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Title: Saint Mark

Artist: Donatello

Date: 1411-1413

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: 7 ft. tall

Significance:

• comissioned by linen worker's guild
• realistic drapery
• propotions adjusted for viewing
  

Title: Saint George

Artist: Donatello

Date: 1415-1416

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: 6'5" ft. tall

Location: Church of Orsonmichele

Significance:

• comissioned by armor makers guild
• depicts St. George, a Catholic saint known for slaying a dragon that plagued a Libyan town to rescue a princess (who was going to be sacrificed to appease the dragon) and converting said town to Christianity
•  knows fear yet can marshal strength to overcome it, model for Florentine youth

Title: David

Artist: Donatello

Date: 1430-1440

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: 5'2"

Significance:

• first free standing nude since antiquity
• Had moralistic content even though it was nude.
• The statue is a soft, unheroic, and unclassical youth sculpture

Title: Penitent Magdalene

Artist: Donatello

Date: 1454-55

Medium: Polychromed and gilded wood

Significance:

• realistic style 

• air of spiritual desolation that radiates from ravaged features

  Content: Mary only clothed with her matted hair. “O body, mass of corruption, what have I to do with thee. - hair is gilded with gold

• Seems to be a negation of the Renaissance faith in nobility of man and beauty of the human body.

Title: Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata

Artist: Donatello

Date: Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata

Medium: Bronze, lost wax method

Significance:

• depicts Erasmo de Narni who served under Repub of Venice

• Inspiration for equestrian statues to follow

• Represents individualism and humanism

Title: Pulpit in Pisa Baptistry

Artist: Nicolo Pisano

Date: 1259

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• Used for baptisms

• Combined classical style with Christian tradition

• Proto renaissance

• Nativity and Adoration, Presentation at the Temple, Crucifixtion,

Title: Pulpit in Church of Sant' Andrea, in Pistoia

Artist: Giovanni Pisano

Date: 1301

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• more three dimensional

• Massacre of Innocents, Crucifixtion, Sybill and angel, Eagle of Saint John

Title: Sacrifice of Isaac

Artist: Fillipo Brunschelli

Date: 1401-1402

Medium: Gilded Bronze

Significance:

• Created for Arte de Calmina to see who could design the doors of the Baptistry in Florence 

• more dramatic and dynamic

• Abraham- old, powerful

• Isaac- young, frail

Title: Sacrifice of Isaac

Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti

Date: 1401-1402

Medium: Gilded Bronze

Significance:

• Created for Arte de Calmina to see who could design the doors of the Baptistry in Florence 

• more elegant and graceful

• classical influence

• Abraham is smaller, more graceful

Title: Medici Palace

Artist: Michellozzo

Date: 1444

Medium: Bricks and Blocks

Significance:

• created for Cosimo Medici and powerful Medici family

• Fortress-like exterior, lofty interior

Title: Ruccelai Palace

Artist: Leonbatista Alberti

Date: 1445-56

Medium: Bricks and Blocks

Significance:

• commentary on Medici palace- similar but more Renassiance esque 

• Rejects rustification of Medici ground floor

• Columns and proportions 

Title: Ruccelai Palace

Artist: Leonbatista Alberti

Date: 1445-56

Medium: Bricks and Blocks

Significance:

• commentary on Medici palace- similar but more Renassiance esque 

• Rejects rustification of Medici ground floor

• Columns and proportions 

Title: Malatesta Temple

Artist: Leonbatista Alberti

Date: 1450

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• mauseleum for Malatesta and Isota degli Atti

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Title: Sant' Andrea Church

Artist: Leonbatista Alberti

Date: 1450

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• classical influence

• cross shaped

• patron was Ludovico Gonzaga 

Title: Four Crowned Martyrs

Artist: Nanni di Banco

Date: 1413

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• another niche at Orsonmichele

• guild: stone and wood workers

• draw comparison between martyrs and Florentine to reinforce their resolve 

• depicts Christian sculptors martyred for refusing to build a statue of the god Aeschalepus 

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Title: Creation of Adam and Expulsion from Paradise

Artist: Jacopo della Quercia

Date: 1425-38

Medium: Marble

Significance:

• door to church of san petrino
• influence of classical art 

Creation of Adam and Expulsion from Paradise

Artist: Jacopo della Quercia