ITALIAN EARLY RENAISSANCE ART in FLORENCE

Italian Early Renaissance Art 1400-1500

Renaissance or rebirth of: nature classical antiquityGreco-Roman heritage ideal canon of beauty Concern with: individual and civil society Humanism Technical Advances: printing press Gutenberg, 1445 scientific observation and experimentation human anatomy linear perspective In Art: ideals of harmony and rational representation

Florence

Renaissance florence

Renaissance Florence

Brunelleschi

Donatello

Masaccio

Jan van Eyck, Double Portrait (Arnolfini Wedding) 1434 (perspectival layout)

A: Horizon line C: vanishing point D: orthogonals

Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors, c. 142526/27, fresco

What you are now I once was, what I am now you will be

Plan and elevation of the fictive chapel

Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors, c. 142526/27, fresco

Vanishing point and orthogonal lines

Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors, c. 142526/27, fresco

Baptistery of florence

East Doors, Gates of paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise, Florence, Baptistery, gilded bronze, 142552

Ghiberti, first set of doors for the Baptistery, 1403-24

Sacrifice of Isaac

Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise

Jacob and Esau

First door

Second door

First door

Second door

Ghiberti, Jacob and Esau, from Gates of Paradise, Florence, Baptistery, gilded bronze, 1425-52

Ghibertis SelfPortrait Jacob and Esau

Subject: Genesis 25, 27

Term: Continuous narrative

term: relief sculpture

DONATELLO, David, bronze (c.144660)

courtyard of medici palace

Subject: 1 Samuel 17

The victor is whoever defends the fatherland. Allpowerful God crushes the angry enemy. Behold, a boy overcame the great tyrant. Conquer, O citizens! (written on the pedestal of the sculpture in the Medici palace)

Donatello, David, marble, 1408-09

Cf. classical nude

DONATELLO, David, bronze (c.1446-60) Term: contraposto

DONATELLO, David, bronze (c.1446-60)

DONATELLO, David, bronze (c.1446-60)

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484-86

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484-86 (detail)

Venus Pudica, 1 century B.C.

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484-86 (detail)

Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484-86