The Quattrocento

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The Quattrocento

• Four easy points to remember about the Florentine
  Renaissance
• 1. Greek design
• 2. Roman engineering
• 3. Perspective
• 4. Use of modelling to study the human form

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Hospital of The Innocents, by Brunelleschi
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The Pazzi Chapel
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The Pantheon
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Piero della Francesca
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Uccello
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Masaccio
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Polliauolo
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Giotto A fourteenth century master
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The remarkable Florentines(one might add other
names)

• Brunellescchi (1377-1446)
• Ghiberti (1378-1455)
• Masaccio (1401-1428)
• Donatello (1386-1466)
• Fra Angelico (?? 1455)

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Brunelleschis dome
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Ghibertis bronze doors
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Donatello Last Supper
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Masaccio The Trinity
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Masaccio Expulsion from Eden
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Masaccio The Tribute Money
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Fra Angelico
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Patronage

• There were numerous patrons, of course. I just
  want to identify two in particular.
• 1. The Medici, especially Lorenzo, known as The
  Magnifico
• 2. Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino

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Lorenzo de Medici
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Lorenzo by Donatello
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Botticelli
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The Medici Venus
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The Duke of Urbino
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Urbino
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Federigos Palace,Urbino
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The studiolo, Urbino
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Mantegna very influential in spreading
Florentine ideas further north
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The later fourteenth century

• Lorenzos Academy emphasised Neo-Platonism, and
  added an element of mysticism to Classical
  rationalism
• Leonardo and Michelangelo led the study of
  anatomy to new heights
• Oil paint was introduced from the Netherlands

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Leonardo took anatomy to a new level
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Michelangelo
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Perspective used to create a false reality
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Putting perspective to use Piero della Francesca
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Real or Ideal?
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Can man be forced to fit geometry?
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Piero The artist as mathematician
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Fra Angelico The artist as preacher
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Botticelli The artist as dancer