FAH335 Midterm

Perugino, Marriage of the VIrgin
-made for Cathedral of Perugia
-conflates past and future, Marriage around 0 BC looks like a Renaissance wedding!
-relics of the Virgin's wedding ring are housed here... relic is historic but used in common practice
-Virgin as ideal bride

Neri di Bicci, Nativity
-Joseph as side bitch

Raphael, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
-Joseph as provider and teacher
-tondo (religious for home)
-ideal father

Maiolica inkstand for signing betrothal contract (giurnamento), Tuscan, inscribed: and the words became flash (John 1;14 and Angelus prayer-nati
vity scene of ideal family and dogs (fidelity)
-marriage is a bond that makes peace
-strategic marrying off

Cassetta
-the di muschio is scented
-storage, used to give gifts

Italian tapestry belt w/ embroidered love poem
-mass made, but with white blank scrolls to personalize
-phoenix... burning love, life through love

Italian hankerchief
-Venetians specialized in textiles
-unisex status symbol

Raphael, Portrait of Maddalena Doni
-rings given at different stages, courtship, ring exchange, etc
-heirlooms

French gold pendant/broochwith earls, diamonds, and emerald paste jewel "amor in letters"

Filippo Lippi, Portrait of a Man and Woman, likely Ranier Scolari and Angiola di Bernardo Sapiti
-unique in being a double portrait
-lealta (faithfulness) embroidered on sleeve cuff
-she is dressed really rich
-courted hcore, so many gifts!
-sella=headpeice w/pear and garnet brooch
-pearl and cameo brooch
-velvet and ermine gown

Lorenzo Costa, Portrait of a Man and Woman (Mateo di Sebastian di Bernardino Gozzadini and Ginerva d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini ?)
-velvet bridal sleve with pomgranate embroidery (popular motif that is symbol of fertility)
-unusual because both are outside, usually woman is inside
-he gives her a pink (LOVE), she gives him a quince FERTILITY)
-sorroundings are allegories for duties (behind him are horses, falcon of faithfulness, pelican feed in his fam and providing from his own flesh [also christian emblem of charity and sacrifice], pheonix of regeneration and dead family tree to signify the rising again of a family line)
(behind her: maiden with unicorn (virginity/chastity), ermine of purity and nobility, rabbits of sex)
inscription says that our virtues may survive

Francesco del Cosso, Man with a Ring

Fede ring
2 hands holding a heart
-another style of hands holding each other
-fidelity ring

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of Marsilio and Faustina Cassotti
-latin: coniugium=wedlock
-italian: congiogo=with a yoke
...therefore we have a play on words
-clothes show status (scarlett silk is double pricey)
-looks like ancient Roman funerary bust

Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Couple (Antonio Agliardi and Apollonia Cassotti?)
dog=fidelity, she holds him
-he holds "man never", points to a slutty provider squirrel... squirrel hibernates through winter, he will provide and not be a ho