Chapter 8 part 2 - DeVitoSchoolofArt

Chapter 8 part 2

France

LIMBOURG BROTHERS, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Fig. 8-9.

France Example: • Book of Hours for private patron • Illusionistic treatment of space • Luxury item • Scenes of daily life, identifiable settings • Painting by secular artists, not monks

LIMBOURG BROTHERS, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Fig. 89.

Holy Roman Empire

MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Fig. 8-12.

Holy Roman Empire Example: • Print, engraving • Cross-hatches for shading • Surface description of textures • Printing responds to rise in literacy and improved economy

MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Fig. 8-12.

Italy Dates and Places: • 1400-1500 • Independent courts on the Italian peninsula People: • Humanism • Revival of classical learning • Self-aggrandizing patrons LORENZO GHIBERTI, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401–1402. Fig. 8-14.

Italy Themes: • Life of Christ and the Virgin Mary • Secular life • Classical themes Forms: • Linear perspective • Classical forms • Optical naturalism • Window onto the world

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA, Flagellation of Christ, ca. 1455– 1465. Fig. 8-35.

Italy

LORENZO GHIBERTI, Gates of Paradise, 1425–1452. Fig. 815.

Italy Example: • Civic commission • Bronze doors of baptistery • Linear perspective • Aerial perspective • Classical models • Story-telling narrative clarity LORENZO GHIBERTI, Gates of Paradise, 1425–1452. Fig. 8-15.

Italy

DONATELLO, David, ca. 1440– 1460. Fig. 8-19.

Italy Example: • First nude sculpture since antiquity • Bronze cast sculpture • Civic symbol of Florence • Private patron (Medici) • Sensuous contrapposto for calm hero DONATELLO, David, ca. 1440–1460. Fig. 8-19.

Italy

DONATELLO, Gattamelata, ca. 1445– 1453. Fig. 8-20.

Italy Example: • Public monument • Bronze equestrian portrait • Modeled after Marcus Aurelius • Contemporary condottiere dressed as Roman general • Image of strength and power

DONATELLO, Gattamelata, ca. 1445–1453. Fig. 8-20.

Italy

MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, ca. 1424–1427. Fig. 8-23.

Italy Example: • Fresco in church, donor portraits • Applies linear perspective based on location of viewer’s eye • Illusionistic extension of viewer’s space • Classical architectural vocabulary

MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, ca. 1424–1427. Fig. 8-23.