The Well Of moses

Claus Sluter 

(dijon france)

1395-1406

Large sculptural fountain with a crucifixion

6 old testament figures

water represented the blood of christ

in a monestary

rounded solid volumes

drapery cascades in solid, heavy waves

The calander from les tres riches heures du duc de berry

illumination

limbourg brothers

flemish

international gothic style

each pages a calander for book of hours

the top has astrological signs of each month

shows labors of the month

naturlism in details

january exchanging new years gifts

duke to the right in blue

Merode Alterpiece

flemish

oil on wood

15th century

Robert Campin

left panel: middle class people kneeling before holy scene

center panel: annunciation taking place in common place

Right panel: joseph in carpentry workshop

Symbols, towels and water (marys purity), mary on the floor (humility), mary blocks fireplace (hell), mousetrap (capturing devil)

domestic interior

Ghent altarpiece

St. bavo cathedral

flemish

Jan van eyck

great detail/realism

polyptych

exterior: annunciation

interior bottom: lamb of god

interior top: god in center adam and eve on outside

Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride

15th century

oil on wood

Jan Van Eyck

flemish

burning candle (first night of wedding)

shoes off (holy ground)

dog (fidelity)

Two witnesses seen in convex mirror

wife's dress symbolizes childbirth

oranges wealth

Jan Van Eyck

man in a red turban

15th century

oil on wood

may be self portraite 

flemish

Deposition

Rogier Van der Weyden

oil on wood

shallow stage for figures jambed into a confining space

strong emotional impact

shows christ off the cross

image for the archers guild

flemish

ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN. LAST JUDGMENT ALTARPIECE, HOTEL DIEU (BEAUNE, FRANCE), C. 1444-1448, PANEL

christ and angels

prediction of end

Flemish ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN. PORTRAIT OF A LADY, C. 1460, OIL ON PANEL

geometric

portrature

 symbol of wealth

PETRUS CHRISTUS. A GOLDSMITH IN HIS SHOP, POSSIBLY ST. ELIGIUS, 1449, OIL ON WOOD

shows the patron saint of goldsmiths

for the goldsmith guild

shows couple buying wedding ring wieghted by a scale

DIRK BOUTS. LAST SUPPER, ST. PETER’S (LOUVAIN, BELGIUM),

rounded not long table

surrounding christ

judus shown

Portinari Alterpiece

15th century

oil on wood

hugo van der goes

florence

placed in a hospital

mary is in center

shows christ as a newborn

plants have medicinal value

continuous landscape

figures at different scales

Saint anthony tormented by demons

engraving 15th century

geman

martin schongauer

precise details

vibrant forms

thin emaciated figures

demons torturing anthony

KONRAD WITZ. MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES, FROM THE ALTARPIECE OF ST. PETER

working

beuty of nature

labor forces

Sacrifice of Isaac

Lorenzo Ghiberti

bronze

done as part of an competetion

(he won)

about to sacrifice son

gothic pattern

figures seperated

interational gothic style

Sacrifice of Isaac

filippo brinelleschi

one dense group

great drama

dramatic tension

more 3d than other

immediacy of the action

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Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti

awarded for winning doors

delicate lines

linear perspective used

lean elegent and elongated bodies

St. Mark

Donatello

marble

controposto

first freestanding statue like greek style

great detail in cloths

Prophet figure (zuccone)

florence cathedral

donatello

detail in robes

eyes are very scary and mystic

15th centry

David

Bronze

Donatello

first nude figure sinc antiquity

s-curve

contraposto

medici

life size

victory over golieth (head on floor)

hat=poet

youthful

Donatello

GATTAMELATA
15th century

bronze

equestrian

honeyed cat

commemorative monument for a ceremony

horse is spirited

like marcus aurelius 

Mary magdalene

Donatello

15th century

florence

gilded hair indicates her spirituality

face shows torture of badly led life

inner prayer

hair symolizes cleaning christ

eye inner reality

David 

Andrea del Verrocccio

bronze

older

musculer

goliths head

clothed

s curve

stiff

holy Trinity

fresco

masaccio

tombstone

Christ is crucifued

patrons kneel outside arch

vanishing point at foot of cross

mary and saint john near him

tribute Money

Masaccio

fresco

illistrates moment from new testament

continuous narrative

related to war of milan

not important landscape

figures cast shadows

Espulsion from the garden of Eden

15th century

fresco

masaccio

bold use of nude forms

intense expressions

bleak background represents the desolation outside the garden

angel is foreshortened

procession the magi

palazzo medici

fresco 

benozzo gozzoli

Battle of san Romano

Paolo Uccello

tempera on wood

depicts battle between florence and lucca

niccolo da tolentino in center on white horse

strong use of orthogonals in figures of men lying on the ground

more of a ceremonial scene than battle scene

vanishing points

horses look like toys

hercules and Antaus

antonio del pollaiuolo

hercules must defeat by lifting off ground

sinewy and strong figures

strong angularity expressed

active compositions with limbs

antonio del pollaicuolo and piero del pollaicuolo

THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN

Battle of ten naked men

engraving

antonio pollaiuolo

unknown subject matter

dense vegative forms push figures forward

many figures are opposites of theirs

precise accreate anatomy 

Fra Filippo Lippi  - artist

madonna and child with angles

tempera on wood

15th century

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birth of venus

Sandro Botticelli

15th century

a medici commission

landscape flat and unrealistic

unproportonal 

venus shows beauty

roses scattered before her = symbolizing plenty of love

nymphs and handmadiens cloth her

Primavera

(spring)

sandro botticelli

Portrait of a youth

Sandro botticelli

Giovanna Tornabuoni

domenico ghirlandaio

Annunciation from San Marco florence

mandola

fra angelico

brunelleschi like arches

foliated capitals

smoothly modeled figures

humility of figures - gioto like

painted over dormitory entrence 

highly religious

Christ delivering the keys of the kingdom to saint peter

pietro perugino

fresco 15th century

theme treasured by popes

left background : tribute money

Right : stoning of christ

sistine chapel

figures stand in contrapposto (heads are tilted)

one- point perspective

open space makes focus on keys

Room of the newlyweds

andrea mantegna

ducal palace

painted in roomm that was used as bedroom

room is a cube in shape

oculus contains people looking at viewer

foreshortened angels looking 

Dead Christ

Andrea Mantegna

Flagellation of Christ

piero della francesca

brera alterpiece

piero francesca

resurrection

fresco

piero francesca

flat background pale colors

center point : man

christ is huge and holding a labarum

christ stepping out of coffin

location at a city hall

Damned cast into hell

luca signorelli 

fresco at orvieto cathedral

shows end of the world

largest treatment of nudes

tangle of human bodies

color symbolizes evil

heaven gaurded by angles

many people die

dome of florence cathedral

brunelleschi

double dome of two shells

raised on a drum to increase hieght

built without centering devices

surmounted by lantern which anchors the ribs

you can walk between the domes

Santo spirito

brunelleschi

Pazzi chapel

brunelleschi

rectangular chapel

two barrel vaults on interior

inside has terra-cotta tiles

Palazzo medici riccardi

15th century florence

michelozzo

rusticated ground floor- second floor slightly messed up, top smooth

roman arches on bottom

strong cornice on top

built to show power of medici