example of the application of mathetmatics to pictoral organization in the new science of perspective. The illusionism is breathtaking.
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Name: Tribute Money
Date: c. 1438 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 20)
Artist: Massacio
Original Location: San Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Massacio's figures recall Giotto's in their simple grandeur, but they convey a greater psychological and physical credibility. He modeled his figures with light coming from a source outside the picture.
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Name: Adoration of the Magi
Date: c. 1423 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Gentile de Fabriano
Original Location: Strozzi Chapel, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Tempera on Wood
Context: Gentile was the leading Florentine painter working in the International Style, but he successfully blended naturalistic details with the Late Gothic splendor in costume, color, and framing ornament.
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Name: Gattamelata (equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni)
Date: c. 1445 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Donatello
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Fresco
Context: Donatello based his giant statue of a Venetian general on equestrian statues of ancient Roman emperors. Together, man and horse convey an image of overwhelming strength.
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Name: Equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
Date: c. 1481 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 20)
Artist: Verrocchio
Original Location: Venice, Italy
Material/Technique: BRONZE
Context: Eager to compete with Donatello, Colleoni provided funds for his own equestrian statue in his will. The statue stands on a pedestal even taller than Gattamelata's.
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Name: Hercules and Antaeus
Date: c. 1438 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: antonio pollaiuolo
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Bronze sculpture
Context: The Renaissance interest in Classical culture led to the revival of Greco-Roman mythological themes in art. This sculpture depicts the stress and strain of the human figure in violent action.
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Name: David
Date: c. 14365 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 20)
Artist: Verrocchio
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Bronze
Context: Verrocchio's piece, made for Medici, displays a brash confidence. The statue's narrative realism contrasts with the quiet classicism of Donatello's David.
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Name: David
Date: c. 1440 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Donatello
Patron: Medici
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Bronze
Context: This piece possesses both the relaxed contrapposto and the sensuous beauty of nude Greek gods. The revival of classical statuary style appealed to the work's patron, Medici.
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Name: Isaac and Sons
Date: c. 1425 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Ghiberti
Original Location: San Marco, Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Bronze
Context: In this relief, Ghiberti employed linear perspective to achieve the illusion of distance, but he also used sculptural aerial perspective, making forms less distanct with distance.
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Name: Saint Mark
Date: c. 1411 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Donatello
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Marble sculpture
Context: In this statue carved for the guild of linen drapers, Donatello introduced the classical principle of contrapposto into Early Renaissance sculpture. The drapery falls naturally and moves with the body.
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Name: Four Crowned Saints
Date: c. 1410 CE
Period/Style: Early Renaissance (Ch. 21)
Artist: Nani di Banco
Original Location: Florence, Italy
Material/Technique: Marble sculpture
Context: Nanni's group representing the four martyred patron saints of Florence's sculptors' guild is an early example of Renaissance artists' attempt to liberate statuary from its architectural setting.
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