Arts150 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Current Lecture I The Early Italian Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture Current Lecture Last Lecture Recap o Giotto s influence on Installation art contemporary art and Chapel work o Dia Foundation fostered contemporary artists 1970s o Installation art similar to Giotto s work because it often oncorporates panels and the art is one space and one art concept Artists to know for this class period o Lorenzo Ghiberti 1378 1455 o Donatello 1386 1466 o Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 1446 o Nanni di Banco 1380 1421 Renaissance in Florence o Capital of Southern Europe o Medici dynasty patrons of the arts and bankers of Europe Cosimo and his grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent were some of the most prominent Medicis Established the Platonic Academy of Philosophy Patrons of the arts and gifted in many fields Built important architectural monuments and festivals Made Florence the capital of all flourishing art o Savonarola leader of Florence and preached repentance o Michaelangelo son of Medici family o Florence as liberal and refused to conform to strict Catholic rule so became 2 nd to Rome o Pitti Palace by Brunelleschi for merchant Luca Pitti It was then bought by Medici family The Duomo Florence Cathedral o Bell tower or called Campanile designed by Giotto B Zocchi engraving of Florence Cathedral and Baptistery 1754 o Captures ceremony taking place 1401 competition to design the gates of Baptistry won by Ghiberti These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Lorenzo Ghiberti Gates of Paradise East doors of Baptistry Florence 1425 52 gilt bronze 15 Displays 10 scenes of old testament Jacob and Esal Joseph sold into salvery Moses receiving tablet of laws David and Goliath Samuel and Queen of Sheebah Cane and Abel ect Most Renaissance men trained as craftsman ie Ghiberti goldsmith Ghiberti was such a success he was awarded the honor of making another set of doors Relief Sculpture a 2D image whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth setting off the figure Gilding application of paper thin gold leaf to an object as a decorative finishing detail Both incorporated into the Gates of Paradise Ghiberti sculptor goldsmith and painter Andrea Pisano South Doors 1330 36 gilded bronze o Quatrefold frame One shows Christ baptistery disciples Ghiberti produced quatrefold images on his doors too o Jacob and Esal continuous narrative center Esau sells birthright Esua leaves to hunt Venison Rebecca on roof under left arch Rebecca in childhood Rebecca rehearses Jacobs fraud Leon Battista Alberti Della Pittura on Painting 1435 BOOK o 1 point linear perspective conceived as flat plane o Pictoral perspective Ghibherti Strove to Imitate nature with all the perspective wrote this in Commentary 1456 o Inserted his own portrait into Florence monument of public commission
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