Renaissance/Baroque Midterm Flashcards
Simone Martini
Annunciation
panel
1333
Original location: Siena Cathedral, chapel of S. Ansano (part of program of narrative polyptychs)
City State of Siena
Giotto
Scenes from the lives of the Virgin and Christ.
Fresco,
c. 1303-9.
Location: Arena Chapel, Padua.
Commissioner: Enrico Scrovegni
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Allegory of Good Government
Fresco
1338-39.
Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)
Commissioner: city state or commune.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Effects of Good Government in the City
Fresco
1338-39.
Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)
Commissioner: city state or commune.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Effects of Good Government in the Country
Fresco
1338-39.
Location: Sala de nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. (part of series)
Commissioner: city state or commune.
Brunelleschi
Santo. Spirito, Florence. (Ground plan and interior)
Designed mid 1430s; built 1446 to late 15th century.
Patron: Augustinian monks.
Donatello
St. Mark
Marble
1411-13.
Location: Orsanmichele, Florence.
Patron: guild of Linaiuoli (Linen Drapers)
Donatello
David.
Bronze
c. 1440.
Location: Courtyard of Medici Palace.
Patron: Cosimo de Medici
Masaccio
Trinity.
Fresco
c. 1428.
Location: Santa Maria Novella, Florence (fictive tomb chapel in side aisle)
Patron: Member of Lenzi family, standard-bearer of Florentine Republic, who died in 1426 and is buried in floor in front of fresco.
Masaccio
Expulsion of Adam and Eve
Fresco
c. 1425.
Location: Brancacci Family Chapel, Santa Maria
del Carmine, Florence.
Patron: Probably Carmelite Monks using the funds donated by a member of the Brancacci family in the 14th century
Leon Battista Alberti
Sant’Andrea, Mantua
begun 1470.
Patron: Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga
Filippo Lippi
Annunciation.
Tempera on panel
c.1440.
Location: San Lorenzo, Florence.
Patron: Martelli family
Domenico Veneziano
Virgin and child with Saints (St. Lucy Altarpiece)
Tempera on panel
c. 1445.
Location: High altar, Santa Lucia, Florence.
Patron: unknown
Fra Angelico
Descent from the Cross
Tempera on panel
late 1430s [date differs from Hartt].
Location: Sacristy, Santa Trinita, Florence
Patron: Palla Strozzi
Mantegna
Dead Christ (Lamentation)
Tempera on panel
After 1466.
Location: unknown (probably Gonzaga Palace, Mantua).
Patron: probably Lodovico Gonzaga
Uccello
The Battle of San Romano
Tempera on panel
c. 1445
Location: Medici Palace
Patron: Medici Family
Jan Van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece
Oil on panel
1432
Location: Cathedral of St.Bavo, Ghent.
Patron: Jodocus Vyd, Ghent
Master of Flemalle (Robert Campin?)
Annunciation (Merode altarpiece)
oil on panel
c.1425-26
Patron: Inghelbrechts, Mechelen
Jan Van Eyck
Chancellor Rolin kneeling before the Virgin and child
Oil on panel
c. 1433-34
Location: Notre Dame, Autun
Patron: Chancellor Rolin
(Not an altarpiece)
Rogier van der Weyden
Descent from the Cross
Oil on panel
c.1435
Location: Church of Notre Dame, Louvain.
Patron: Crossbowmen’s Guild, Louvain.
(Probably the central panel of a triptych; figures include St. Joseph of Arimethea and St. Nicodemus)
Jan Van Eyck
Portraits of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife.
Oil on panel
1434.
Commissioned by Giovanni, a Florentine silk merchant living in Bruges.
Location unknown but probably Arnolfini’s house
Botticelli
Birth of Venus.
Tempera on canvas
after 1482.
Patron: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco del Medici.
Location: Lorenzo’s country villa
Pollaiuolo
Hercules and Antaeus
Bronze
1470s
Location: Medici Palace, Florence.
Patron: Medici family
Piero della Francesca
Portraits of Federigo da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza.
Tempera and oil on panel
mid 1470s
Patron: Duke Federigo.
Location: Federigo’s palace in Urbino.
Mantegna
Camera degli Sposi (Painted Room).
Frescoes
1465-74
Patron: Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga.
Location: Lodovico’s room in his Castle, Mantua
Castagno
Last Supper.
Fresco
c. 1445-50
Location: Refectory, Convent of S.Appollonia, Florence.
Patrons: Benedictine nuns
Leonardo da Vinci
Last Supper.
Fresco
1495-98
Patron: Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan.
Location: Refectory, Domenican Monastery of S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci
Battle of Anghiari.
Fresco
1503-6
Location: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence (Town Hall).
Patron: Government of Florence.
Destroyed in 16th century, and studied in 17th century copy by Rubens.
Leonardo da Vinci
Virgin and Child with St. Anne.
Panel
c. 1501-13.
Patron and intended location unknown
(Altarpiece)
Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini. known as Mona Lisa.
Oil on Panel
1503-6
Patron: her husband, Francesco del Giocondo
Original intended location: His Palace, but painting remained with artist
Michelangelo
David.
Marble
1501-4
Intended location: tribune, Cathedral, Florence.
Eventual location: in front of Palazzo Vecchio (Town Hall), Florence
Patron: Opera del Duomo (Cathedral Overseers)
Michelangelo
Crossed leg Slave
Marble
1527-28. Unfinished.
Location: for the Papal Tomb of Julius II.
Patron: Della Rovere family.
Ghirlandaio
Birth of the Virgin.
Fresco
1485-90.
Location: choir, S. Maria Novella, Florence.
Patron: Giovanni Tornabuoni
Perugino (Raphael’s Master)
Donation of Keys to St. Peter
Fresco
1481
Location: One of a mural cycle with scenes from the Lives of Christ and Moses, Sistine Chapel, Vatican
Patron: Pope Sixtus IV
Michelangelo
Vault of the Sistine Chapel
Frescoes
1508-12
Location:Commissioned by Pope Julius II for the Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace, Rome, that had been built by his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV in the 1470s.
(See detail images)
Raphael
Disputa (Theology)
Frescoes
1509-11.
Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Papal Library), Vatican Palace, Rome.
Patron: Pope Julius II
(view detail images)
Raphael
School of Athens (Philosophy)
Frescoes
1509-11
Location: Stanza della Segnatura (Papal Library), Vatican Palace, Rome.
Patron: Pope Julius II
(view detail images)
Raphael
Sistine Madonna.
Oil on canvas (altarpiece)
1513
Location: S. Sisto, Piacenza.
Patron: Pope Julius II
Raphael
Galatea.
Fresco (villa decoration)
c. 1513
Location: Villa Farnesina, Rome
Patron: Agostino Chigi, Pope’s Banker
Raphael
Portrait of Pope Leo X del Medici with his nephews. Cardinals Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi.
Panel
c. 1517.
Location: unknown (either Vatican Palace or Medici Palace)
Patron: Pope Leo X
