Italian Renaissance Art

by Adams, Laurie Schneider

• ISBN13: 9780813336916
• ISBN10: 0813336910
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-08
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

The most up-to-date and complete text on Italian Renaissance art and its artists yet published, with over 400 illustrations, 215 in color.

Author Biography

Laurie Schneider Adams teaches undergraduate and graduate students at John Jay College, CUNY and the Graduate Center. She has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, University of Florida, Columbia University, and Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Art Across Time, The Methodologies of Art, A History of Western Art, Art and Psychoanalysis, Art on Trial, and editor of Giotto in Perspective. She is the editor or the quarterly journal Source: Notes in the History of Art.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE PRECURSORS OF THE RENAISSANCE
The Thirteenth Century	2	(23)
The Context	2	(2)
Politics	2	(2)
Box: Guelphs and Ghibellines	4	(1)
The Guilds	4	(1)
The Stylistic Background	4	(5)
Box: Early Christianity and the Life of Christ	6	(3)
Vasari's Lives and the ``Framing'' of the Renaissance	9	(1)
Cimabue	9	(4)
Box: Tempera Painting and the Bottega	11	(2)
Saints Dominic and Francis: Mendicant Friars	13	(1)
Box: Typology	13	(1)
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano	14	(4)
Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Rucellai Madonna	18	(3)
Siena and Florence in 1300	21	(2)
Box: Dante Alighieri	22	(1)
Giotto: The Santa Maria Novella Crucifix	23	(2)
Trecento Precursors	25	(33)
Giotto di Bondone	25	(15)
The Ognissanti Madonna	25	(1)
Box: Giovanni Boccaccio	25	(2)
Box: Fresco Painting	27	(1)
The Arena Chapel	28	(1)
Box: The Emergence of Humanism	28	(11)
Controversy Box: Giotto and the Assisi Frescoes	39	(1)
Sienese Painting in the Fourteenth Century	40	(6)
Duccio's Maesta	40	(3)
Simone Martini	43	(3)
Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Allegories of Good and Bad Government	46	(4)
1348: The Black Death	50	(1)
Controversy Box: the Impact of the Black Death	50	(1)
Andrea da Firenze: Way of Salvation	51	(2)
Andrea di Cione (Orcagna)	53	(5)
The Strozzi Altarpiece	53	(1)
The or San Michele Tabernacle	54	(4)
PART TWO THE QUATTROCENTO
Architecture and Sculpture in Florence: 1400-1430	58	(25)
Box: The Catasto of 1427	59	(1)
The Competition of 1401	60	(4)
Box: Bronze Casting	62	(2)
Ghiberti's Commentarii	64	(1)
Public Sculpture: The Exterior of Florence Cathedral	64	(1)
Donatello's Marble David	65	(1)
Donatello's John the Evangelist	65	(1)
The Architecture of Brunelleschi	66	(8)
The Dome	66	(2)
The Hospital of the Innocents	68	(2)
Box: The Medici in the Fifteenth Century	70	(1)
The Church of San Lorenzo	70	(1)
Box: The Orders of Architecture	71	(1)
The Church of Santo Spirito	72	(2)
Late Work: Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Ideal of the Circular Plan	74	(1)
Controversy Box: Brunelleschi's Sources	75	(1)
Or San Michele: The Exterior Niches	75	(8)
Painting in Florence: 1400-1430	83	(21)
Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin	83	(2)
Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi: 1423	85	(2)
Masaccio	87	(5)
The Pisa Altarpiece: The Virgin and Child	87	(2)
Box: Brunelleschi's Perspective System	89	(1)
The Trinity	90	(2)
The Brancacci Chapel Frescoes	92	(12)
The Disposition of the Scenes	92	(4)
Temptation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve	96	(2)
The Tribute Money	98	(1)
Controversy Box: The Restoration of the Brancacci Chapel Frescoes	99	(1)
The Frescoes on the Altar Wall	100	(4)
Painting in Florence: 1430-1460	104	(18)
Box: Women in the Italian Renaissance	104	(1)
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting	105	(1)
Fra Angelico	106	(9)
Filippo Lippi	115	(7)
Box: Pius II	115	(5)
Box: Jan van Eyck and the Renaissance in the Netherlands	120	(2)
Painting in Florence, II: 1430-1460	122	(20)
Paolo Uccello	122	(9)
Box: Condottieri	125	(4)
Box: The Dignity of Man in the Renaissance	129	(2)
Domenico Veneziano	131	(3)
Andrea del Castagno	134	(8)
Sculpture and Architecture in Florence: 1430s-1460s	142	(19)
Bruni's Humanist Tomb	142	(2)
Alberti's Self-Portrait Plaque: An Iconographic Puzzle	144	(2)
Box: The Renaissance Medal	145	(1)
Donatello in the Mid-Fifteenth Century	146	(5)
Ghiberti's East Doors	151	(3)
Box: Pisanello's Medal of John VIII Palaeologus	153	(1)
Palace Architecture	154	(5)
The Medici Palace: 1444-1460	154	(3)
The Rucellai Palace: 1450s	157	(1)
Box: Alberti's Architectural Metaphor	158	(1)
The Facade of Santa Maria Novella	159	(2)
Development in Siena, Rimini, and Pienza: 1400-1460	161	(18)
Siena	161	(10)
Sassetta	161	(3)
Box: San Bernardino of Siena	164	(1)
Jacopo della Quercia	164	(1)
The Ilaria del Carretto Tomb Monument	164	(1)
The Fonte Gaia	165	(1)
The Baptismal Font	166	(3)
The San Petronio Portal	169	(2)
Rimini	171	(6)
The Tempio Malatestiano	171	(4)
Medals of Sigismondo and Isotta	175	(2)
Pienza	177	(2)
Developments in Umbria, the Marches, and Naples: 1400s-1460s	179	(23)
Box: Vitruvius	179	(1)
Alfonso I of Naples	180	(4)
Pisanello's Medal of Alfonso	180	(1)
The Aragonese Arch	181	(3)
Piero della Francesca	184	(8)
The Baptism of Christ	184	(2)
The Madonna del Parto	186	(1)
Box: The Cartoon	187	(1)
The Arezzo Frescoes	187	(3)
Box: The Legend of the True Cross	190	(2)
The Montefeltro Court in Urbino	192	(9)
Clemente's Medal of Federico da Montefeltro	194	(2)
Piero's State Portraits	196	(2)
The Flagellation of Christ	198	(1)
The Madonna and Child with Saints	199	(1)
Controversy Box: The Question of the Egg	199	(2)
Federico's Dynastic Iconography	201	(1)
Sculpture and Architecture in Florence after 1450	202	(20)
Sculpture	202	(13)
Donatello	202	(1)
Mary Magdalen	202	(1)
The Bronze John the Baptist	203	(1)
Judith and Holofernes	203	(3)
Desiderio da Settignano	206	(2)
Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Antaeus	208	(1)
Andrea del Verrocchio	209	(1)
David	209	(1)
Doubting Thomas	209	(2)
The Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici	211	(2)
Putto with a Dolphin	213	(2)
Colleoni	215	(1)
Architecture	215	(7)
The Strozzi Palace	216	(1)
Giuliano da Sangallo	217	(1)
The Medici Villa: Poggio a Caiano	218	(1)
Santa Maria delle Carceri	219	(3)
Painting in Florence after 1450	222	(24)
Benozzo Gozzoli: The Medici Chapel Frescoes	222	(4)
Pollaiuolo	226	(3)
Botticelli	229	(9)
Box: The Platonic Academy	233	(5)
Filippino Lippi: Vision of Saint Bernard	238	(2)
Ghirlandaio	240	(6)
Fifteenth-Century Developments in Verona, Ferrara, and Mantua	246	(24)
Pisanello in Verona	246	(2)
Pisanello and the Este of Ferrara	248	(6)
Box: The Este of Ferrara	250	(4)
Developments in Mantua	254	(6)
The Sala Pisanello Frescoes	254	(1)
Box: The Gonzaga of Mantua	255	(1)
Alberti in Mantua	256	(4)
Andrea Mantegna	260	(2)
Mantegna and the Gonzaga of Mantua	262	(8)
Developments in Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Venice	270	(22)
Jacopo Bellini	272	(3)
Box: The Venetian Scuole	272	(3)
Gentile Bellini	275	(1)
Carpaccio's Miracle at the Rialto	276	(2)
Antonello da Messina	278	(2)
Giovanni Bellini	280	(12)
Box: Ovid and the Renaissance	289	(3)
PART THREE THE CINQUECENTO
Leonardo and Bramante: Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Developments in Florence and Milan	292	(20)
Leonardo da Vinci: Florence	292	(6)
Leonardo and Bramante in Milan	298	(9)
Politics and Humanist Patronage	298	(2)
Lodovico and Bramante	300	(4)
Lodovico and Leonardo	304	(3)
Leonardo's Later Work	307	(5)
Controversy Box: Freud, Leonardo, and Art History: A Methodological Squabble	311	(1)
Michelangelo and Raphael: The Late Fifteenth Century to 1505	312	(18)
Michelangelo: Florence and Rome	312	(9)
Controversy Box: Michelangelo and the ``Marble Breast''	317	(4)
Raphael: Urbino, Perugia, and Florence	321	(9)
Box: Literary Figures at the Court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro	321	(9)
Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael: Developments in Rome to 1520	330	(27)
Bramante in Rome	330	(2)
The Patronage of Julius II	332	(16)
Box: The Evolution of Saint Peter's	334	(1)
Michelangelo: The Tomb of Julius II	334	(2)
The Sistine Ceiling	336	(8)
Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura	344	(1)
Disputation over the Sacrament (or Disputa)	345	(1)
School of Athens	346	(2)
Raphael After 1511	348	(5)
Galatea	348	(1)
Fire in the Borgo	349	(1)
Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi	350	(1)
Transfiguration	351	(2)
Domestic Architecture	353	(4)
The Villa Madama	353	(2)
The Farnese Palace	355	(2)
Venice in the Sixteenth Century	357	(22)
Giorgione da Castelfranco	358	(6)
Enthroned Madonna with Saints Liberalis and Francis	358	(3)
Tempest	361	(1)
Fete Champetre	362	(1)
Sleeping Venus	363	(1)
Portrait of an Old Woman (Col Tempo)	363	(1)
Titian	364	(10)
Sacred and Profance Love	364	(1)
Assumption of the Virgin	365	(1)
The Pesaro Altarpiece	365	(3)
Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne	368	(1)
Venus of Urbino	369	(1)
Danae	370	(1)
Pope Paul III	371	(1)
Pieta	372	(2)
Later Sixteenth-Century Developments and Mannerist Trends	374	(5)
Tintoretto: Last Supper	374	(1)
Veronese: Apotheosis of Venice	374	(3)
Palladio: Developments in Architecture	377	(2)
Michelangelo after 1520 and the Transition to Mannerism	379	(21)
Box: Machiavelli	379	(1)
Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel	380	(4)
Victory	384	(2)
Last Judgment	386	(2)
Michelangelo's Later Architecture	388	(4)
The Vestibule of the Laurentian Library	388	(2)
The Campidoglio	390	(2)
Towards Mannerism	392	(8)
Correggio and Parmigianino	392	(2)
Giulio Romano	394	(2)
Pontormo	396	(1)
Florence under Cosimo I de' Medici	397	(3)
Timeline	400	(4)
Glossary of Art-Historical and Stylistic Terms	404	(4)
Select Bibliography	408	(5)
Notes	413	(1)
Picture Credits	413	(2)
Index	415