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Works of Art and Artists
Filippo Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panels for the east doors of the Florence Baptistery,
1401-2.
Exterior of Florence Cathedral.
Filippo Brunelleschi, interior of Santo Spirito, Florence, facing east. Begun 1445.
Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ, c. 1500.
Leonardo da Vinci, perspective study for the Adoration of the Magi, c. 1481.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Meeting of Solomon and Sheba, east door of the Baptistery (single panel of fig 14.20),
Florence Cathedral.
Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Gates of Paradise, east door, Florence Baptistery, 1424-52.
Masaccio, The Holy Trinity, 1425.
View of the Branacci Chapel (before restoration), looking towards the altar. Santa Maria del Carmine,
Florence.
Left Side of the Branacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence (after restoration, 1989).
The Medici Venus, 1st century A.D.
Gentile da Fabriano, The Procession and Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece, 1423.
Donatello, David, c. 1430-40.
Leon Battista Alberti, Rucellai Palace, Florence, c. 1450s.
Andrea del Castagno, The Youthful David, c. 1450.
Andrea del Verrocchio, David, early 1470s.
Paolo Uccello, Sir John Hawkwood, Florence Cathedral, 1430s.
Donatello, Gattamelata, 1445-50.
Piero della Francesca, Battista Sforza, Duchess of Urbino and Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, after 1475
(after cleaning).
Piero della Francesca, Annunciation, c. 1450.
Fra Angelico, Annunciation, c. 1440.
Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with scenes from The Life of Saint Anne, Pitti Palace.
Filippo Lippi, Drawing Study for Madonna and Child with scenes from The Life of Saint Anne, Pitti Palace.
Andrea Mantegna, Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua, 1474.
Andrea Mantegna, ceiling tondo of the Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua, 1474.
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1482.
Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), Mérode Altarpiece (open), c. 1425-30.
Detail of Christ entering the sacred space of the Annunciation from Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle),
Mérode Altarpiece (open), c. 1425-30.
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (open), completed 1432.
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (closed).
Jan van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban (Self-portrait ?), 1433.
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434.
Detail of mirror from Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434.
Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross, c. 1435-38.
Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, c. 1435-40.
Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece (open), c. 1476.
Domenico del Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1485.
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Glossary Terms
aerial (or atmospheric) perspective
bistre
centering
chiaroscuro
grisaille
linear (or scientific) perspective
orthogonals
polyptych
putto, putti
quatrefoil
vanishing point
World Wide Web
http://jcccnet.johnco.cc.ks.us/~jjackson/flor.html - The Baptistery of Florence - the story of the Gates of
Paradise, no images available.
http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/renaiss.htm - Art and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance,
images along with a few links to other Renaissance internet resources. (many more images, Vasari’s “Lives of
the Artists”, and “What is Humanism?”)
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html National Gallery of Art tour – The Early
Renaissance in Florence
http://www.televisual.net/uffizi/room_7.html - Early Renaissance Room at the Uffizi
http://www.tigtail.org/TVM/X1/early.html - Tigertail Virtual Museum - Gallery of the Early Italian
Renaissance 1401-1490.
http://www.colmusart.org/html/s03collection02.htm - Columbia Museum of Art – Early Renaissance
Collection
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html - An Exploration of the Renaissance, and the forces
that drove the rebirth (includes a “Focus on Florence”)
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html - Art History Resources on the Web – Renaissance Art (World
Wide Web)
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/italren/renbib.html - Art and Architecture of the Italian Renaissance – Guide to
reading (a bibliography, no text, just references)
http://www.hermus.com/flor.htm - Florentine/Early Renaissance, text.
http://www.hermus.com/northern.htm - Early Northern Renaissance, text comparing Northern with Italian
Early Renaissance
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/renaissance_links.html - Renaissance Art links (General,
Italian artists and Northern artists)
http://www.providence.edu/dwc/Renart.htm - Renaissance Art, many links with paragraph descriptions for
each
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/ - Investigating the Renaissance – Examining material
aspects of 3 early Netherlandish paintings using digital imaging techniques.
http://users.pandora.be/bernard/Artpics/Bruges.htm - Bruges and the “Flemish Prmitives” long article
regarding artists of the fifteenth century southern Netherlands, images unavailable
http://www.televisual.net/uffizi/flemish.html - Flemish Art, text with links for many individual artists
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http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new3/charlotte/byartist/display00301.html - ArtServe Image Basket - Many details
of the Ghent Altarpiece, other paintings by van Eyck.
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