Early Renaissance in Italy

(1400-1490)

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Introduction Focus on history of art in Early Italian

Renaissance It was a very remarkable period of time It would lead into a period called High

Renaissance Important in our visual literacy

1.ItalyCity State

Spirit of competition

Importance of humans

1.1Florence

Medici family

Medici Family

The biggest accomplishments of the Medici were in the sponsorship of art and architecture, mainly early and High Renaissance art and architecture.

Medici Family

The Medici were responsible for the majority of Florentine art during their reign. Their money was significant because during this period, artists generally only made their works when they received commissions in advance.

2. PaintingsArt based on heaven to being based on the

natural world

Inspired by humanism

Appeared 3D to the human eyes

Paolo Uccello1397 – 1475Italian painterNotable for his pioneering work on visual

perspective in artHe used perspective His style is best described as idiosyncratic

Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello

Saint George and the Dragon c. 1470

Paolo Uccello

Battle of San Romano

Fra Angelico

c. 1395 – February 18, 1455 Early Italian Renaissance painter "Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the

Angelic' “Works within the framework of the Early

Renaissance style embody a serene religious attitude and reflect a strong Classical influence.

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Fra Angelico

The Last Judgment,1425-1430

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Fra Angelico

The Virgin of the Annunciation,1437-1446

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Masaccio Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 –

autumn 1428) The first great painter of

the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance

He was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time

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Masaccio

Masaccio, Self-Portrait

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Masaccio

San Governable Triptych ,1422

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Masaccio

,1426Crucifixion

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Masaccio

,1424Madonna and Child with St. Anne

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Fra Filippo Lippi

1406-1469 Pupil of Masaccio Recorded as a painter in 1430 Fra Filippo Lippi's later painting style is

linear, lyrical, and decorative, a product of his own fantastic imagination.

Fra Filippo Lippi was more interested in nature and landscape depiction

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Fra Filippo Lippi

Self-portrait

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Fra Filippo Lippi

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Portrait of a Man and Woman at a Casement (c. 1440)

Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna with Child Enthroned

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Sandro Botticelli c 1445-1510

Italian PainterUsed oil to make paintings of figuresFigures of his work tended to be of sculptural

roundness and strengthUsed mythological figures in his art work

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Sandro Botticelli

Painted his self - from his painting the “Adoration of Magi”

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Sandro Botticelli

Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, dating from 1475 or 1476. It is housed in the Uffizi of Florence.

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Sandro Botticelli

The birth of Venus, 1486

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Sandro Botticelli

,1500-1501The Mystical Nativity

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Sandro Botticelli

,1482Primavera

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Pietro Perugino

1445-1524 Early Renaissance Painter of the Umbrian

school His style is characterized by dazzling colors,

spatial clarity of his compositions and a harmonious union between figure and landscape.

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Pietro Perugino

The Delivery of the Keys fresco, 1481–1482, Sistine Chapel, Rome.

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Pietro Perugino

Gonfalone with Pietà, c. 1472

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Domenico Ghirlandaio1480

(1449-94) Ghirlandaio had always used a slightly

anachronistic approach, placing portraits of contemporaries alongside religious figures.

His settings are pastiches of classicizing fictions and real places.

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

self-portrait

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

An Old Man and his Grandson(ca. 1490) Louvre, Paris

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni(1488). Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; formerly in. theMorgan Library

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Domenico Ghirlandaio

The Crossing of the Red Sea between 1481 and 1482

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Piero della Francesca

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Piero della Francesca ( 1415– 1492) was a painter of the Early Renaissance

Appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its

serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective.

Piero della Francesca

A self-portrait, detail from Resurrection

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Piero della Francesca

,1450The Baptism of Christ

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Piero della Francesca

,1455–1460The Flagellation of Christ

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Piero dellaFrancesc

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,1472The Montefeltro Altarpiece

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Andrea Mantegna born 1431-died 1506Northern Early Italian Renaissancepainter and

engraver best known for painting heroic figures depicted in sharpperspective through the use of dramaticforeshortening.

Andrea Mantegna often placed the subject of his work high up in the picture plane to give the illusion that the viewer is looking up from down below.

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St. James led to his execution c. 1455

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St. Sebastian,1456-1459

3. ArchitectureMathematics gave an insight into Classical

methods of proportion and structure

Defined by flat surfaces and strong lines

Important part symmetry

Palazzi

Filippo Brunelleschi

(Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]; 1377 – April 15, 1446)

One of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance.

He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of perspective

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 Filippo Brunelleschi 2.10

Presumed depiction in Resurrection of the Son of Theophilus, Masaccio

Filippo Brunelleschi 2.10

1436 Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower

Filippo Brunelleschi 2.10

Section of the dome

Leon Battista Alberti

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Nave of the Santo Spirito, 1441–1481

Leon Battista Alberti(February 14, 1404 – April 20, 1472)

Italian author, artist, architect, poet,priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

He is often characterized as an "architect“.

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Leon Battista Alberti

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Self-portrait

Leon Battista Alberti

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Tempio Malatestiano,1450-1468

Leon Battista Alberti

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Palazzo Rucellai,1446-1451

4.SculptureEarly Renaissance sculptors took inspiration

directly from Classical Roman and Greek sculptor.

They imbued their free-standing figures with a range of emotions and filled them with energy and thought.

Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian: [loˈrɛntso giˈbɛrti])

(1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was anFlorentine

Italian sculptor of the Early Renaissance Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he

established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.

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Lorenzo Ghiberti on Gates of Paradise,Baptistery, Florence

Lorenzo Ghiberti 2.12

Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti 2.12

Adam and eve

Lorenzo Ghiberti 2.12

In Flagellation, one of the panels on the North Doors

Donatello

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 – December 13, 1466), better known as Donatello,

An early Renaissance Italian sculptor Known for his work in bas-relief

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Donatello's statue outside of the Uffizi Galleria.

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Gattamelata,1453

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bronze statue of David (circa 1440s)

Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛa del verˈrɔkkjo]

Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence in the early renaissance.

His greatest importance was as a sculptor

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Self-portrait

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Christ and Saint Thomas,1467-1483

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Christ and St. Thomas (Orsanmichele, Florence)

Andrea del Verrocchio

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Winged boy with Dolphin (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)