FAH101H1 Study Guide - Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Cosimo Rosselli, Plate Armour
Document Summary
Rivalry and imitation fah 337 monday, january 20, 2014. Competitive spirit in fifteenth-century rome: the case of the sistine chapel. Donatello, equestrian monument to gattamelata (erasmo de narni), 1447-53, padua, piazza del. Verrocchio, equestrian monument of bartolomeo colleoni, hight apx. Both florentine; donatello the first to be called to the north for commissions. Condottiere mercenary soldier a leading general of a merc army (erasmo de narni) Venice had to rely on buying an army no standing army. He was hired and brought the city of padua into the venetian republic. First monument for a merc in this way competing w/ different types of historical precedence in military history. Monuments (usually in florence) for mercs were usually paid for by the city and were inexpensive. This monument was very expensive bronze and huge. --erasmo left money for this in his will shows his aspirations of himself in terms of the legacy he wanted to leave.
