In Pursuit of Perfection: The Progress of the Italian Renaissance Slide Lists

29 April 2009

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Sculpture

            Madonna of the Stairs, c. 1489-92 (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)

Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs, c. 1492 (Casa Buonarroti, Florence)

Bacchus, 1496-97 (Bargello Museum, Florence)

            Pietà, c. 1499-1500.  St. Peter’s, Rome.

            David, 1501-4.  (Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia)

            Tomb for Pope Julius II

                        Moses, c. 1513-15. San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.

                        “Dying” and “Captive” Slaves, 1505-6, 1513-16. (Paris, Louvre)

                        Unfinished Slaves, c. 1525. (Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia)

Tombs of Giuliano de’Medici and Lorenzo de’Medici, 1519-34. Medici Chapel,

San Lorenzo, Florence

            Pietà, c. 1547-55 (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence)

Painting

            Doni Tondo, c. 1503 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

            Battle of Cascina, 1504-6 (formerly in the Palazzo Signoria, Florence)

            Sistine Ceiling, 1508-12.  Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.

            The Last Judgment, 1534-41. Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.

Architecture

            San Lorenzo, Florence

Façade, begun 1517

Medici Chapel (New Sacristy), 1519-34

Terms:

foreshortening

figura serpentinata

sibyl

ignudi

terribilità

cangianti

23 April 2009

Giorgione (c. 1475-1510)

The Tempest, 1505-10 (Accademia, Venice)

Pastoral Concert, c. 1510 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Sleeping Venus, c 1510 (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, 1489/90-1576)

Portrait of a Bearded Man, c. 1512 (National Gallery, London)

Sacred and Profane Love, 1514 (Borghese Gallery, Rome)

Assumption of the Virgin, 1516-18. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

Madonna of the Pesaro Family, 1519-26. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

Bacchanal of the Andrians, c. 1522-23 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Bacchus and Ariadne, 1522-23 (National Gallery, London)

Venus of Urbino, 1538 (Uffizi, Florence)

Equestrian Portrait of Emperor Charles V, 1548 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Danaë, 1554 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Portrait of Jacopo Strada, 1567-68 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Flaying of Marsyas, 1570s (Kromeriz, Archepiscopal Palace)

Pietà, c.1576 (Accademia, Venice)

Terms:

disegno vs. colorito

terra firma

caprice

impasto

Ariosto

Alfonso d’Este

Camerino d’Alabastro

21 April 2009

Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625)

Child Bitten By a Crawfish, c. 1550 (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples)

The Chess Players, 1555 (Muzeum Nardowe, Poznan)

Self-Portrait Painting a Madonna and Child, 1556 (Muzeum Zamek w Lancucie, Lancut)

Portrait of the Artist’s Father, Brother, and Sister, c. 1559 (Nivaagards Malerisammling, Niva)

Bernardino Campi Painting the Artist’s Portrait, late 1550s (Pinacoteca, Siena)

Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, c. 1561 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)

Philip II of Spain, c. 1565-70 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Queen Anne of Austria, c.1573 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Luca Signorelli (c. 1441-1523)

Flagellation of Christ, c. 1480 (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

The Testament of Moses, 1481-82. Sistine Chapel, The Vatican

Orvieto Cathedral, San Brizio Chapel, 1499-1504

            Resurrection of the Flesh

            Crowning of the Elect

            Condemnation of the Damned

            Deeds of the Anti-Christ

Terms:

Cremona

quotidian

genre

dal naturale (from life)

9 April 2009

Donato Bramante (1444-1514)

Santa Maria delle Grazie, choir and apse, begun 1492. Milan

Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, 1502-1511. Rome

Plan for St. Peter’s, c. 1505.

Belvedere Courtyard, Vatican, begun 1505

Raphael (1483-1520)

Madonna of the Meadows, c. 1505-06. (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)

Angelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi Doni, c. 1506 (Pitti Palace, Florence)

Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, 1509-11

            Disputa (Theology)

School of Athens (Philosopy)

Parnassus (Poetry)

Sistine Madonna, 1513 (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

Donna Velata, c. 1513 (Pitti Palace, Florence)

Baldassare Castiglione, c. 1515 (Paris, Louvre)

Transfiguration of Christ, c. 1516-20 (Pinacoteca, Vatican)

Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals, c. 1518 (Florence, Uffizi)

With assistants, Loggia of Psyche, Villa Farnesina, Rome

            Galatea, 1513

            Psyche Received on Olympus, 1518-19

Terms:

radial architecture

Julius II

centralized plan

peristyle

basilica

nobil donna

Agostino Chigi

2 April 2009

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Annunciation, 1472-75 (Uffizi, Florence)

Landscape with View of Arno River, 1473 (Uffizi, Florence)

Drapery Study, 1470s (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

With Andrea del Verrocchio, The Baptism of Christ, 1476 (Uffizi, Florence)

Madonna of the Carnation, 1473-78 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Adoration of the Magi, begun 1481 (Uffizi, Florence)

Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1483-86. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Study for Sforza Equestrian Monument, c. 1485 (Windsor Castle, London)

Vitruvian Man, c. 1490 (Windsor Castle, London)

Lady with an Ermine, c.1490 (Czartorysky Museum, Cracow)

Last Supper, c. 1495-98, S. Maria della Grazie, Milan

Mona Lisa, c. 1503-5. (Musée du Louvre, Paris,)

Battle of Anghiari, 1503-6 (formerly Palazzo Vecchio, Flornce)

Star of Bethlehem, 1505-8 (London, Windsor Castle)

Leda and the Swan, copy after Leonardo original, c.1515

Studies of Cats and Dragons, c. 1513 (London, Windsor Castle)

Deluge, c. 1514-19 (London, Windsor Castle)

Anatomical Drawings

Terms:

aerial perspective

chiaroscuro

sfumato

Sforza

motions of the mind

fantasia

26 March 2009

Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, called Lo Scheggia (1406-1486), Birth Tray with The Triumph of Fame and Medici and Tornabuoni Arms and Devices, c. 1448 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Masaccio, Birth Tray depicting the Birth of a Florentine Citizen, c. 1420 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

Anonymous, Birth Tray with the Triumph of Venus, c. 1400 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Giovanni di Paolo, Marriage Casket with Triumph of Venus, 1421 (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Filippo Lippi, Portrait of a Woman with Man at a Window, c.1440 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Paolo Uccello, Portrait of a Woman, 1430s (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso, Cassone with The Conquest of Trebizond, 1460s (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Alessandro Baldovinetti, Portrait of a Lady in Yellow, c. 1465 (National Gallery, London)

Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Woman, c. 1470 (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, c. 1488 (Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid)

Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Ginevra de’Benci, c. 1474 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Piero di Cosimo, Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1480 (Musée Conde, Chantilly)

Giorgione, Laura, 1506 (Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna)

Terms:

desco da parto

cassone

24 March 2009

Gentile Bellini (1429-1507)

Procession of the Relic of the True Cross, 1496 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice)

Portrait of Sultan Mahomet II the Conqueror, 1480 (National Gallery, London)

Finished by Giovanni Bellini, St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria, 1504-c.1507 (Brera Gallery, Milan)

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516)

Madonna and Child, c. 1455 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Pietà, c. 1468-71 (Brera Gallery, Milan)

Madonna and Child, 1470s (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

St. Francis in the Desert (St. Francis in Ecstasy), 1470s (Frick Collection, New York)

The Feast of the Gods, 1514/1529 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-79)

St. Jerome in his Study, 1470s (National Gallery, London)

Christ Crowned with Thorns c. 1465 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Portrait of a Man, c. 1465 (National Gallery, London) 

Terms:

scuola/scuole

confraternity

cartolino

Priapus and Lotis

10 March 2009

Piero della Francesca (c. 1415-92)

            Baptism of Christ, late 1440s-50s (National Gallery, London)

            Resurrection, c. 1458 (Museo Civico, Sansepolcro)

            Madonna and Child with Saints, mid-1470s (Brera Gallery, Milan)

            Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro, c. 1474 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Luciano Laurana, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, mid-1460s

Giuliano da Maiano, Studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, 1470s. Palazzo Ducale, Urbino

Terms:

Borgo Sansepolcro

di sotto in sù

Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528)

intarsia

trompe l'oeil

Neo-Platonism

Marsilio Ficino

grotteschi

19 February 2009

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72)

Self-Portrait Medal, c. 1435 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1452-58. Florence

Santa Maria Novella, c. 1456-70. Florence

Paolo Uccello (c. 1397-1475)

Perspective Study, c. 1430-40 (Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe, Florence)

Monument to Sir John Hawkwood, 1436. Florence Cathedral.

Deluge, c. 1445-55. Chiostro Verde, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Battle of San Romano, c. 1435-60 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; National Gallery, London; Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Domenico Veneziano (c. 1410-61)

St. Lucy Altarpiece, c. 1445-47

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Zenobius, and Lucy (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

St. John the Baptist in the Desert (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Andrea del Castagno (1417/19-57)

Last Supper, 1447, Sant’Apollonia, Florence.

Famous Men and Women, 1448 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

            Pippo Sano

            Cumaean Sibyl

            Dante Aligheri

David, c. 1451 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Monument to Niccolò da Tolentino, 1455-56. Florence Cathedral

Terms:

virtus

Vitruvius

bifora

volute

terra verde

mazzocchio

clausura

spalliera

grisaille

12 Feburary 2009

Masaccio (Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Simone Guidi, 1401-1428)

Pisa Altarpiece, 1426

Madonna and Child with Angels (National Gallery, London)

Crucifixion (Museo nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)

Trinity, c. 1426-7, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

With Masolino (Tommaso di Cristofano di Fino; 1383-c. 1440)

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, c. 1424-27

      Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

      The Tribute Money

      Baptism of the Neophytes

      St. Peter Healing with his Shadow

      Healing of the Cripple and The Raising of Tabitha

Fra Angelico (late 1390s-1455)

Annunciation and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, c. 1432-34. (Museo Diocesano, Cortona)

Descent from the Cross, c. 1434 (Museo di San Marco, Florence)

San Marco Altarpiece, c. 1438-40 (Museo di San Marco, Florence)

Frescoes at San Marco Monastery, Florence 1438-1445

Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406-69)

Tarquinia Madonna, 1437 (Palazzo Barberini, Rome)

Annunciation, c. 1440, San Lorenzo, Florence

Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin and the Meeting of Joachim and Anna, 1452 (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)

Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1450s (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

Madonna and Child with Two Angels, c. 1455-65 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Terms:

momento mori

atmospheric perspective

sacra conversazione

strigillated

tondo

venus pudica

guild

contrapposto

rilievo schiacciato

pietra serena

continuous narrative

orthogonals

vanishing point