Paintings

Front 1

Botticelli's Adoration of Magi

Back 1

-1476
-5 medici family members present
-botticelli has self portrait as well
Classical pagan elements

Front 2

Botticelli's Primavera

Back 2

1482
depicts mythological figures in a garden. Flora: goddess springtime, raped by zephyr (wind)
theme of fertility of world

Front 3

Andrea Mantegna's Camera Deglia Sposi

Back 3

looking at an opening in ceiling, has putti playing and people looking down from the opening.
commissioned by ludovico gonzage
art of deceiving the eye, creates 3-D look

Front 4

Donatello's St. George

Back 4

1415-1417 commissioned by armourer's guild
sculpture of the Saint holding a shield
schiacciato relief, base flattened, shallow carvings to create more striking effect

Front 5

Donatello's David

Back 5

1430
first free standing nude statue since ancient times
first major work of renaissance sculptor. Shows male youthful beauty. Was a symbol of Florence.

Front 6

Donatello's Annunciation

Back 6

1428-1433 for franciscan church of santa croce
sculpture of angel gabriel bowing to the virgin
She is not scared, greeting gesture with hand on chest, of the angel
shows beauty of ancients.

Front 7

Donatello's Cantoria

Back 7

1439 (Chior Stall)
picture of dancing boys/men behind 5 columns
slightly pagan, compared to god of wine. Luca Della Robbia's is much less pagan.

Front 8

Donatello's Mary Magdalene

Back 8

1454
wooden sculpture, prostitute but as a desert mother
solemn look, hands only beautiful part, with hair covering her body. During the rule of savonarola, personified that period of florence.

Front 9

Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel

Back 9

1425
life of st. peters and adam & eve
linear and atmospheric perspective
two parts with adam and eves expulsion. Emotions expressed through faces and gestures. As a whole represented human sin and the redemption through peter. realism and representation of all classes of florence both poor people as well as saints suffering. Combined figural & drapery style of Donatello (giotto) w/ perspective and motif from classical antiquity.

Front 10

Luciano Laurana and Ducal Palace at Urbino

Back 10

1468
Famous courtyard with arches and columns for Federico de montefeltro. He was from Dalmatia.

Front 11

Donatello's Zuccone

Back 11

1408-1436
ugly statue of a bald prophet
uses ugliness to express moral weight and dignity

Front 12

Raphael's School of Athens

Back 12

1510-1511
perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the high renaissance, on the walls of the stanzi. A huge hall of philosophers with aristotle and plato.

Front 13

Raphael's Galatea

Back 13

1512
she riding shell chariot, ideal beauty, platonic love gazing into the heavens. Putti flying shooting arrows.

Front 14

Michelangelo's David

Back 14

1501-1504
nude marble sculpture with incredible detail. In a tense mood, defense of the civil liberties, depicted before fought Goliath.

Front 15

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

Back 15

1508-1512
commissioned by Pope Julius 2nd
humanities need for salvation, 9 scenes from book of the genesis. Creation of adam, with god giving life to him.

Front 16

Titian's Venus of Urbino

Back 16

1538
young nude women, embodiment of venetian female nude paintings. Erotic, unconcerned nudity.
Commissioned by Guidobaldo della Rovere

Front 17

Giorgione's Tempest

Back 17

1506-1508
commissioned by venetian noble gabriele vendramin. Landscape painting with nude women nursing baby and man looking at her.