Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History
troops at their disposal played a major role in the ongoing struggle for power. Princely courts, such as those in Urbino and Man ...
baptistery between 1330 and 1335. The wool merchants’ guild spon- sored the 1401 competition for the second set of doors, requir ...
appears in a typically Gothic pose with outthrust hip (compare FIG. 18-26) and seems to contemplate the act he is about to perfo ...
of stone- and woodworkers. They chose one of their members, Nanni di Banco(ca. 1380–1421), to create four life-size marble statu ...
in the baptistery competition reliefs (FIGS. 21-2and 21-3) are mod- eled forms seen against a blank background. In Saint George ...
hand. At the left, Herod and two terrified children shrink back in dis- may. The psychic explosion drives the human elements apa ...
sensations under a simple rule that could be expressed mathemati- cally. Indeed, Renaissance artists’ interest in perspective re ...
actually projects slightly toward the viewer) appear almost fully in the round, some of their heads standing completely free. As ...
directed a flourishing bottega (studio-shop) in Florence that attracted many students, among them Leonardo da Vinci. Verrocchio, ...
contact with the earth. Finally, Hercules held him aloft so that he could not touch the ground, and strangled him around the wai ...
the Gattamelata portrait achieved, Colleoni provided funds in his will for his own statue. Since both Donatello and Verrocchio e ...
altarpiece for the family chapel of Palla Strozzi (1372–1462) in the church of Santa Trinità in Florence. At the beginning of th ...
BRANCACCI CHAPELThe frescoes Masaccio painted in the Brancacci family chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence pro- vide ex ...
the cry issuing from Eve’s mouth voices her anguish. The angel does not force them physically from Eden. Rather, they stumble on ...
(FIG. 10-39), the Virgin Mary and Saint John appear on either side of the crucified Christ. God the Father emerges from behind C ...
monastic life. He indulged in misdemeanors ranging from forgery and embezzlement to the abduction of a pretty nun, Lucretia, who ...
preferred the real in landscape also. The background, seen through the window, incorporates recognizable features of the Arno Ri ...
Her appearance in the painting (a different female member of the house appears in each fresco) is conspicuous evidence of the se ...
brilliant colorist as well, as is evident in Primavera(Spring;FIG. 21-27), one of the most popular paintings among a host of oth ...
ENGRAVING Although the most prestigious commissions in 15th-century Florence were for large-scale panel paintings and fres- coes ...
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