-Fountain of Joy

-water is VERY important to Sienese b/c they didn’t have any

-wasn’t until beginning of 15th century that a structure was built

-Contemporary of nanni di banco

-Sienese have bad marble

-statues of Roman goddesses nearly naked, story related to Romulus and Remus

-Sculpting at his maturity even before Donatello

-Influenced by antiquity and classicism

-angel, Adam, Eve

-done around same time as Orsanmichele or Ghiberti doors

-dedicated to the Virgin

-in the shape of a rectangular basin that is adorned on three sides with many bas-reliefs with the Madonna surrounded by the Classical and the Christian Virtues, emblematic of Good Government under the patronage of the Madonna

-Jacopo's Fonte Gaia is still one of the most important sculptures produced in XV century Italy during the transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance styles.

-Della Quercia drew the inspiration for his design of the fountain from the traditional designs of Medieval Senese public fountains. A large, altar-like rectangular basin is surrounded on three sides by a high parapet. The sides are decorated with reliefs of The Creation of Adam and The Flight from the Garden of Eden. Two female figures adorn the front two columns, traditionally believed to represent Rea Silvia and Acca Larentia, in remembrance of Siena’s legendary associations with Rome. The long section of the fountain is adorned at the centre with a Madonna and Child, surrounded by allegories of the Virtues.

-Sala del Consiglio

-where big legislative council met

-right painting (Maesta) in picture is on the left wall of the floor plan

-seems strong because the church was very weak

-battle scenes

Quoting duccio and giving it a civic context

-city and countryside are linked

-cities relied on adjacent countrysides

-rape and pillage

-timor holding placquard-references to road (road very important!), means revenue not coming into siena

-we think civic palaces had these sorts of paintings in them on a regular basis

-quality is very high

-gives window into govt of 14th century, also into what sort of texts they were reading

-vaguely Aristotelian background, or related to late medieval writer who is writing about aristotle

-interest in humanism

-black shield and armor: silver b/c it tarnishes, silver never retouched in any of these frescos

--white & black of division=sienese crest, the balzana

-war shown in vernacular (guerra)

-24 councelors (multiples of 3) down at bottom

-buon commune

-theologic and cardinal virtues (now 9 virtues)

-scale of figure according to their importance

-common good in center (in color of balzana)

-theological virtues @ top

-she wolf and twins at bottom (Sienese proud of Roman past), made up their own, sons of remus, becomes part of identity of the city, everywhere

-men in black at bottom, long hair, supposed to look like nobility/knights, offering up old family tower to the commune

-crowned good guy meant to be seen as linked to the bad guy with horns

-very important, with two different kinds of justice (2 diff kinds-aristotle)

-justice balancing the scales

-two ropes (balzana-black & white and popolo-red)

-conquered and with the rope

-lot of stenciled guilding, incredibly richly decorated figure

-throne is seated on turkish carpet

-Sienese not as popular as Florence with textiles, but still did well

-starting to figure out single point perspective, very close

-Pax: white reclining figure

-Pax:Clearly based on models from antiquity

-Pax: famous

-Pax: like image of venus or aphrodite

-Pax: armor underneath her pillow=peace through battle, peace won very difficultly

-A lot of prominence, too large in comparison to councillors

-govt of 24 was government before the 9, responsible for beginnings of civic monuments

-more pastel colors (probably not lorenzetti)

-new artist put a sienese monument and bell tower, dome

-clear that it is not supposed to be specificànew painter misinterpreted and put something very specific

-Dancing figures: -men have taller stature

-have an allegorical feel to them

-ideal picture of what an ideal city would look like

-propagandistic feel

-painted before black death, but there had been mini-plagues before this

-incredibly foreshortened wall

-porta romana?

-she-wolf at top

-meant to call via francigena

-one of the first landscapes since antiquity

-ideal of sienese countryside

-showing how prosperous city could be

-figure of Security holding out placquard

-know that road leads south

-follow painting leads to window in the actual room overlooking outside

-far reaches of the fresco

-castle and letters

-talamone: city on coast that Sienese bought with the idea that they were gonna make themselves a port city, would be satellite

-not able to control the territory

-sad and desperate dream to be a power like pisa or florence

-water becomes a fixation for Sienese, symbol for greatness

-stage set-like façade

-new cathedral section on right

-imported people from Pisa to come and work

-craning neck around corner to share the good word that jesus has come

-talking

-proportions are off, when seen on cathedral it makes sense

-Giovanni precursor to donatello

-really understood the whole optical allusion

-holding scroll with scripture

-duccio or cimabue?

-duccio would have done design for it

-stained glass fairly unsual to be in Italy at the time

-horror vaccui

-floor divided into hexagons, inlayed stone

-importance of storytelling/narrative

-near rood screen

-important place for sermon/gospel/parts of liturgy (liturgy of word & of eucharist)

-beginnings of narratives

-always one panel open to get in and out of pulpit

-because only 5 panels to put story on, stories get combined 

other scene: -crucifixion 

-hospital part of reason why Siena became so popular

-hospital was stopping place for travelers going to Rome

-put together from many different eras

-first basically run out of the church, before Siena was a free commune

-then pulls apart from the church and forms its own opera

-church run by hospital religious/cathedral religious/commune

-ospedale really richàbecomes really rich after the plague, people survive, they stay at Siena, give money to hospital, sometimes in form of money sometimes in form of land

-receives land to the south (good for grain)

-older section: arche sinese

-newer sections: more modern designs for windows

-hospital owned a lot of the territory that became the breadbasket for the city

-southernmost gate leading off into road to Rome

-Ante-port: in front of gate, helped with garrisons, keeping everything safe

-quite lavishly decorated with frescoes, paintings