Early Italian Renaissance
Quattrocento
1400s
Linear Perspective Arrives!
Quattrocento
ARCHITECTURE
Filippo Brunelleschi
Dome of Florence Cathedral
(AKA Brunelleschi’s Dome)
1417–36;
Filippo Brunelleschi
Foundling Hospital, Florence
Designed 1419; built 1421-44
Andrea della Robbia
Detail of Terra-Cotta
Medallion
Filippo Brunelleschi
Pazzi Chapel
1442-65
Florence, Italy
Filippo Brunelleschi; continued by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
Nave, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, : c. 1421–28, 1442–70
Church of San Lorenzo, Florence.
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo,
Façade, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi,
Florence
1446
•Rusticated first level
Leon Battista Alberti
Palazzo Rucellai, Florence.
1455–58; never finished
•Stringcourse
•Pilasters
•Beveled stones
Leon Battista Alberti
Church of Sant’Andrea, Mantua
Designed 1470, begun 1472
•1st use of triumphal arch since
Ancient Rome
Leon Battista Alberti
Nave, Church of Sant’Andrea,
Mantua
Vault width 60’
Designed 1470
Contarini Palace
1421–37
•Guess where?
Quattrocento
SCULPTURE
Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1403, bronze
Left: Brunelleschi
Right: Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gates of Paradise (East Doors), Baptistry
of San Giovanni, Florence
Gilt bronze
height 15' (4.57 m)
1425–52
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Jacob and Esau , panel of
the Gates of Paradise
(East Doors), Baptistry of
San Giovanni, Florence
Gilt bronze
1425–52
Sgraffito decoration
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Nanni di Banco
The Four Crowned Martyrs
Marble
height of figures 6’
c. 1409–17
Orsanmichele, Florence (photographed before
removal of figures to museum)
Donatello
Equestrian Monument of Erasmo
Da Narni (Gattamelata)
Bronze
height approx. 12'2”
1443–53
Piazza del Santo, Padua
Donatello
David, bronze
1420s-60s
Florence
•Meant for a Medici
palace, not for public
viewing
Donatello
Mary Magdalen
Polychromy and gold on wood
height 6'1"
1450s(?)
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
Andrea del Verrocchio.
(Bronze cast by Alessandro
Leopardi)
Equestrian Monument of
Bartolommeo Colleoni
Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo,
Venice
Bronze
height approx. 13'
Clay model 1486–88; cast after
1490; placed 1496
Antonio del Pollaiuolo
Hercules and Antaeus
Bronze
height with base 18”
c. 1475
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Quattrocento
PAINTING & PRINT
Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi (detail), tempura on panel, 1423
Int’l Gothic Style
Masaccio
Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist,
and Donors
Fresco
21' X 10"5”
c. 1425–27/28
Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Masaccio
The Expulsion From Paradise
Fresco
7' X 2' 11”
c. 1427
Brancacci Chapel
Masaccio, The Tribute Money, Fresco
8'1" X 19'7”
c. 1427, Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano,
Tempera on wood panel
6' X 10" 7”
1438–40 Commissioned for private Florentine Residence
Fra Angelico, Annunciation, Fresco, 7’½" X 19'6”, c. 1438–45, Monastery of San Marco, Florence
Andrea del Castagno
The Last Supper
Fresco
16' x 32’, 1447, Refectory, Convent of Sant’Apollonia, Florence
Piero della Francesca
Recognition and Proving of the True Cross
Fresco, 11'8" X 24'6”
San Francesco, Arezzo
Piero della Francesca
Resurrection
fresco
c.1463
Palazzo Comunale, San
Sepulcro, Italy
Piero della Francesca, Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro, Oil on wood pane,l
each 18 ½ X 13”, c. 1474, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Andrea Mantegna
Room of the Newlyweds
Frescoes
Diameter of false oculus 8'9” room
62' 6" square
1465–74
Ducal Palace, Mantua
Perugino, The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter, Fresco
11'5½" X 18' 8½”, 1481
On the right wall of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome
Linear
perspective
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, Tempera and gold on canvas
5'8⅞" X 9' 1⅞"
c. 1484–86, Uffizi, Florence
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, Tempera on wood panel
6’8” x 10’4”
c. 1482 , Uffizi, Florence
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin, fresco, 1485,
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, Sassetti Chapel Panel,
Altarpiece, Santa Trinità, Florence
1485
Gentile Bellini
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints
Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic,
Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse
(Computer reconstruction)
15'4" X 8'4”
c. 1478
Commissioned for the Chapel of the
Hospital of San Giobbe, Venice
Gentile Bellini, Saint Francis In Ecstasy
Oil and tempera on wood panel
49 x 55⅞"
c. 1470’s
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of 10 Naked Men, Engraving, 15 ⅛ X 23¼“, c. 1465–70