slides, day 2, part 2
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Part 2: Marriage and SexTRANSCRIPT
“We build sumptuously in order to demonstrate our
greatness to posterity [and] to do honor to our fatherland
and family.”
-- Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building, 1443-52
“Men do two important things in this life: the first is to
procreate; the second is to build.”
-- Giovanni Rucellai, Zibaldone, 1473
Map of Florence, 1471-1482
Palazzi on the Via de’ Benci
Palazzo Ginori, Via de’ Ginori, Florence
Palazzo Ginori stemma
Palazzo Spinelli
Palazzo Rucellai
(designed by L. B.
Alberti), Florence,
1446-1452
Loggia Rucellai
Michelozzo, Medici Palace, 1444-1460
Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (fourth episode), ca. 1483
Palazzo Spinelli
Loggia Rucellai
Adimari Panel, ca. 1443-1450
Tuscan cassone (marriage chest)
Detail of a panel showing wedding gifts (including a cassone) being carried through the streets
Desco da parto (birth tray), 1428
Birth bowl showing a mother nursing her newborn while entertaining visitors, c. 1550-70
Giovanni Toscani,
La Festa di
San Giovanni,
early 15th c. (cassone)
Festa di San Giovanni, Florence, 24 June
The palio in Siena, 18th-century painting
Palio di Fucecchio, Tuscany
Sano di Pietro,
Saint Bernardino of Siena
Preaching in the Campo,
1445
Savonarola Preaching in the Duomo, Florence,1495
Leon Battista Alberti, Self-portrait medal
Titian, Portrait of
Pietro Aretino, 1545
Cosimo I de’ Medici Federico II Gonzaga
Vecellio, De Gli Habiti
Antichi…: Public prostitute
Ghirlandaio, Francesco
Sassetti and his Son
Teodoro (?), ca. 1485
(MMA)
Childbirth Tray with Youths
Playing Civettino, ca. 1450
Titian, Portrait of
Pietro Aretino, 1545
Titian, Venus, Mars and Amor, c. 1540
Courtesan and Blind Cupid (Flap print with liftable skirt),ca. 1588
Marcantonio Raimondi, I Modi, 1524 (after drawings
by Giulio Romano)
I Modi, ca. 1550-60
Attributed to
Desiderio da Firenze,
Satyr and Satyress,
after 1524
Triumph of the Phallus, 17th century French engraving after an Italian drawing of 1540s