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Analysis 2

Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420 - 1436)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
Masonry with wood supports

Architectural/engineering marvel
Dome located over crossing of apse and transept
Double dome
No internal or external buttressing (series of self-supporting arches with ribs)
Oculus at top of dome
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Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420 - 1436)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
Masonry with wood supports

Architectural/engineering marvel
Dome located over crossing of apse and transept
Double dome
No internal or external buttressing (series of self-supporting arches with ribs)
Oculus at top of dome
Image: Dome of Florence Cathedral (1420 - 1436) Filippo Brunelleschi Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Masonry with wood supports Architectural/engineering marvel Dome located over crossing of apse and transept Double dome No internal or external buttressing (series of self-supporting arches with ribs) Oculus at top of dome
David (1446 - 60)
Florence
Donatello
Bronze

Attentiveness to facial and body features
First life-size nude since Antiquity
Heroic nude (Neo-Classical influence)
David normally depicted as man
- Exaggeration of boyish features
- Rounded facial features
- Less muscles
- Effeminate pose
Image: David (1446 - 60) Florence Donatello Bronze Attentiveness to facial and body features First life-size nude since Antiquity Heroic nude (Neo-Classical influence) David normally depicted as man - Exaggeration of boyish features - Rounded facial features - Less muscles - Effeminate pose
Gates of Paradise (1425 - 52)
Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gilt bronze

Competition to design doors (1400 - 01)
- Beat Brunelleschi
Funded by wool manufacturer's guild
- Very wealthy guild
Depicts scenes from Hebrew Bible
- 10 scenes
- From Creation to the Reign of Solomon
Michelangelo named them "Gates of Paradise"
Organizes scenes using linear perspective with vanishing point
- Sense of orthogonal lines (right angles layered)
- Arches extending back to create depth
- Very detailed foreground and less detailed background
to create depth
Use of rectangular, not quatrifoil, panels

* Jacob and Esau Panel (1435)
Twins predicted to fight each other
Esau older and Jacob younger
Esau settles birthright for bowl of stew
Mom tricks dad to bless Jacob
- Thinks its Esau
- Jacob is mom's favorite
Three timelines
- Background: mom talking to God about pregnancy
- Middleground: Jacob and Esau with stew
- Foreground: Isaac blessing Jacob
Image: Gates of Paradise (1425 - 52) Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence Lorenzo Ghiberti Gilt bronze Competition to design doors (1400 - 01) - Beat Brunelleschi Funded by wool manufacturer's guild - Very wealthy guild Depicts scenes from Hebrew Bible - 10 scenes - From Creation to the Reign of Solomon Michelangelo named them "Gates of Paradise" Organizes scenes using linear perspective with vanishing point - Sense of orthogonal lines (right angles layered) - Arches extending back to create depth - Very detailed foreground and less detailed background to create depth Use of rectangular, not quatrifoil, panels * Jacob and Esau Panel (1435) Twins predicted to fight each other Esau older and Jacob younger Esau settles birthright for bowl of stew Mom tricks dad to bless Jacob - Thinks its Esau - Jacob is mom's favorite Three timelines - Background: mom talking to God about pregnancy - Middleground: Jacob and Esau with stew - Foreground: Isaac blessing Jacob
Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors (1425 - 27/28)
Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Masaccio
Fresco

Gives illusion of funerary monument
Aeidula
- Framed niche below altar
Vanishing point determined by eye level of adult
Figures displayed by measured intervals
Patrons: Lenzi Family
- Donors shown in painting
- Mr. Lenzi in red means member of governing council
of Florence
Skeleton visible in open sarcophagus
- Inevitability of death and only thing to do in life is to
accept Christ
Image: Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors (1425 - 27/28) Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence Masaccio Fresco Gives illusion of funerary monument Aeidula - Framed niche below altar Vanishing point determined by eye level of adult Figures displayed by measured intervals Patrons: Lenzi Family - Donors shown in painting - Mr. Lenzi in red means member of governing council of Florence Skeleton visible in open sarcophagus - Inevitability of death and only thing to do in life is to accept Christ
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (1427)
Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Masaccio
Fresco

Emotions of pure anguish
Focus on mass of the body
- Studied how muscle lay on bone
- How the body cast shadows
Not focused on movement but psychological effect of expulsion
- Adam not conscious of nude body but covers
anguished face
- Eve body conscious but face screaming
- Angel not driving out; human guilt instead
Image: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (1427) Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence Masaccio Fresco Emotions of pure anguish Focus on mass of the body - Studied how muscle lay on bone - How the body cast shadows Not focused on movement but psychological effect of expulsion - Adam not conscious of nude body but covers anguished face - Eve body conscious but face screaming - Angel not driving out; human guilt instead

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