Arthistory Midterm1

Medium yolk is vehicle for carrying pigments dries quickly generally opaque, thick (can't layer color)

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

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

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

Brunelleschi
San Lorenzo in Florence
begun 1421 early Renaissance
-built for Medici so they would seem pious
- balanced and symmetrical
-pietra serena
-pilaster
-coffered

Traditional materials (in Florence)
"Serena stone"
showed off walls

Flat columns applied to the wall
matches columns (smooth Corinthian w/arches between columns)

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)

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

Lorenzo Ghiberti East Doors, Baptistry, Florence 1425-52 Jacob & Esau early Renaissance perspective, contrapposto, continuous narration

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

Antonio del Pollaiuolo Hercules & Antaeus 1475 early Renaissance

Pollaiuolo Battle of the Ten Nudes 1465-70 engaving (intaglio = cutting in) early Renaissance

Masaccio Brancacci Chapel Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence 1424-27 early Renaissance

Masaccio Trinity Virgin, St. John the Evangelist & Donors Santa Maria Novella Florence, 1425-8 early Renaissance -barrel vaulted space