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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

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

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”

Tomb of Lorenzo di Medici

Michelangelo

1519-1534

Patron: Pope Leo X & Pope Clement VII

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“Dawn”

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

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

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creation of a 3D space on a 2D plane

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Memento Mori

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symbols meant to remind us of our mortality

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Quatrefoil

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“four leaves”

decorative framework often used in Christian decoration

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Nakedness vs. Nude

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Temporary absece of Clothing

vs

specific absense on a perfect body

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Pieta

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“Pity”

Virgin Mary holding a dead Jesus

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Palazzo della Signoria

vs.

Palazzo Vecchio

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1572

Medici move to Pitti Palace

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Chiaroscuro

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“Light Dark”

use of contrast ot create the 3D

Leonardo da Vinci

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Gothic Style

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Elaborate frame

pointed arches

frame organizes painting

gold background

flad 2D goldplate halos

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Predella

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Lower section of an altarpiece or niche

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Sfumato

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“smoke”

smoky hazeyness to an image

Leonard da Vinci

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Atmospheric Perspective

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Treatment of the background with optical accuracy

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Tondo

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“round”

Circular/round painting

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Cloister

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Religious courtyard

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