Midterm 2 Art Works

Question 1

Answer 1

Andrea Pisano, Baptistery doors (with scenes from life of John the Baptist and 8 Virtues), south side,
Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, gilt bronze. 1330-1336

Question 2

Answer 2

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)

Sacrifice of Isaac, bronze relief, Baptistery doors competition,

Florence, 1402

Question 3

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Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1456)

Sacrifice of Isaac, bronze relief, Baptistery doors competition,

Florence, 1402

Question 4

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Lorenzo Ghiberti,

Baptistery Doors (with Scenes from the Life of Christ,

4 Evangelists, and 4 Doctors of the Church),

Baptistery of San Giovanni, north side

Florence, 1402-1424

Question 5

Answer 5

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Christ Carrying the Cross, Baptistery Doors,

Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, ca. 1417-21

Question 6

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Giovanni Pisano, Simeon,

originally located on

façade of Siena Duomo,

1284-1296

Question 7

Answer 7

Donatello, David, marble, 6’3”, originally intended for top of buttress, Duomo,

Florence, 1408

Question 8

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Orsanmichele (Or San Michele), guild hall, granary, guild church;

Florence, 1337-1380

Question 9

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Lorenzo Ghiberti, St. John the Baptist, Orsanmichele, bronze,

8’ 2 ½”, commissioned by Wool Merchants’ Guild, Florence, 1412-1416

Question 10

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Donatello, St. Mark, Orsanmichele, commissioned by

Linen Weavers’ Guild, marble, 8 ft., Florence, 1411-1413

Question 11

Answer 11

Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, Orsanmichele,

marble, 6 ft. tall, commissioned by Stonecarvers’ and

Woodworkers’ Guild, Florence

Question 12

Answer 12

Donatello, St. George and the Dragon,
socle relief for St. George, Orsanmichele,
rilievo schiacciato, marble, Florence, ca. 1417

Question 13

Answer 13

Filippo Brunelleschi, Ospedale degli Innocenti

(Foundling Hospital), Florence, designed 1418, built 1421-1444

Question 14

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Filippo Brunelleschi, (right) Cupolo, Duomo,

Florence, 1417-1436

Question 15

Answer 15

Masolino, Temptation of Adam, Brancacci

Chapel, Florence, fresco, 1424-1427

Question 16

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Strozzi Altarpiece (Adoration of the Magi),

9’10” x 9’3”, Sacristy of S. Trinita, Florence, 1423

Question 17

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Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve

From Paradise, Brancacci Chapel,

Florence, fresco, 1424-1427

Question 18

Answer 18

Masaccio, Tribute Money, fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Florence; 8’1” x 19’7”, 1424-1427

Question 19

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Gentile da Fabriano, Enthroned Madonna and Child with

Sts. Lawrence and Julian, tempera and gold on panel, 1423-1425

Question 20

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Masaccio, Enthroned Madonna and Child,

(Pisa Polyptych), for Carmelite church, Pisa;

tempera and gold on panel, 53” x 29”, 1426

Question 21

Answer 21

Hypothetical reenactment of Filippo Brunelleschi’s development of one-point linear, using painted panel of Baptistery rendered in systematic perspective and to scale; Florence, ca. 1420

Question 22

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Leon Battista Alberti, Diagram from De Pictura (On Painting), showing method for deriving images using one-point linear perspective, 1435

Question 23

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Trinity with perspectival analysis

showing vanishing point and orthogonals

Question 24

Answer 24

Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence; fresco, 21’ x 10’6”, 1425 or 1427

Question 25

Answer 25

Self-Portrait Medal, bronze, 8 x 5 ½ inches, ca. 1432

Question 26

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Leon Battista Alberti, Tempio Malatestiano (S. Francesco), Rimini, 1447-1460

Question 27

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Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 1460s

Question 28

Answer 28

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, detail of façade, Palazzo Rucellai,with devices of Rucellai (billowing sails) and Medici (diamonds and feathers), Florence, 1460s

Question 29

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Leon Battista Alberti, Sant’Andrea, façade, commissioned by Ludovico Gonzaga, Mantua, begun 1472

Question 30

Answer 30

Leon Battista Alberti, Sant’Andrea, interior With barrel vaults; commissioned by Ludovico Gonzaga, Mantua, begun 1472

Question 31

Answer 31

Arch of Constantine, Rome, ca. 315

Question 32

Answer 32

Pantheon, Rome, ca. AD 106

Question 33

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Basilica of Constantine, Rome, ca. 310

Question 34

Answer 34

Palazzo Davanzati, Florence, built for Davizzi family, second half of 14th c.

Question 35

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Giovanni Mansueti, Miraculous Healing of the Daugher of Ser Nicolò Benvegnudo of S. Polo, oil on canvas, Venice, ca. 1502-1506

Question 36

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Ca’ Loredan, Venice, 13th century; example of a casa-fondaco

Question 37

Answer 37

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Palazzo Medici, Florence, commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici, begun 1444

Question 38

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Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Palazzo Medici: interior courtyard

Question 39

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Donatello, David, bronze, 5’2” tall, bronze, 1440-1443 (or 1460s?)

Question 40

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Spalliera/Painted Wall Panels Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano, tempera on wood, 5’11 ½” x 10’ 5”, originally in Palazzo dei Priori (?), ca. 1436; altered and reinstalled by Lorenzo de’ Medici as spalliera in his ground-floor bedroom, Palazzo Medici

Question 41

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Tondi Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Magnificat, diameter 46 ½ in., 1485

Question 42

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Deschi da parto/Birth Trays Lo Scheggia), Desco da parto (birth tray) of Lorenzo de’ Medici; (obverse) Triumph of Fame, diameter 36 ½ in., ca. 1449

Question 43

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Cassoni/Wedding Chests Paolo Schiavo, cassone, opened to show nude from interior, 1440s

Question 44

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Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio, Palazzo Ducale Urbino, Italy; view from the western approach, 1450s

Question 45

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Giuliano da Maiano, Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, 1473-1476

Question 46

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Domenico Veneziano (or copy after?), Matteo Olivieri, tempera on fabric transferred from wood, 19” x 13 1/4”, ca. 1440

Question 47

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Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man with a Medal of Cosimo de’ Medici, ca. 1470-1475

Question 48

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Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giovanna de’ Tornabuoni, tempera on panel, 1488

Question 49

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Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de’ Benci), tempera on panel, 15 ¼” x 14 1/½ ”, originally showed arms and hands, cut down 1474(?) and 1478/80

Question 50

Answer 50

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule by Honorius III, Sassetti Chapel, with portraits of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Francesco Sassetti, Agnolo Poliziano, and Giovanni de’ Medici (future Leo X), S. Trinità, Florence, ca. 1485

Question 51

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Piero della Francesca, Double Portrait of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (reverse), ca. 1472 Piero della Francesca, Double Portrait of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (obverse), ca. 1472

Question 52

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Melozzo da Forlì, Pope Sixtus IV Appointing Platina Prefect of the Vatican Library, fresco transferred to convas, 1477

Question 53

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Lorenzo Monaco, The Nativity, from predella of Coronation of the Virgin, Florence 1413

Question 54

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Masaccio, Adoration of the Magi, central predella panel for Pisa Altarpiece tempera on wood, 1426

Question 55

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Fra Angelico, San Marco Altarpiece (Madonna and Child with Saints Cosmas and Damian, originally in Observant Dominican Church of San Marco, high altarpiece, ca. 1440

Question 56

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Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy Altarpiece, tempera on panel, 82 x 84”, 1445-1447

Question 57

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Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe Altarpiece, tempera on panel, San Giobbe, Venice, before 1478

Question 58

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Leonardo da Vinci, Adoration of the Magi, tempera on panel, 8’ x 8’1”, begun 1481 for Augustinian canons of San Donato a Scoperto, outside Florence

Question 59

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Donatello Feast of Herod, gilded bronze, Baptistery, Siena 1425

Question 60

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Bernardo, Rossellino, Tomb of Leonardo Bruni, Marble, 20 ft., 1445-1450

Question 61

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Andrea del Verrocchio, David, height 49”, 1473-1476; sold by Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ Medici for placement in the Palazzo della Signoria, 1476

Question 62

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Michelangelo, Bacchus, marble, height 6’ 7 ½”, 1496-1498

Question 63

Answer 63

Andrea Mantegna, Ludovico Gonzaga and His Family with Court, from the Camera Picta, Castello San Giorgio, Mantua, 1466-1475

Question 64

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Benozzo Gozzoli, Retinue of the Young King; (right) detail from Adoration of the Magi, Medici Chapel, Medici Palace, Florence, commissioned by Piero de’ Medici, ca. 1459

Question 65

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Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas, 5’9” x 9’2”, for Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, ca. 1485

Question 66

Answer 66

Andrea del Verrocchio, Portrait bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici, painted terra cotta, ca. 1480

Question 67

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Giuliano da Sangallo, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano, Italy; 1480s

Question 68

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Farnese Cup, four-layer sardonyx agate cameo cup, Hellenistic Egypt, 2nd century BC