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• Buffalino Chapel: Perrugino’s “Santa Maria in Aracooli”, 1485-1487
o Linear/ one point perspective of a transitional space towards outdoors
Janus: god of doorways: new and old year
o Green Blue Gray makes the distances seem believable
o Antique motifs: pilasters holding a triumphal arch, candelabra motif
• 1480’s: the discovery of the Golden House of Nero
• Grotto: grotesqur motif replaces the candelabra
• The site was probably where Temple of Juneau stood
• Floor 14th c., ceiling 16th c., walls 17th c.
• Use of the spoils within the city and thus the reuse of the columns
o Represents the strong affinity to the heritage of Rome.
o Symbolic victory of Christianity over Paganism
• Exudes a Classical vocabulary (Renaissance)
• Central Italian church with no frills: heavy use of brick; masonry is there but the façade as the façade itself: just to hold and protect the building |
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1433-1439, Museo dell'Opera, Florence
• MORE antiquated: vases (amphorae), shells, acanthus leaves, garlands, putti
• More conservative: classical putti
• Strong pension for classical-looking (like the antique sarcophagus) and is fully in-synch with this, thus not Christian contemporary |
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| Luca de la Rovierre “Cantoria" |
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1431-38,Museo dell'Opera, Florence
• Many similar-looking children
• Classical image: colonettes, coffers, brackets, acanthus leaves
• Renaissance and Florentine kids singing beautifully |
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| Donatello, "bronze david" |
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“Bronze David”, 1430-1450, Bargello Museum, FLorence
• Trying to break the code: first free-standing male nude in Renaissance form
• Extreme chiastic stance; showing off knowledge of human anatomy?
• Sculpture in bronze was the ultimate feat in antiquity, thus this material.
• Does not capture athletic male ideal though. Sculpture is rather feminine. |
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1411-1413, Orsanmichele, Florence
• Decorated at the expense of the guild
• Chiastic stance (see below)
• Realistic face, identity, individual characteristics
• Natural drapery to accentuate the body more accurately
• This sculpture has “broken the code” so to speak |
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1411-1413, Orsanmichele, Florence
• Decorated at the expense of the guild
• Chiastic stance (see below)
• Realistic face, identity, individual characteristics
• Natural drapery to accentuate the body more accurately
• This sculpture has “broken the code” so to speak |
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1408, bronze Bargello Museum, Florence
• Donatello as the first great sculptor of Renaissance Italy
• Innocent, idealized face; stylzed fabric folds. |
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. Brunelleschi, Sta. Maria del Fiore
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1420-1434, Florence
• Began as Sta. Reparato
• Belfry “Giotto’s Tower” early 1300’s
• Arnolfo di Cambio designs the large Church
• Tremendous church, how do you cover it? Dome!
o Vasari: no dome of this dimension since Hagia Sofia
o Symbolic feat, which town is most important
o Becomes the symbol of Florence’s hegemony
o Compromise between the classic vault and medieval rib vault
o Built a double shell to lighten the weight
o Octagon with herringbone brick design; self-supporting, wedged, with positive and negative angles.
o The lantern on the top acts as a keystone (function precedes form) 1440
• Façade was finished in the 19th c.
• Brunelleschi fought with Ghiberti for the project
• Ancient symbol: Pantheon, arches of Renaissance/ Gothic |
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1460, Mantua
• Not completed as intended
• “the temple” not “the church”—Alberti’s treatise on painting and architecture
• Elevated temples like in antiquity
• Ideals to emulate cross-barreled vaults; barreled vaults for wide spaces without the obstruction of columns
• Move towards the perfect shape: symmetry and beauty of the central-plan |
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1470, Mantua
• Triumphal arch motif
• Coffered barrel vaults
• Clear construction with side chapels instead of side aisles, done with barrel vaults
• Inspiration in the Basilica of Maxentius |
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| Michelozzo, Palazzo Medici |
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1452, Florence
• More medieval structure
• Rustication on ground floor, moves to smooth on the third; stringcourse
• Courtyard designed with columns and rounded arches (not as Romans did)
o Airy and rhythmical
o No pause at the corners |
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| 1487-1489 in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva |
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