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Expulsion from Eden

Masaccio

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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Original Sin

Masolino

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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Tribute Money

Masaccio

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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Raising of Tabitha

Masolino

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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Baptism of the Neophytes

Masaccio

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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St. Peter Preaching

Masolino

1423-1426

Patron: Felice Brancacci

Subject: Life of Peter

Location: Santa Maria del Carmine

Function: Family Chapel/Funerary

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The Holy Trinity

Masaccio

1427

Patron: unknown

Location: S.M. Novella

first ever renaissance style painting

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Competition Panels

Ghiberti | Brunelleschi

1401

Patron: Opera del Baptistry

Subj: Sacrifice of Isaac

Style: International/Late Gothic

Prize: Comission for the East doors of the Baptistry

Ghiberti won - better technically and stylistically

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David

Donatello

1408/1415

Patron: Opera del’ Duomo & Signoria

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St. George

Donatello

1415

Patron: Sword and Armor Guild

Orig. Location: Orsanmichele

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David

Donatello

1430 - 1450

Patron: unknown (Medici)

Orig. Location: Palazzo Medici Courtyard

first freestanding male nude since antiquity

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Bacchus

Michelangelo

1496

Patron: Cardinal Raffaele Riario

meant for his ancient sculpture garden - rejected because to naturalistic

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David

Andrea del Verrocchio

1465-1469

Patron: Piero di Medici

originally on a big platform with the head behind him

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Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti

1425-1452

Patron: Opera del Baptistry

Subj: Old Testiment

Location: East Doors of the Baptistry

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Pieta

Michelangelo

1550

Patron: Michelangelo

meant for his tomb

tried to destroy it himself

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the Uffizi

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Georgio Vazari

1560

Patron: Duke Cosimo I de Medici

Function: offices

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Ognissanta Madonna

a.k.a Madonna & Child & Saints & Angles

Giotto

1310

style: Gothic
orig. Location: High Altar of Ognissanti

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Annunciation

Simone Martini

1333

style: Gothic

Patron: Opera del Duomo de Siena

orig. Location: Altarpiece in Siena Cathedral

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Adoration of the Magi

Gentile da Fabriano

1423

Patron: Palla Strozzi

style: International

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Battle of San Romano

Paolo Uccello

1440

Patron: unknown

Style: Early Renaissance

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Madonna, Child & Angel

Fra Lippo Lippi

1450

Patron: unknown

Style: Early Renaissance

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Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino

Piero della Francesca

1474

Patron: Duke of Urbino

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La Primavera

a.k.a The Allegory of Spring

Allessandro Botticelli

1470’s

Patron: Medici

first mythological painting since antiquity

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Birth of Venus

Botticelli

1480’s

Patron: Medici

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Annunciation Leonard da Vinci 1474 Patron: unknown Style: Early Renaissance Sfumato & Atmospheric perspective
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The Holy Family a.k.a Doni Tondo Michelangelo 1505 Patron: Angelo Doni Style: High Renaissance
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Convent of San Marco (Cloister) Michelozzo 1436-1442 Patron: Cosimo the Elder first ever renaissance style convent observant branch of Dominican friars
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Annunciation Fra Angelico 1436-42 Patron: Cosimo the Elder Location: Top of the stairs leading to the dormitory
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Annunciation Fra Angelico 1436-42 Patron: Cosimo the Elder Location: Cell 3 Intercessor: St. Peter
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Transfiguration Fra Angelico 1436-42 Patron: Cosimo the Elder Location: Cell 6 Intercessors: Virgin Mary & St. Dominic
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The Corronation of the Virgin Mary Fra Angelico 1436-42 Patron: Cosimo the Elder Location: Cell 9 Intercessors: St. Thomas Aquinus, St. Benedict, St. Dominic, St. Peter Martyr, Mark
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David michelangelo 1501-1504 Patron: Opera del Duomo Orig. intended for one of the back butresses of the Duomo 1503 the Signoria decides to put it in the Piazza to Magnifico
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Prisoner a.k.a Slave Michelangelo 1521-1523 Patron: Pope Julius II never finished because his demand was too great
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St. Peter's Basilica Bramante 1505 (died 1514) Patron: Pope Julius II Greek Cross Plan
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St. Peter's Michelangelo 1546 (till death) Patron: Pope Paul III Greek Cross Plan w/ Portico
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Pieta Michelangelo 1498 Patron: French Cardinal Orig. Location: Old St. Peter's
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling Michelangelo 1508-1512 Patron: Pop Julius II Main row depicts Genesis, the men on seats are old testiment prophets, the women are sybells, in the spandrels and lunettes are ancestors of Jesus
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Universal Flood Michelangelo 1508-1512 Patron: Pope Julius II Location: Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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Temptation and Expulsion from Eden ## Footnote Michelangelo 1508-1512 Patron: Pope Julius II Location: Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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Creation of Man Michelangelo 1508-1512 Patron: Pope Julius II Location: Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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New Sacristy Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patrons: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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Tomb of Lorenzo di Medici Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patrons: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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Tomb of Guiliano di Medici ## Footnote Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patrons: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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"Night" Tomb of Lorenzo di Medici Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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"Day" ## Footnote Tomb of Lorenzo di Medici Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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"Dawn" ## Footnote Tomb of Guiliano di Medici Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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"Dusk" Tomb of Guiliano di Medici ## Footnote Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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Madonna and Child Michelangelo 1519-1534 Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII
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Madonna of the Impannata Raphael 1515 Patron: Pop Leo X
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Assumptio of Mary Andrea del Sarto 1523 style: High Renaissance
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Angelo Doni and Maddaleno Strozzi Doni Raphael 1505 Patron: Angelo Doni
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Madonna della Seggiola Raphael 1513 Patron: unknown Tondo
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La Velata Raphael 1517 Patron: unknown portrait
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Perspective
creation of a 3D space on a 2D plane
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Memento Mori
symbols meant to remind us of our mortality
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Quatrefoil
"four leaves" decorative framework often used in Christian decoration
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Nakedness vs. Nude
Temporary absece of Clothing vs specific absense on a perfect body
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Pieta
"Pity" Virgin Mary holding a dead Jesus
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Palazzo della Signoria vs. Palazzo Vecchio
1572 Medici move to Pitti Palace
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Chiaroscuro
"Light Dark" use of contrast ot create the 3D Leonardo da Vinci
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Gothic Style
Elaborate frame pointed arches frame organizes painting gold background flad 2D goldplate halos
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Predella
Lower section of an altarpiece or niche
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Sfumato
"smoke" smoky hazeyness to an image Leonard da Vinci
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Atmospheric Perspective
Treatment of the background with optical accuracy
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Tondo
"round" Circular/round painting
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Cloister
Religious courtyard

Italian Art History (2 decks)

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