Important Works

Question 1

Giotto

Lamentation

Answer 1

Arena Chapel, Padua
1305
Pieta; empathy: human interaction (expression, movement); cangianti

Question 2

Andrea da Firenze

The Triumph of the Church

Answer 2

Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
c. 1370.
Dominican ideology; includes local landscape

Question 3

Donatello

Feast of Herod

Answer 3

Siena Baptistery,
1430
complex space; continous narrative; perspective (2 vanishing points, grid)

Question 4

Masaccio

Enthroned Madonna and Child

Answer 4

1430

Cloak is cast in real shadow (chiaroscuro); she overcomes the space

Question 5

Masaccio

The Tribute Money

Answer 5

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1420s.
Perspective is used to tell a story: con. Narrative; natural light source; landscape (Giotto, Donatello- aerial perspective)

Question 6

Masaccio

The Trinity

Answer 6

Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
1430.
Truths of religion are as clear as the axiums of math; first monumental perspectival painting; momento mori

Question 7

Paolo Uccello

Battle of San Romano

Answer 7

1440.

Over does it with the math- no longer relatable

Question 8

Fra Angelico

Annunciation,

Answer 8

1430

modular/cubic; hortus conclusus (ties virgin and christ with adam and eve); perspective

Question 9

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Allegory of Good Government
Effects of Good Government

Answer 9

Palazzo Communale, Siena,
1340
inspiration for what the gov’t should strive for (justice, etc.); first cityscape; represents the movement away from feudalism towards communes

Question 10

Fra Angelico,

Annunciation

Answer 10

San Marco, Florence,
1440
Reminder of religious duties; modular recession; conflation of space

Question 11

Fra Filippo Lippi,

Bartolini Tondo

Answer 11

1450.

Continuous narrative; first example of a tondo; motherhood

Question 12

Fra Filippo Lippi,

Martelli Annunciation

Answer 12

c. 1440.

First squared altarpiece; commentator figure; Netherlandish influence in the vase

Question 13

Domenico Veneziano,

Saint Lucy Altarpiece

Answer 13

c. 1450

Sacrae conversazione; commentator figure; suffused with light (new)- light as a measurement

Question 14

Andrea del Castagno,

Last Supper

Answer 14

Refectory, Sant’ Apollonia, Florence,
1450
Heavy line and modeling; emotional imperitive; halos are lit for the first time

Question 15

Piero della Francesca

Baptism of Christ

Answer 15

1450s.

Varieta; rhyme scheme between figures and nature (Christ’s legs and the tree); no shadow