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12 Cards in this Set
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Adoration of the Magi
da Vinci rare look at artists working plan permitted pen: painters to fulfill idea of creating illusion of nature on flat surface |
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Dead Christ
Andrea Mantegna c. 1500 tempera on canvas -super-imported orthogonals -vanishing point above the picture plane |
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Expulsion fro Eden
Masaccio [Tommaso de Ser Govanni do Mone] -2 most powerful painted nudes since antiquity -Eve's pose: Venus -Adam: hunched and covering face -leave gateway of paradise behind them -uses both linear and aerial perspective in Brancacci Chapel frescoes |
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Flagellation
Piero della Francesca c. 1460 tempera on panel Docal Palace, Urbino |
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Holy Trinity
Massachio c. 1425 -fresco -Santa Maria Novella, Florence -shows perspective -skeleton lies on sarcophagus -inscription laid above -"I was once what you are. And I am to what you will be." -momento mori ("reminder of death") -Father, Son, Holy Spirit -occupy higher space -God on foreshortened ledge -faces observer -out stretched hands -dove representing the Holy Spirit -commissioned by the Lenzi family -base of the figural pyramid -to be buried in front of painting |
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Hospital of INnocents
Brunelleschi Florence c. 1419 to shelter orphans and foundlings financed by Giovanni di Becci de Medici divided into bays derived from Greek and Roman temple architecture -based on unified system of cubes and squares |
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The Portinari Altarpiece
Hugo van der Goes -c. 1470s -oil on wood -central panel represents Mary, Joseph, shepards, and angels adoring the newborn Jesus -deep, rich colors |
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Rucellai Palace
Leon Battista Alberti c. 1446-1450 -belonged to Giovanni Ruccellai (wealthy merchant) -facade symmetrical and composed -illustrates Alberti's interest in harmonious surface design -Iconic on 2nd -Corinthian on 3rd |
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Sant' Andrea in Mantua
Leon Battista Alberti c. 1470-1493 - commissioned by Lodovico Gonzaga -Marquis of Mantua -achieves the solution left unfinished by the Tempio -completed 21 years after his death -Classical temple portico -Roman triumphal arch -barrel-vaulted space -reminiscent of ancient Roman basillicas and baths -main concern= symmetry |
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Tempio Malatesta
Leon Battista Alberti -Alberti's most intriguing commission -his 1st church -Sigismondo Malatesta -humanist ruler of Rimini -hired Alberti to advise on reconstruction of the Church of San Francesco -wanted church converted to a pagan temple -condemned to hell by Pope Pius II -1462 -perversion, rape, murder, and heresy -financial setback -Tempio's completion prevented |
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Tommaso Portinari and Maria Baroncelli
Hans Memling c. 1470 oil on wood -commissioned on occasion of their wedding -3/4 view against dark background -emphasises surface texture |
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Vitruvias Man
da Vinci The Ideal of the Circle and Centrally Planned Churches important architechtual idea that preoccuied many artist and write |
