Art History Exam 1 -Early Italian

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Basilica of San Francesco

Assisi

13th

(Built on St. Francis' Burial Site)

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St. Francis Preaching to the Birds

Basilica of San Francesco

13th

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Pulpit Nicola Pisano

Baptistrey, Pisa

13th

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Fortitude, Nicola Pisano

Detail of Pulpit, Pisa

13th

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Nativity, Nicola Pisano

Detail of Pulpit, Pisa

13th

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Nativity, Giovanni Pisano,

Pisa Cathedral

13th

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Nave of The Florence Cathedral

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St. Clare Altarpiece

Assisi

13th

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Madonna Enthroned, Cimabue

Florence Northern Italy

13th

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Madonna Enthroned, Giotto

Florence, Northern Italy

14th

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The Lamentation, Giotto

Arena Chapel, Northern Italy

14th

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Good Government in the City, Lorenzetti

Siena, Northen Italy

14th

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Good Government in the Country, Lorenzetti

Siena Northern Italy

14th

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The Sacrifice of Issac, Brunelleschi

Florence

Early Italian Renaissance

(Was a contest, that Ghiberti won, Brunelleschi went on to do the dome of the Florence Cathedral)

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The Sacrifice of Issac, Ghiberti

Florence

Early Italian Renaissance

( was a contest that he won)

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Dome of Florence, Brunelleschi

Florence Cathedral

Early Italian Renaissance

(Because of his failure in the contest for the piece in the door for the baptistrey, he again tried this contest which he won)

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The Gates to Paradise, Ghiberti

Baptistery of San Giovanni Florence

Early Italian Renaissance

(Because of his success in the contest for the door, he was commissioned for this piece, each panel is made so it makes sense when you look up.)

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Story of Jacob and Esau, Ghiberti

Panel on Gates of Paradise

Baptistery of San Giovanni

Early Italian Renaisannce

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The Feast of Herod, Donatello

Siena Cathedral

Early Italian Renaisannce

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The Tribute Money Masaccio

Brancacci Chapel, Florence

Early Italian Renaisannce

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Annunciation Fra Angelico

Museo di San Marco

Early Italian Renaissance

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David Donatello

Florence

Early Renaissance

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Delivery of the Keys Perugino

Sistine Chapel

Early Renaissance

(you can see the use of scientific and linear perspective with the tile (grid) that Perugino laid out to get the sense that you can step into the painting)

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The Holy Trinity Masaccio

Florence

Early Renaissance

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The Birth of Venus Boticelli

Florence

Early Renaissance

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Vetruvian Man Leonardo

Paris

High Renaissance in Italy

(Leonardo was very interested in science and anatomy)

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Mona Lisa Leonardo

High Renaissance in Italy

(Mona Lisa broke the tradition of young women in profile, adorned with expensive jewelry and straight faced, as she didn't have any of these)

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David Michelangelo

Florence

High Renaissance in Italy

(Borrows the pose from ancient models, with more realistic proportions less idealistic, his detail of the veins and you can see the tension rippling through his body)

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Awakening the Prisoner Michelangelo

Florence

High Renaissance in Italy

(Unfinished because Michelangelo would try to "free" the figure from the stone, if he wasn't feeling it he would stop working)

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The Last Supper Leonardo

Milan

High Renaissance in Italy

(Leonardo's skill at creating illusions and his knack for experimenting is apparent, his use of oil based tempera did not adhere well causing the painting to be greatly diminished)

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling by Michelangelo

Vatican Rome

High Renaissance in Italy

(Michelangelo adds fake architectural details used to divided the space and stories, many of his people have muscular shapes due to him being a sculptor)

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The School of Athen's Raphael

Vatican Palace

High Renaissance in Italy

(Use of architectual details and one point perspective makes it feel like you can step into the painting)

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The Temptest Giorgione

Venice

High Renaissance in Italy

(The woman can have many interpertations and the stormy landscape brings a dreamy aura about it)

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Fete Champetre (Pastoral Concert)Giorgione&Titian

High Renaissance

(Titian finished this work after Giorgione died)

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The Last Judgement Michelangelo

Late Renaissance and Mannerism

Sistine Chapel

(Michelangelo was nearing the end of his life and was contemplating his own afterlife as he became depressed and spiritual, he also improved vastly with his use of fresco and lack of architecual detailing)

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Madonna with the long neck Parmigianino

Late Renaissance and Mannerism

(Elongated Porportions baby looks like jesus on cross)

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Venus of Urbino Titian

Late Renaissance and Mannerism

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Pieta Pontormo

Late Renaissance and Mannerism

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July Page, Limbourg Brothers

Northern Renaissance

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Merode Triptych Campin

Northern Renaissance

(two donors for the painting seen kneeling outside door)

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Ghent Altarpiece (closed) van Eyck

Northern Renaissance

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Ghent Altarpiece (Open)van Eyck

Northern Renaissance

(Donors included in paintings)

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Ghent Altarpiece Detail of Adam & Eve

van Eyck

Northern Renaissance

(compareable to the gothic styles with more life breathed into them, magnificent almost life size portraits)

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Arnolfini Portrait Van Eyck

Northern Renaissance

(One of the men in the mirror believed to be van eyck himself, very symbolic with the dogs candles and dress lifted)

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The Well of Moses Sluter

Northern Renaissance

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Descent from the cross van der Weyden

Northern Renaissance

(emotional potency of life size figures, the madonna and jesus similiarly positioned more gesture than facial emotion)

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Garden of Earthly Delights Bosch

Northern Renaissance

(Verve from tradtion, reflection of his worst idea of sins, primordial soup from which life emerages, eves animalistic grave, figures reaching towards shallow desires)

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Temptation of St. Anthony Schongauer

Northern Renaissance

(new form of art, more afforable, acccesable to everyone)

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St. Luke Drawing of the Virgin van Der Weyden

Northern Renaissance(creates a deep landscape that moves into background)

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Isenhiem altarpiece (closed) Grunewald

Renaissance & Reformation in North

(St. Antonys virus, would have to look up us if from the grave, seeing christ suffer may have help them get through their sickness, skin discoloration, scabbiness, marys pale white skin, eerie lighting, the hinge at his lower legs"

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Isenhiem Altarpiece (open) Grunewald

Renaissance & Reformation in North

(Happier, more lively, open for special occasions)

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Ishenhiem altarpiece (detail open) Grunewald

Renaissance & Reformation in North

(Godly, fading into light)

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The four horsemen of the apocolypse Durer

Northern Renaissance

(death stands out, woodcut, fine lines hard to make)

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Adam and Eve Durer

Renaissance & Reformation in North

(much easier to have shadows and gradiances with metal sheet, surrounded by animals may be the four humors, eve grabbing onto the apple)

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Return of the Hunters Breugel

Renaissance & Reformation in North

( Shying away from religious pieces of art, goes from mundane to sublime)

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The Burial of Count Orgaz El Greco

Renaissance & Reformation in North

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The Four Apostles Durer

Renaissance & Reformation in North