The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy
Early Italian Renaissance
- Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402
- Donatello, David, c. 1440-1460
- Masaccio, Holy Trinity (from Santa Maria Novella), c. 1424-1427
- Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin, c. 1485-1490
- Uccello, Battle of San Romano, c. 1435 or c. 1455
- Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482
- Perugino, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, 1481-1483
- Mantegna, Foreshortened Christ (Lamentation over the Dead Christ), c. 1500
Short Answer
- Renaissance Florence saw itself as the inheritor of which ancient civilization?
- Which biblical personage did Renaissance Florence associate itself with? Which mythological figure did it associate itself with?
- Why is the Medici family important to the development of the Renaissance?
- Explain what perspective is and name the two kinds of perspective discussed in class.
- What is contrapposto? Give an example of a Quattrocento sculpture that exhibits the use of contrapposto.
- Which classical tradition did Donatello revive in his portrait of ‘Gattamelata’?
- How does Uccello demonstrate clear linear perspective in his seemingly chaotic Battle of San Romano?
- In what way did Alberti differentiate the three stories of the Palazzo Rucellai that makes each story look progressively lighter? Which classical building served as his inspiration for this?
- Who was Girolamo Savonarola? What were his beliefs regarding the Medici and humanism and what effect did his beliefs have on Florence in the 1490s?
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