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Sassetta, St. Francis in Ecstasy, San Sepolcro Altarpiece, 1437-44

  • Patriarch of the poor
  • Mandella- almond shape
  • Three virtues at the top; poverty, raggedy dress; charity, holding flowers; obedience, yolk
  • At the bottom is the opposite of the virtues; lust, looking at a mirror and sitting on a boar; greed, bag of coin falling out; wrath, war like
  • St. Francis standing on the vices
  • The entire altarpiece is surrounded around the theme of poverty
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Sassetta, Marriage of St. Francis to Lady Poverty, San Sepolcro Altarpiece, 1437-44

Showing his commitment to the virtue poverty

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Jacopo della Quercia, Ilaria del Carretto Tomb Monument, 1406

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Jacopo della Quercia, Fonte Gaia, Siena, 1408-19

The happy, gay fountain

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1.Jacopo della Quercia, Creation, Expulsion, and Adam and Eve at Work, San Petronio, Bologna, 1425-39.

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  1. Alberti, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 1450
    - Filled niche space in the front
    - There is no religious indication that it’s a Christian church
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Agostino di Duccio, Signs of the Zodiac: Aquarius; Diana, Rimini, 1450s

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  1. Matteo de Pasti, Medal of Isotta degli Atti, 1446
    - Rose bush
    - Elephant
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1.Pisanello, Medal of Sigismondo Malatesta, 1445

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1.Bernardo Rossellino, Plan of Pienza, 1462

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1.Pisanello, Medal of Alfonso V of Aragon, 1449

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1.Triumphal Arch of Alfonso of Aragon and detail, Naples, 1453-71

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  1. Piero della Francesca, frescoes from the Legend of the True Cross, Arezzo, 1450s: Meeting of Solomon and Sheba
    - Adds the annunciation although it’s not apart of the original story
    - When Adam dies, the tree that sprouts over his grave becomes sacred; the wood gets buried and then Christ is crucified on iti
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  1. Piero della Francesca, frescoes from the Legend of the True Cross, Arezzo, 1450s: Discovery and Proof of the Cross
    - Adds the annunciation although it’s not apart of the original story
    - When Adam dies, the tree that sprouts over his grave becomes sacred; the wood gets buried and then Christ is crucified on iti
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1.Luciano Laurana, the Ducal Palace of Urbino, 1465

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  1. Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, Ducal Palace of Urbino, 1476
    - A place where someone would go alone in order to read and study
    - Would have paintings on scholars and men around the room
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  1. Piero della Francesca, Portraits of Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro, 1472 (front and back)
    - Portraits become very popular within the courts
    - Man is with water, sign of movement and trade
    - Woman is with land, sign of fertility
    - Reverse: Triumph of Federico and Battista

Montefeltro medal

  • Ball is a symbol of balance
  • One side is military skills; swords, armor
  • Venus and love on the other side; learning and education
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  1. Piero della Francesca, Flagellation, 1460
    - Divided with two different time periods
    - Before Christ is crucified he is wiped by his captors
    - Helios (god of the sun) at the top of the column (pagan) in a classical room
    - Pontius pilot sitting in the background
    - The three people to the right look like a man from the eat, an angel, and a Duke
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  1. Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with Saints, 1472
    - A great battle that Federico was victorious
    - Egg over the Madonna’s egg
    - The women in the back are wingless angels
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1.Pedro Berruguete or Justus of Ghent, Federico da Montefeltro and his Son Guido Baldo, 1476

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  1. Antonio Pisanello, St. George and the Princess, Sant’Anastasia, Verona, 1430s, fresco
    - Good at depicting animals and nature
    - Two men hanged in the background; makes it more naturalistic
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  1. Antonio Pisanello, Vision of St. Eustace, 1440
    - Supposed to be from the time of Trajan
    - Becomes a maredered and roasted alive because he became Christian
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  1. Antonio Pisanello, Medal of Leonello d’Este, 1444
    - Lion- relates to his name
    - Eros or cupid relating to love
    - Lion and cupid is how love calms the beast
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  1. Antonio Pisanello, Portrait of Leonello d’Este, 1441
    - Recognizable hair and head shape
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1.Francesco del Cossa, fresco from the Hall of the Months (April), Schifanoia Palace, Ferrara, 1460s-70s

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1.Alberti, Sant’Andrea (facade, plan and interior), Mantua, 1472

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1.Andrea Mantegna, San Zeno altarpiece, 1456

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1.Andrea Mantegna, Saint Sebastian, 1450s-70s

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1.Andrea Mantegna, Camera Picta (Ludovico Gonzaga with his Family and Courtiers), Ducal Palace, Mantua, 1465-74, fresco

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1.Andrea Mantegna, oculus from Camera Picta, Ducal Palace, Mantua, 1465-74, fresco

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1.Andrea Mantegna, Parnassus, 1499-1502

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1.Andrea Mantegna, Athena (Pallas) Expelling the Vices, 1499-1502

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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate, 1480
    - Pomegranate represents rebirth and resurrection
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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1470s
    - Classical building and ruins
    - Reminder that the old Pagan life is gone and Christian life is coming/ present
    - The artist is all the way to the right and the same size as the other figures
    - The patron is to the right behind a few people, looking at the artist
    - The Medici brothers are to the left of the painting
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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, 1480
    - Goddess of Spring—Pagan concept
    - The three graces—gift giving, what goes around comes around
    - Cupid at the top
    - Zephyr, the west wind, to the right
    - Mercury to the left, seasons will change and fertility will be alive
    - Cloris and Flora to the right
    - Medici commission
    - Mimicking tapestries
    - Orange trees is to recall Medici coat of arms
    - Cloris and Flora is being chased by Zephyr, he rapes Cloris and then they fall in love and then he turns her into Flora, goddess of flowers
    - Primavera looks pregnant
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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1480
    - Almost manneristic forms
    - Elongated features on Venus—the fingers
    - Cronus cuts off the genitals of his father Uranus, from the genitals and the sea foam, Venus is born in the ocean, she comes ashore on an oyster shell
    - Dedicated to earth, beauty and mystical, spiritual
    - Zephyr and Aurora- the west wind
    - Woman represents spring, covered in flowers and roses
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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Camilla and the Centaur, 1482
    - Was next to the Primavera in its original location
    - She seems to represent chastity
    - Centaurs usually represent lust
    - She is taming him, restraining him
    - Medici commission—on her clothes there is a symbol of the Medici—three diamond rings
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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Man with a Medal, 1460s-70s
    - Shown engaged with the viewer
    - Holding a medal (it is raised from the panel due to gilding) showing Medici
    - Learned landscape from Lippi (he knew a lot about Northern landscape)
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1.Sandro Botticelli, St, Augustine in his Study, 1480, fresco

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1.Sandro Botticelli, St. Augustine in his Study, 1490s, tempera on panel

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  1. Sandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity, 1500
    - They didn’t know what would happen when it turned 1500, similar to how we didn’t know what would happen when it turned 2000
    - Angels embracing each other at the bottom
    - Demons at the bottom as well
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Giuliano da Sangallo, Medici Villa at Poggio a Caiano, Florence, 1480s

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  1. Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Matteo Raverti, Ca’d’Oro (Contarini Palace), Venice, 1421-37
    - Similar to Medici Palace in Florence
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1.Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Sultan Mehmet II, 1479

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1.Gentile Bellini, Procession of the Reliquary of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco, 1496

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1.Vittore Carpaccio, Miracle at the Rialto, 1494

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1.Giovanni Bellini, San Zaccaria Altarpiece, 1505

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1.Giovanni Bellini, Saint Francis, 148

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