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Some Key Principles of the Renaissance
• Imitation of nature• Desire to surpass classical models in quality• Rationality and empirical knowledge• Reconciling these other goals with
Christianity• Arts innovation through trade, travel,
growing patronage
Cathedral Complex, Pisa. Cathedral, begun 1063; baptistery, begun 1153; campanile, begun 1174; Campo Santo, 13th century.
Thomas Becket assassination in book of psalms (ca. 1250)
Christ Church, Canterbury Key dates of construction from 1067,1180,1220, 1377-1405, 1498
Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Frescos of the Sala dei Nove (Or Sala della Pace). 1338–1339. Length of long wall about 46’.
Santa Maria del Fiore DuomoFlorence Cathedral(1296-1470)
Three Renaissance artists:Giotto (1334-59) Campanile
Fillipo Brunelleschi (1420-40)Dome
Lorenzo Ghiberti(1401-1452) Baptistery doors
Left: Filippo Brunelleschi and Right: Lorenzo Ghiberti. Sacrifice of Isaac. 1401–1402. 21 × 17 1/2”.
Masaccio, Tribute Money fresco in Brancacci Chapel (1425-28) Sainta Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Continuous narration: Apostle Peter shown in three separate moments in unified composition
One-point perspective
Inscription:“I was once what you are; what I am, you will be.”
Masaccio. Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, and
Donors. c. 1425–1427/1428. 21' × 10’ 5”.
Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece with Annunciation, two donors, and Joseph (1425) Flemish, oil on panel
Venetian painting
Giovanni BelliniSan Giobbe Altarpiece (1487)Oil paint on panel
Sacra conversatzione - sacred conversation