Slides for Week 10
1. Andrea del Sarto, The Annunciation, 1512-13, Oil on wood, 183 x 184 cm, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence. 2. Pontormo, Visitation, 1514-16, Fresco, 392 x 337 cm, Santissima...
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The Florentine Reformers.
This is the name that Freedberg gave to the group of painters trained and/or influenced by Bronzino, but who rejected his ideas in favour of a more naturalistic painting. The main one was Santi di...
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Bronzino and Late Mannerism.
It is known that Bronzino was a pupil of Pontormo, and in his formative years he was content to base his style on his master’s art; this derivative tendency can be seen in the Washington Holy Family,...
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Pontormo and Rosso: The Dioscuri of Mannerism.
Pontormo and Rosso provide good case studies in mannerism because they were both born in 1494 amidst the political and social turmoil in renaissance Florence which is often seen as a cause of the...
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Mannerism
Pontormo, Joseph in Egypt, 1515-18, Oil on wood, 96 x 109 cm, National Gallery, London.Mannerism is a style of art that was out of favour for centuries; but with the appearance of movements like German...
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1) Fra Bartolommeo, Madonna, Child and Infant Baptist, 1497, oil and gold on wood, 58.4 x 43.8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2) Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna with a Flower (Madonna...
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Piero di Cosimo.
Piero di Cosimo, The Immaculate Conception with SS Francis, Jerome, Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, 1510s, Panel, 184 x 178 cm, San Francesco, Fiesole.Of this group of Florentine...
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Andrea del Sarto.
Andrea del Sarto, Miraculous Cure by Relics of Filippo Benizzi, 1510, Fresco, Santissima Annunziata, Florence.View of the Atrium, Santissima Annunziata, Florence.According to Vasari, Andrea trained...
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Fra Bartolomeo and Raphael.
Raphael, Madonna del Baldacchino, 1507-08, Oil on canvas, 276 x 224 cm, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence. In his analysis of the Lucca altarpiece, Wind identified a fusion of Leonardo,...
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Fra Bartolommeo and Spiritual Unity at the end of the Quattrocento.
Fra Bartolommeo, Madonna, Child and Infant Baptist, 1497, oil and gold on wood, 58.4 x 43.8 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna with a Flower (Madonna Benois), c....
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1) Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1485, Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.2) Sandro Botticelli, The Calumny of Apelles, 1494-95, Tempera on...
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The Angelic Visions of Botticini and Botticelli
Francesco Botticini, 1475-6, Assumption of the Virgin, Tempera on wood, 228.6 x 377.2 cm, London, National Gallery.Botticini’s Assumption was used as the altarpiece in the burial chapel in S. Pier...
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A Related Nightmare.
Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, 1483, Tempera on wood, 69 x 173,5 cm, National Gallery, London.Piero di Cosimo, Venus, Mars, and Cupid, 1490, Poplar panel, 72 x 182 cm, Staatliche Museen,...
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Botticelli's Bad Dream Art.
Biagio d’ Antonio, The Triumph of Camillus, 1470-75, Tempera on panel, 60 x 154 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington.In the 1480s Botticelli gained commissions from families in high society....
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The Dark Side of Botticelli.
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1485, Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.For many people Botticelli was responsible for producing the most well-known...
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1) Andrea del Verrocchio, David, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1473-5, bronze, height, 125 cm. 2) Detail.3) Andrea del Verrocchio, Equestrian Statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni,...
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Lorenzo di Credi, Verrocchio’s Favourite Pupil.
Pietro Perugino, Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi, 1488, oil on panel transferred to canvas, original panel: 44 x 30.5 cm (17 5/16 x 12 in.) overall (with added border): 46 x 32.5 cm (18 1/8 x 12 13/16...
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Verrocchio, Painting and Sculpture.
Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci, Baptism of Christ, Florence, Uffizi, 1472-5, oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm.Looking at post-renaissance representations of Leonardo and Verrocchio’s...
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Verrocchio’s Early Style and an Obscure Panel in the Courtauld.
Att. to Andrea del Verrocchio, Madonna and Child, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, possibly 1460s (Shearman). Rogier van der Weyden, Madonna, Virgin and Child, c. 1433, Oil on panel, 14 x 10 cm,...
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Origins of Verrocchio’s Studio in Florence
Andrea del Verrocchio, David, Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 1473-5, bronze, height, 125 cm. Andrea was the son of Michele di Francesco di Cione, a tax official. The artist’s first...
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