Florence Flashcards
“The Baptistery”
San Giovanni
“The Belltower”
Campanile, Giotto 1334 > Pisano>Talenti
Space between Cathedral Façade and Baptistery
Paradiso
former cemetary
Cassone
a chest or box
Filippo Brunelleschi
architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for his development of linear perspective and for engineering the dome of the Florence Cathedral, lost the competition for the baptistry doors, went to rome with donatello for six years, 1403-1409 makes the biggest santa maria del fiore dome EVA. snack bars save lives.
Spalliera
“backrest [for a piece of furniture],”
Cimabue
mosaics, breaking away from italo byzantine, discovered giotto according to vasari, gold,
giotto
first great painter of italian renaissance, discovered drawing goats on a rock, Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, campanile of Florence Cathedral,
Battiloro
gold beater works in the painters studio (presses gold leaf very thin)
bole
red clay
pastiglia
“pastework”, is low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead
andrea pisano
goldsmith turned painter, architect, southern doors of the baptistery, hexagonal
donatellio
cathedral facade niches,
lorenzo ghiberti
trained as goldsmith, #1 bronze sculptor early ren, north & eastern baptistery doors, international gothic style, won over brunalleschi
all’antica
inspired by antiquity
imago clipeata
circular roman portrait
st john
he wears animal skins, baptized jesus, patron saint of florence,
antonio Pollaiolo
talian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance. profiles of women, hair. hercules slaying the hydra
vernacular tradition
oral visual, low class, not humanities like law and stuff
medici
was a political dynasty, banking family , wool guild
rilievo schiacciato
scratched relief
palazzo
palace, home, or apartment
loggia
a gallery or room with one or more open sides
leon battista alberti
architect behind palazzo ruchellai
Calimala Guild
Wool dyers finishers and merchants
Lana Guild
wool merchants and manufacturers. lanaiuoli = textile dyers
Seta Guild
silk guild, included bronze and goldsmiths
Apothecary Guild
painters
Signoria
the government of medieval and renaissance Florence. the Priori, were chosen from the ranks of the guilds of the city: six of them from the major guilds, and two from the minor guilds.
Intonaco
the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted.
fresco
mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. fresco= fresh
Giovanni Milani
merchant who documented statistics of florence – lots of info about population etc.
Black Death
1348, 40,000 Florentines died in one year, half the population and a third of the market
sottoposti
industry workers, subordinates
ciompi revolution
1378, worker revolution – marxists say it was the first form of unionization, but we think it was just the sottposti trying to go back to what the guilds once were, looking out for them. halved wool production.
Visconti
the milanese lord that tried to take over florence
trecento
14th century, 1300s
quatrocento
15th century 1400s
quadrefoil
featured on the doors of the baptistry
