ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Israelites, Predella, Felice Brancacci
Document Summary
Italy 1400-1500: humanism and the allure of antiquity. Renaissance florence: greatest center of renaissance art in 15rh century was florence, home of the powerful. In 1401, a competition was announced by the arte di calimala (cloth importers guild); panel for east doors, baptistery of florence cathedral, florence, italy, 1401-02. Ghiberti won because more movement/lines and brunelleschi lost: lorenzo ghiberti, east doors (gates of paradise) of the baptistery of san giovanni, Gilded bronze: lorenzo ghiberti, isaac and his sons, 1425-52, with an overlay of perspective orthogonals. Linear perspective: capture realism: donatello, saint george, 1415-18. Predella: platform or step on which an altar stands: donatello, david, from the palazzo medici, florence, italy, ca. Nudity used to portray a biblical hero rather than as an allegory for sinfulness (medieval mentality). Young shepherd boy fights giant, defending israelites; standing on severed head of. Goliath (david killed goliath); s-curve of the body shows swagger; too young to look muscular.
