Masaccio, Holy Trinity, fresco, Sta. Maria Novella, c.1427.

• donors on left side (people who paid for this)
• term: altar
• architectural studies
• classical architecture

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Gentile da Fabriano, Strozzi altarpiece, panel, 1423.

predella is  "Nativity"

made for sacristy
Palla Strozzi intended to be buried
- richest man in Florence(family richest)

-why would he want this? - so a rich banker in Florence could identify w/ this (rich people thing) to show Strozzi's wealth

altarpiece - gold, made for decoration

international Gothic style (frilly decoration)

in detail - sgraffito, gold underneath with paint

-red underneath (bole)

Gentile da Fabriano 

Nativity (predella of Strozzi altarpiece).

1423

one of first scenes to show nocturnal lighting

Domenico Veneziano, St. Lucy altarpiece, panel, c.1445.

predella at bottom "St. John the Baptist in the Desert"

"sacra conversazione" - sacred conversation - saints brought together in painting even though they didn't live at same time

paying attention to  light, perspective

clasicizing language

st. lucy on far right in pink

golden legend - medieval book that contains stories of saints lives

 Domenico Veneziano

St. John the Baptist in the Desert (once part of predella of the st lucy altarpiece).

c.1445

showing graceful nude body

 Fra Angelico, San Marco altarpiece, panel, c. 1438-40.

commisioned by Comiso de' Medici for altar of san marco church, Florence

predella is "SS. Cosmas & Damian help Palladia"

and 

predella is "Martyrdom ofSS. Cosmas & Damian"

"sacra conversion"

turkish rug

has a figure looking at you to engage viewre 

classical architecture

one-point perspective

st damian and cosimus (brothers) in front

martyrs

St. cosimus - used in front cuz a guy name cosimo Medici commissioned it. they both have name cosimo

medici = doctor

the golden legend - cosimo and damian were early christian doctors story of them instide this book (can't be found in bible)

cosimo took money and damian was mad 

cosimo didn't want to be buried w/ damians

fra angelico - angelic fryer - dominican

there was a painting already on the altar that was fairly new, but was replaced by fra angelico's

ephifany - when kings paid homage to christ

medici had a room w/ adoration of the magi - rich people show cuz equates them w/ king that pay devotion to christ

palostrozi - richest man in florence of the time (commisioned "gentile de fabriano"

saint mark chose "san marco"

chose doctor saints cuz medici means doctors

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Fra Angelico

SS. Cosmas & Damian help Palladia (once predella of san marco altarpiece).

c. 1438-40

damian takes money cosimo wont take money from lady they helped

Fra Angelico

Martyrdom ofSS. Cosmas & Damian (predella of san marco altarpiece).

Fra Angelico

Burial of SS. Cosmas & Damian (predella of #6)

speech comes out of came's mouth saying they could be buried together

Fra Angelico

Miracle of Justinian's Leg (predella of #6).

bi-racial transplant

took the leg of a black person and did transplant

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MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

 Michelozzo, library of San Marco, after 1436.

**Fra Angelico (and workshop), frescoes in monastery, 1438-45

cosimo donated manuscripts to library

ionic, capital w/curly volumes

if interested in becoming Dominicans would stay in cell(dormitory)

every cell has a frescoe in a tiny space

frescoes intended to be a religious aid

show one or two dominicans in the scene to show how the trainee show respond to it

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Crucifixion (chapter house)

included some franciscans

st. lawerence - grill

rosary beads w/ prayers on them was an invention of dominicans

in

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Dominic and crucified Christ (cloister)

st dominic shown to show devotion ot christ

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MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Crucifixion (cell 4)

comments about 4 & 25

looks like same cartoon is used

dominic - founder of the order shown w/ a star and lilly

different gestures

in book "painting & exp." tries to create apealling to eye

pose of praying - prayer manuel used by dominicans (fra angelico's time) - ways of praying, diff. ways dominic held his body to pray

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Crucifixion (cell 25)

comments about 4 & 25

looks like same cartoon is used

dominic - founder of the order shown w/ a star and lilly

different gestures

in book "painting & exp." tries to create apealling to eye

pose of praying - prayer manuel used by dominicans (fra angelico's time) - ways of praying, diff. ways dominic held his body to pray

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Nativity (cell 5)

peter matryed axe to head- domincan

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Baptism (cell 24)

john baptises christ

st. dominic maybe (cuz of book)

fra angelico style:

looks like mazolino style if compared to artist

angelic

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Transfiguration (cell 6)

before christ dies

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Noli me tangere( dont touch me)

(cell 1)

jesus walking can't be touched cuz he still has to go to heaven

no dominican

detail

must have been in an important cell

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Annunciation (corridor)

lush garden

in hallway going upstairs

architecture - compare to arch. of church and to annuciation in cell

loga?

angel is less scary

mary gesture - acceptance

figures - soft, delicate, humble, longated, thin, large

form of mary is hard to see compared to angel

beautiful wings and mary face pretty, innocence

fr angelico - figures have quality

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Annunciation (cell 3)

 sparse

less image

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

Coronation of the Virgin (cell 9)

dominicans in prayerful gesture

white pure clothes

MONASTERY OF SAN MARCO, Florence

View of Cosimo de' Medici's cell

extravagent compared to others

two rooms

adoration of magi inside (rich patrons use)

given to assistant of fra angelico benozzo gozzoli

Masolino (& Masaccio), Founding of Sta. Maria Maggiore, panel, c. 1423-5.

one of the major early chrstian churches of rome (old)

colunna lived close to church (patrons of this church)

nicoloas 4th renovated this church 

"cornation of the virgin"

jesus putting a crown on her head 

crown recieved by mary

middle of august, miraculous snow fall year 352 on exact place church i snow forms plan of church they get a dream that hte virgin mary given them a dream of foundation of church

Masaccio, SS. Jerome and John the Baptist, panel, c. 1423-5.

not much detail

darker, harsher

jerome - theorical writing, often shown w/ cardinal hat lion - helped lion, pulled thom out of lion paw

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Masolino, SS. John Evangelist and Martin, panel, c. 1423-5.

detail, softer, columns in clothing, gold

likes to paint blonde hair, delicate features

Masolino, SS. Peter and Paul, panel, c. 1423-5.

looks similar to masachio, but masolino has detail

Masolino, Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1423-5.

might have faced the audience

mandorla - figure has a numerous prescence around her

 Chapel of Nicholas V, Vatican palace (Rome) -- Frescoes of saints stephen and lawerence by fra angelico 1448

pope quarter

satint stephen - 1 of first deacons

scenes(frescoes) of life of stephen and lawrence

 vault in chapel of pope nicholas V

four evangelists

eagle - st john, lion - mark, ox - luke

 Fra Angelico, St. Stephen receives deaconate & distributes alms, fresco, 1448

complex architecture

compared to massachios "giving to alms"

taking arch. to another level

classicizing

fra angelico studied ancient rome building is evident through this

Fra Angelico

St. Stephen preaches & disputes (discuss)in temple.

medieval arch.

crazy perspective

drapery very noticable

deacon was suppose to attend to widows

common for preachers to give sermon to women

can see differences in age

Fra Angelico

St. Stephen stoned.

gruesome

martyed

Fra Angelico

St. Lawrence receiving deaconate from Pope Sixtus.

classical architecture

lots of gold involved

Fra Angelico

St. Lawrence receives and distributes church treasures.

flames on lawrene clothes - burned on grill

extreme classical arch. perspective

Fra Angelico

St. Lawrence judged before prefect and martyred.

ancient roman offical of law

  Fra Filippo Lippi, San Lorenzo Annunciation, panel, c.1440

divides compostion into two

religious moment

angel looking at viewer; engaging

deep perspective

classical architecture

gabriel holding a lily

bitannical reference to mary being the garden

vessel - glass represeting the womb, light can penetrate glass and not destruct it

incarnation - god becomes human in christ

songs of songs?

c

Fra Filippo Lippi

Tarquinia Madonna, panel, 1437.

psalm 18 - scholars relate 

Fra Filippo Lippi

Uffizi Madonna/panel, c.1455.

would have been ordered by a wealthy person's home

compare to "tarquinia madonna"

Fra Filippo Lippi

Tondo of Madonna & Child, panel, c.1452.

tondo- round

made for home decoration and for the birth of a child

baby eating pomegrante - resembles the sacrafice of Christ thats going to come - passion

lots of perspective

ana gives birth to baby Mary being born in the back be Jesus cuz he's always shown born in a manager

parents old

background is story of mary's life

                                     anana & joakim have child mary 

                                       they meet at the golden gate

penvinment - period of time when ladies bring gifts to woman gaving babies

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Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate, panel, c.1484.

tondo

student of lippi

compared to lippi's madonna

longated, angular

dimple on chin, also on lippi's madonna 1452

roses -virgin

lilly's

dreamy

holding books

'Desco de parto' (birth salver) - modest tondo woden painting

made for a woman giving birth or about to give birth

wealthy enough but not super rich

with a confinement scene - woman giving birth

tray covered w/ cloth covered w/ treats for new mother

15th - ceramic bowls used (someone who isn't rich)

maschio means boy

boy peeing - "may god give health to every woman who gives birth and to the child's fath my child be born w/ out fatigue or danger i'm a baby who lives and i make urine of silver gold"

Botticelli,

Madonna of the Magnificat. panel, c.1484.

magnificant - prayer that virgin mayr said when giong to meet her cousin, Elizabeth, celebrates the fact she's blessed among women

'hail mary' - she's writing about it

being crowned the queen of heaven

Boticelli's women are beautiful

  Filippino Lippi, Vision of St. Bernard, panel, c. 1485.

st bernard of clairvaux (1090-1153)

divine comedy 1308-1331(Dante (1308 & 1321)writes about inferno; hell; purgatory; paradise) 

st bernard medieval st. one of great st. of mary devotion, church writer

patron of painting in bottom right corner

great piece of western literature by dante

Dante, Pardiso: Canto XXXII

dante presented to st bernard -> presented to virgin -> presented to god

"thus virgin mother, daugther, of they son, humble & high beyond all other creature, the limit fixed of the eternal counsel, thou art the one who such nobility do not disdain himself its creature"

**youtube video "dante Paradiso xxxii

mystical

Alberti, facade of Sta. Maria Novella, c. 1456-70.

**Frescoes from the chancel of Sta. Maria Novella 

dominican church

francessco sasseti wanted to do this church but st francis is not what they believe

facade completed by alberti (writer, artist, architect, etc)

classical with tuscan marble decoration (ghiberti

ruccelay?

High altar frescoes by ghilandaio

commissioned by giovani tornabuoni

contract dated 1485

botticelli's work seen as "manly" back then in ghirlandaio workshop - michelangelo learned frescoe

giovanni sister married into medici family

powerful figure in rome

wealthy

5years to paint

making drawing had to get approval

wet plaster won't be wet would be frozen

giovanni and wife donors portrait of both at bottom

contract

scenes of mary (one side) scene of john the baptist

Ghirlandaio, Joachim driven from the temple, fresco, 1485-90.

mary's father Joachim being refused at the table cuz has no children and old

His sacrifice (lamb) rejected

young people being accepted in background w/ animals sacrifice

florentin arch

fighres left look modern (portraits)

right look more biblical

Ghirlandaio

Birth of Mary, 1485-90.

compared to lippis version

house modern florentine of a rich person

intarsia

teracota relief of sculpture

specific looking woman (portraits) dressed inexpensive outfits

left pastel looking as more to right side richer in color

thought through what was put together

Ghirlandaio

Birth of the Baptist, 1485-90.

less prominemt than birth of mary

woman look like portraits

Ghirlandaio

Herod's Feast, 1485-90.

really likes women with drapery

john the baptist head in a basket

figures arent as beautiful ones below

arent many portraits cuz up higher.   

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View of the Sassetti chapel, Sta. Trinita, Florence.

Frescoes by ghilandaio commisioned by francesco sassetti

"Portlanari altarpiece" inside here part of triplych

porrtraits of francesco and wife nera cossi

patrons

frans- banker

scenes in church deal with life of francis cuz of patron

Ghirlandaio,

Miracle of the Little Boy, c. 1483-86.

Ghirlandaio,

Altarpiece in the Sassetti chapel, panel, 1485.

Hugo van der Goes, Portinari altarpiece, panel, late 1470s.

commisioned for the church of the hospital of santa mari naova, Florence by the Italian banker Tommaso Portinari, who live for more than 40 yrs in Bruges as a representative

triplych

banker

family showed as donors

Botticelli

Minerva/Camilla and the Centaur, canvas, after 1482.

 Botticelli

Venus and Mars, panel, c.1483.

 Botticelli

Birth of Venus, canvas, c.1484.

 Botticelli

Primavera, panel, c. l482 (?).