Renaissance: Florentine City Palace

Question 1

Palazzo Davanzati

Answer 1

-c1330-14th century -represents a new typology -businesses on bottom floor, family lived above

Question 2

Palazzo Medici-Ricardi

Answer 2

-1444ff -Michelozzo Michelozzi -Medici family originally asked Brunelleschi to design plaza but his design was too ostentatious -broken into levels by string courses and rustification

Question 3

Aedicule

Answer 3

a temple like motif, often used as a window or niche

Question 4

Courtyard of Palazzo Medici

Answer 4

composed of four arcades -unusally wide frienze -comice filled with sculpture roundels

Question 5

Palazzo Ruccelai

Answer 5

-1456ff Design: Leon Battista Alberti Execution: Bernardo Rosselino -comparable to Flavian Amphitheatre, Colosseum

Question 6

Palazzo Pitti

Answer 6

1458ff -built for Luca Pitti -built by Luca Fancelli, pupil of Branelleschi -“the rejected ostentatious design”

Question 7

City of Pienza

Answer 7

-1459-1464 -for pope Pius II Piccolomini -built by Bernardo Rosselino, Alberti’s pupil

Question 8

Palazzo Venezia

Answer 8

-Rome -unfinished courtyard by circle of Alberti -1467-71 -comparable to Colloseum again

Question 9

Answer 9

Federgio da Montefeltro and wife, Battista Sforza -duke and duchess of Urbino -1465

Question 10

Palazzo Ducale

Answer 10

-Urbino Luciano Laurana redesigned palace in 1466/67 -construction completed by Francesco di Giorgio in 1475

Question 11

“Lamentation over the Dead Christ”

Answer 11

-Giotto di Bondoni -from Arena Chapel, Padua -1305 -gives figures a feeling of occupying space

Question 12

Birth of the Virgin

Answer 12

-Pietro Lorenzetti -1342 -optical perception