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Cards In This Set
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What was Leon Battista Albeti known as?Why?
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The theorist of Southern renaissance; books written: "On Painting" "on sculpture" "on architecture"
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral
1417-1436, lantern completed 1471, architecture |
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- won ability to design the dome form competition- did a whole range of things that showed he had more curiosity than just for artfascinated with laws of perspective"re-inventor of perspective"
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Whose patronage provided the necessary means for the renaissance to flourish in Italy?
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The Medici family
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Church of San Lorenzo
1421-1428, 1442-1446, architecture |
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- Brunelleschi used classical aniquity- ex: coffering of roof is temple-like- use of columns"Quotes classical antiuity by using their forms"- Medici's liked this look
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Foundling Hospital, Florence
designed 1419, built 1421-1444 |
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- funded by Medici's to represent their charitable notions- another gesture of their pioty; also to show the community that they are giving back, not only to people in their class, but to others [orphans]
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guild
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Controlled mercantile activities; organizations; some guilds more wealthy than others (gold > stonemason guild)
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Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, Palazzo Medici-Ricardi, Florence
1444, architecture |
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1st floor: the actual guild of silk and gold- outside made to look impenetrable, rough, prison-type
2ndfloor: management side of running the guild- brick on the outside 3rd floor:where family lived- outside walls smoothed and clean; meaning no business up there- stone oranges decorated walls on outside symbolizing their family-center of building was an open core |
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Leon Battista Alberti, Church of Saint Andrea
1470, architecture |
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Similar to the Pantheon- fac*ade= making churches look like ancient Roman temples-Geometry also helped rational thinking
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Donatello, David
1460s, bronze |
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Interested in rebirth of classical antiquity- Medici family commissioned him- david from goliath story- nude in status to represent his simplicity- he is young- his left hand holds the stone used; right hand is Goliath's sword- he's standing in victory* first free standing bronze status since classical antiquity* set in contraposto; considered more graceful way to stand at rest
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