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Cards In This Set
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Tempera
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Medium
yolk is vehicle for carrying pigments
dries quickly
generally opaque, thick (can't layer color)
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Giotto
Virgin and Child Enthroned
c. 1310
early Renaissance
-altar piece
- convincing, life-like
-variety in facial expression, shows emotion
- more volume than Cimabue
- succession of angels to give depth perspective
-throne open on sides, Mary & Jesus are more accessible
-drapery flowy, fabric suject to gravity
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Giotto
Arena Chapel
Padua, consecrated 1305
fresco
early Renaissance
-blue was one of most expensive pigments - subject: scenes from life of Virgin & life of Christ |
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Duomo, Florence
dome by Brunelleschi, 1417-36
early Renaissance
-nave: long part of cross, good for processions
-transcept- arms of cross, where altar is (east)
-altar= east, entrance in west ( facing altar = facing Jerusalem)
-dome is Gothic
- Renaissance: used science to make dome so large
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Brunelleschi
San Lorenzo in Florence begun 1421 early Renaissance -built for Medici so they would seem pious - balanced and symmetrical -pietra serena -pilaster -coffered |
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Pietra serena
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Traditional materials (in Florence)
"Serena stone" showed off walls |
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Pilaster
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Flat columns applied to the wall
matches columns (smooth Corinthian w/arches between columns) |
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Michelozzo
Palazzo Medici Riccardi: Facade Florence begun 1446 rusticated stone, rustication early Renaissance -arches, columns, cornices precisely space = classical -each floor different sized (lighter as you go up) -exterior: heavy cut stone -Colosseum principle (successive layers that are smaller) |
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Leon Battista Alberti.
Palazzo Rucellai: Facade
Florence
1455-70
early Renaissance
-pilaster
-one up-ed Michelezzo
- more correct, obvious colleseum principle
- doric on bottom
-" Piano Nobile" best floor
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
East Doors, Baptistry, Florence
1425-52
Jacob & Esau
early Renaissance
perspective, contrapposto, continuous narration
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Donatello
David
1425-60
early Renaissance
-probably first free standing male nude since antiquity
-bronze
- Florence identified with David (boy under attack by gigants)
-in contrapposto
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Hercules & Antaeus
1475
early Renaissance
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Pollaiuolo
Battle of the Ten Nudes
1465-70
engaving (intaglio = cutting in)
early Renaissance
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Masaccio
Brancacci Chapel
Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
1424-27
early Renaissance
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Masaccio
Trinity Virgin, St. John the Evangelist & Donors
Santa Maria Novella
Florence, 1425-8
early Renaissance
-barrel vaulted space
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