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-St. Mark. 1413
-Bruncelleschi’s friend, also an unkempt bachelor
-Worked for the Medici family
-Very prolific
-Temper!
-Made illusions with perspective -
by Donatello
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Donatello,
-First nude
-Pre-teen Dionysis
-Sexual, androgynous
-Feather in the back
-Contraposto (asymmetrical arrangement of the
human figure)
-Placed in the Medici courtyard
“Behold, a boy overcomes the great tyrant. A conquer, o citizens.” -
Fresco
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"Last Supper"
fresco, Florence, -
Filippo Lippi,
-Tondo
-Usually a gift to high society woman after birth
-Pomegranate to symbolize blood -
Donatello
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Tempra on wood
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"David"
Bronze. Florence. -
"the Baptism of Christ"
Tempera and oil on wood -
"The Annunciation"
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Camera Deghi Spoci, Fresco,
-Trompe l’Oeil
-Di Sotto in Su (from above, up)
-Foreshortening
-Peacock of marriage -
Gionerva de Benci
oil on wood -
" Last Supper"
Fresco -
"Birth of Venus"
-Tempera on wood -Ovid, “Metamorpheses”
-“Go-to” for mythology
-Aurora - Goddess of Early Morning
-Zepher - God of Wind
-3 Graces of Aphrodite
-Kythera
Commission for Medici -
"Study of the Angel’s head in The Virgin on the Rocks"
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"Madonna of the Rocks", Louvre, Paris,
-San Francesco Grande, Milan
-Sfumata (smokey)
-Pyramidal composition
-Arm around St. John
-Botany, geology, anatomy, chiaroscuro
-Beginning of High Renaissance
-Credited with first painting of nature -
"La Primavera"
Tempera on wood -
"Vitruvian Man"
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"Grotesque heads"
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, "Lady with Ermine", oil on wood
16 or 17 years old
Ludovico’s mistress -
-Golden age for the Medici
-Mutilation of enemies
-Destroyed a town
-Poet, patron, diplomat
-Neo-platonic Academy
-Takes in Michelangelo
-Humanist Scholar
-M. Ficino, P. della Mirandella, A. Poliziano
Patronage was public relations -
Dominican monk
“Fiery Sermons”
-Anti-Humanist
-“Florence will be the new Jerusalem.”
-“Bonfire of Vanities”
Collections of “sins” -
The Last Supper, Louvre, Fresco
-Bronze equestrian statue never finished
-Oil + Tempera
-Flaking within the first 10 years
1726 Restoration
-Mold on walls, covered with curtains
-Napoleon’s army
-Allied bombings during WW2
-No halo to humanize
-1 point perspective (Everything goes to Him) -
"Study of Nutcracker man + youth"
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"Dead Christ"
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, Mona Lisa (La Giaconda), Louvre, . Oil on wood.
-Much darker now and painting was once wider
50 good copies exist
-Stolen in 1911 by Vincenzo “Macaroni” Petrugia
-Patriotic duty
-Made tour of USA in 1962
-Lisa di Maria Ghecodini, 24
-Wife at Francesco de Giacondo
-Vasari writes about her eyebrows
-Sfumato
-Engages the view psychologically
“The Cult of the Mona Lisa -
-San Piero da Vinci
-Notary
Caterina
“Basardo”
-Andrea de Verrochio
-Disliked sculpture
“La Pittura est la poetria visuale”
-Not prolific (20 paintings)
-Vegetarian, played the lute, hated seeing birds in cages, GAY
-“Renaissance Man”
Engineering, optics, hydralics, anatomy, zoology, architecture, botony, flight, psychologist, cartoonist, helicopter, tank, sculpture
