15-1 Jan Van Eyck, portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini & his bride (Arnolfini wedding portrait)  (1434)

* 2x1 ft.

* oil painting on wood

* wife next to bed = fertility

* arnolfini next to window = provider

* depicts gender roles

* dog = fidelity, oranges = garden of eden, single candle = eye of god

* mirror reflects entire image.

* legal document

15-22 Martin Schongaeur, St. Anthony Tempted by demons (ca.1480-90)

* Temptation of st.anthony

* wood-print

* german artist son of blacksmith

* grate shading

* fantastical/ graphic

15-8 Rogier Van der Weyden, Deposition,

Leuwen, Belgium (c.1435)

* commissioned by cross-mans bow guild for church

* huge altarpiece

* moment preceeding lamentation was popular

* intense drama heightened by figures all heavily foregrounded

* golden leaf = gilded color

* cross-bows in corner

* drapery

* skull = memento mori/ fleeting life

16-10 Lorenzo Ghiberti, east doors, (gates of paradise) Baptistery, Florence , ( 1425-52)

16-11 Lorenzo Ghiberti, Isaac and His sons, detail of east doors of Florence Baptistery (1425-52)

* on gates of paradise

* heavy classical inspiration

* Isaac blessing Jacob

*composition = orderly

* Space suggested by orthagonals, haze and detail

16-15 Donatello, Gatamelata (equestrian statue of erasmo de narni) Piazza del santo, Padua (ca. 1445-1450)

* condotierre

* horse= military prowess

* Rep. of Venice commissioned it

* inspired by alberti's marcus areilius

* borrows ffrom imperial past

* takes influence from 1st ceasar

16-17 Gentile Da Fabriano, Adoration of Magi, Florence, Italy (1423)

* altarpiece

* international gothic style

* appealed to various port rich peeps

16-18 Massacio, Tribute Money, Brancacci chapel, Florence,Italy

* st.peters life fresco

* tax paid by fish "metaphor"

* about the onset of income tax

* bulk, muscle under clothes

* very natural representation

* intense shading to depict light and add space

* continous narration = many stories in one image

* atmospheric perspective

* Orthagonals all converge on head of christ

16-28 Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus (ca. 1482)

* Tempera on canvas

* 5x9 ft

* 2 natures (celestial v. heavenly)

* represents heavenly love and spiritual love

* humanist ambition

* reminds us of virgin

* neoplatonism - perfection is beautiful

* metaphysical ideas

16-44 Leon Baptista Alberti Facade of Saint Andrea, Mantua, designed (1470-1472)

* Vitruvius on Architecture ca. 25 BCE

* composite of triumphant arch adaptation of it

* interior has no side aisles and greek temples