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Name: Annunciation and Nativity Artist: Nicola Pisano Date: 1260 Medium: Marble Location: Baptistry, Pisa, Italy Extra: - Combined the scene of the nativity with the annunciation and the shepherds in the fields. -Crowded the figures together - Influenced by the Roman sarcophagi - Expressive Qualities of Gothic Sculpture |
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Name: Annunciation and Nativity Artist: Giovanni Pisano Date: 1297-1301 Medium: Marble Location: Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Italy Extra: - Influenced by French Gothic Art - Bold and naturalistic (naked hercules) - Moving away from his father's style - Crowded (but less crowded than his father) and dramatic scenes - Slender figures, sense of space |
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Name: Madonna Enthroned Artist: Cimabue Date: 1280-1290 Medium: Tempera and gold leaf on wood panel Location: Uffizi Extra: - Less perspective, people look like they are stacked up on top of each other but attempted to create a perspective. - Highly stylized like Byzantine art - all the characters look very similar. - Softer expression of characters - possibly influenced by Giotto |
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Name: Madonna Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna) Artist: Giotto Date: 1310 Medium: Tempera and gold leaf on panel Location: Uffizi Extra: - Evolution in perspective from Cimabue - Depth and space - Painting on the obsession of the natural world. - More facial expression - Light and shadow are used to create great effect on her face and her boobs - 3D woman! and making her look bigger to show her importance. |
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Name: Maesta Artist: Duccio Date: 1308-1311 Medium: tempera gold on wood panel Location: Museo Dell'Opera Metropolitana del Duomo, Siena Extra: - Set Italian painting on the course towards more realism. - Gothic - Clear who Mary is by the size and color she is wearing (blue) - Symmetry with the characters on each side |
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Name: Annunciation Artist: Simone Martini Date: 1333 Medium: tempera on panel Location: Uffizi Extra: - Sienese gothic painting characterized by the wonderful elegance of both line and color. - Opposite of Florentine style with gentleness of lines and colors - More realistic with the marble floor and perspective. - 2 names of the painters at the bottom of the painting - very weird for this epoch. |
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Name: Peaceful City from the Allegory of Good and Bad Gov't Artist: Ambrogio Loranzetti Date: 1338-1339 Medium: Fresco Location: Salla della Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy Extra: -Tribute to the quality of life made possible by prevailing peace and a just and nurturing gov't. - One of the first examples of pure landscape painting since Roman times - Less religious focus, real life and what could happen - Contrast and war and tyranny and good gov't with the virtues present |
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Name: Wall with St. Thomas Aquinas (from the Spanish Chapel) Artist: Andrea di Buonaiuto Date: 1355 Medium: Fresco Location: Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy Extra: - Created right after the black death so pessimistic - Dominican style: judgement and intellectual - meant to make you feel like you're being judged - Enthroned by characters of the Old and New Testament and virtues and patrons of science and art. |
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Name: Sacrifice of Isaac Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi Date: 1401-1402 Medium: Gilded bronze relief Location: Bargello, Florence Extra: - Nervous energy and scattering of figures recalls Giovanni Pisano's relief in pulpit - Influenced by the expressionism of the Late Gothic Style - Dramatic and disturbing |
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Name: Sacrifice of Isaac Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti Date: 1401 Medium: Gilded bronze relief Location: Bargello Extra: - Inspired by the sculpture from Greece and Rome may be the first example of a fully nude, classically modeled figure since antiquity |
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Name: Saint George Artist: Donatello Date: 1410-1415 Medium: Marble Location: Or San Michele, Bargello Extra: - Saint George was a Roman soldier and early Christian martyr who was renowned for - Commissioned original by the guild of armors and sword makers because St. George was the patron saint of the guild. - Example of Donatello's emotional realism - Controposto - appearing ready to fight but with fear in his eyes |
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Name: Ospedale Degli Innocenti Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi Date: 1419 Medium: Pietra Serena Location: Florence Extra: - Where abandoned children and orphans could be dropped off through the little door in the wall of the orphanage - images of swaddles children in glazed terra-cotta medallions above the columns |
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Name: Adoration of the Magi Artist: Gentile da Fabriano Date: 1423 Medium: Tempera on wood Location: Uffizi Extra: - Each wall shows one of the kinds coming to adore the child. - Throwback style with stacked people and lots of gilding and decoration - Artist rely on expensive materials to impress people - Playing with foreshadowing with Christ child reaching out. - One of the earliest night scenes painting using different kinds of light. |
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Name: Gates of Paradise and panel Depicting Jacob and Esau Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti Date: 1425-1452 Medium: Bronze Location: Baptistry del Duomo Extra: - More naturalistic with perspective and greater idealization of the subject - Michelangelo dubbed these scenes the Gates of Paradise - Different stories within each panel - Jacob and Esau - Rebecca (married to Isaac) gives birth to the two and Esau sells his birthright and Isaac sends Esau hunting. Rebecca tells Jacob how to deceive Isaac and Isaac blesses Jacob, and Esau must not serve Jacob |
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Name: The Holy trinity Artist: Masaccio Date: 1424-1427 Medium: Fresco Location: Santa Maria Novella, Florence Extra: - Uses laws of perspective to construct the spatial illusion of a barrel-vaulted chapel in which God supports the arms of a cross. - Figures seems to be realistically real sized and occupy space. - Use of one point perspective and looks to be located in Antique Roman building - Renaissance |
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Name: The Tribute Money Artist: Masaccio Date: 1424-1427 Medium: Fresco Location: Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Extra: - Masaccio suggests passage of time with simultaneously 3 moments in the story of Jesus and the Roman tax collector found in Matthew. - 1st scene is in the middle with vanishing point at Christ's head - Movement from highly stylized to realistic and naturalistic |
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Name: Battle of San Romano Artist: Paolo Uccello Date: 1455 Medium: tempera on wood Location: Uffizi Extra: - Consist of 3 paintings and uses a single vanishing point in one of the paintings - Using battle scene to create a perspective box - makes you feel like you're being sucked into the painting - Making reference to perspective grid - making fun of it - showing a battle between the Florentines and Sienese |
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Name: David Artist: Donatello Date: 1440 - 1460 Medium: Bronze Location: Bargello, Florence Extra: - Donatello's most classically inspired work commission for the garden of the Medici palace - First life-size, freestanding statue of a nude figure since antiquity - Contraposto stance and body proportions are reminiscent of Greek and Roman statues - Reconciliation of idealism and realism with weak adolescent looking boy who has just slated Goliath - Seems like a mockery to Goliath and the story |
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Name: Mary Magdalene Artist: Donatello Date: 1445 Medium: Poly-chromed and gilded wood Location: Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence Extra: - Her hair represents her being a prostitute - She is clearly sugaring and easy to tell that she has been wandering in the dessert from her realistic and expressive treatment. - Different than other human depictions that are idealized or show their best state - shows how she actually would have looked |
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Name: Adoration of the Magi Artist: Benozzo Gozzoli Date: 1460 Medium: Fresco Location: Palazzo Medici Chapel Extra: - Horsemen represent the Magi - Included contemporary portraits - Typical during a Renaissance for landscape to be typical of the place it was for so the landscape is of Florence so that it's closer to home - Unrealistic perspective - people are stacked on top of one another |
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Name: Adoration of the Magi Artist: Sandro Botticelli Date: 1475 Medium: Fresco Location: Uffizi Extra: - Beginning of perspective there's linear and atmospheric perspective he is playing with newer high renaissance inventions - Geometric composition left and right triangle figures that overlap so playing with ideas of balance |
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Name: Primavera Artist: Sandro Botticelli Date: 1480 Medium: Tempera on canvas Location: Uffizi Extra: - Probably commissioned for a wedding but not really sure but we think it's a domestic setting - It's an allegory that art historians are still trying to work out it was a conversational piece - Neoplatonist ideas played into this because they liked to talk about mythology classical references and christian ideas like spring, the rebirth and resurrection of christ. - Graceful with a lot of line, he wasn't interested in natural space but the real beauty of the figures |
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Name: The Birth of Venus Artist: Sandro Botticelli Date: 1480 Medium: Tempera on canvas Location: Uffizi Extra: - Reconciliation between calcium and the renaissance - Venus was born immaculately - She looks graceful and not as natural - Importance of line when a lot of renaissance painters were trying to get away from line |
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Name: Madonna of the Rocks Artist: Leonardo Da vinci Date: 1483 Medium: Oil on panel, transferred to canvas Location: Louvre Extra: - Pyramidal structure with the trip of the pyramid at the top of the Madonna's head - Hazy light used to create sense of harmony and balance - connection between mary and christ because she is looking at him even though he isn't on her lap |
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Name: Madonna of the Stairs Artist: Michealangelo Buonarotti Date: 1489- 1492 Medium: Marble, low-relief Location: Casa Buonarroti, Florence Extra: - One of his first sculptures he made at 17 and never used this type again - Virgin Mary is seated on a big piece of marble and the child is nursing, either dead or asleep - this is reference to the fact that he is going to die wrapped in cloth |
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Name: The Last Supper Artist: Leo Da Vinci Date: 1495-1498 Medium: Fresco Location: Refrectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan Extra: - Individuals displaying real emotions, unlike many last supper paintings - displays reaction by each apostle when Jesus said that one of them would betray him - Most heads are turned towards Jesus, focusing the viewer's attention to the center of the composition - References to the trinity: apostles are seated in groupings of 3, 3 windows behind Jesus and the shape of Jesus's figure resembles a triangle - All diners are on one side of the table so that no one has their back to the viewer - Jesus' head is located at the vanishing point of all lines and the lighting also draws attention to jesus |
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Name: Mona lisa Artist: Da Vinci Date: 1503-1505 Medium: Oil on wood panel Location: Louvre Extra: - Has been called the most famous portrait in the world, even the most famous painting - the scenic background is fantasy - not realistic or naturalistic - Gradations of color of her face with light and shadow - Her eyes engage the viewer it seems like she is looking right at you and unusual expression on her face of a smirk or smile - Smufato (smoky) lighting unites foreground and background |
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Name: Doni Tondo Artist: Michaelangelo Buonarroti Date: 1504 - 1506 Medium: Fresco panting Location: Uffizi Extra: - Celebrating a mans marriage - called a tondo because of the round shape of the painting, the shape is associated with child birth and marriage so we know it was for a domestic setting. - Example of painting that looks like a sculpture - Foreshortening in the Madonna and she is the first barefoot Madonna- she's muscular - Colors are vibrant |
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Name: David Artist: Michelangelo Date: 1501-1504 Medium: Marble Location: Academia, Florence Extra: - Hands and head are disproportionate because it was meant to be looked at form the ground. - idealized perfect body - he is on the verge of action - waiting for what he is going to do because there is no head at the base that would have been the head of Goliath - This time period artists were interested in science and reality wanted things to be perfect |
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Name: Pietá Artist: Michealangelo Buonarroti Date: 1498 Medium: Marble Location: St. Peter's Basilica, Rome Extra: - Wanted Mary to look graceful and beautiful so made her look young - Emotions aren't really present but Jesus is not represented as suffering - just a mother holding her son - Classical beauty and naturalistic- She is huge, if she were to stand up she would be massive |
