Lecture 2: Early 15th Century Italy
Slide List
Announcements:
1. Sections begin Monday; open sections
2. WATU
Introduction
- Why do maps of Europe and Italy begin in Italy? in 1400?
- Circle of Piero della Francesca. An
Ideal Town. c.1450. Panel painting.
- Amiens Cathedral
- Masaccio. The Tribute Money.
Fresco. c.1427. Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
- Giotto. Pieta.
1300. Arena Chapel, Padua.
- Donatello. St. George.
c.1415-17. Marble. Orsanmichele, Florence.
- Jamb Figures. West Portal,
Chartres Cathedral. c.1145-70.
Architecture
Symbolizes our beliefs about the ideal structure of the world.
- Filippo Brunelleschi.
- Pazzi Chapel. S Croce,
Florence. Begun 1440. {place of worship}
- Architectural Vocabulary
- View from the Cloister
- Contrast Amiens, exterior and interior.
- Sectional Diagram
- Interior view
- Interior: Dome
- Plan
- Michelozzo.
- Leon Battista Alberti.
- Santa Maria Novella.
Florence. 1456-70.
- Exterior from East
- Main Portal
- Scroll joining first and second stories
- Facade Diagrams
- Sant Andrea. Mantua. 1472. Facade and Interior.
Painting
- Masaccio.
- The Holy Trinity.
Fresco. S Maria Novella, Florence. 1425.
- What is a fresco? What is its purpose? Who/what is the Trinity?
{devotion, instruction, & community}
- Details: Virgin, St. John
- S Maria Novella: Plan and Facade
- Linear perspective & basic vocabulary
- 3-D Reconstruction
- The Expulsion from Eden.
Brancacci Chapel, Florence. {conservation}
1427.
- Capitoline Venus. Imperial Roman Copy. Marble.
- The Tribute Money .1427.
{continuous narration, linear perspective}
- Brancacci Chapel in S. Maria Carmine.
- Compare: Giotto
Architecture and Sculpture
Next Lecture: Donatello's "St. George", "Mary Magdalen"