Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

viewpoints, allowing Pollaiuolo to demonstrate his prowess in render- ing the nude male figure. In this, he was a kindred spirit ...

Astute observers can read the proportional relationships among the interior’s parts as a series of mathematical equations. The a ...

the monk’s chapter house(meeting hall). Brunelleschi began to de- sign the Pazzi Chapel around 1423, but work continued until th ...

Florence 565 suggested that the local chapter of Franciscan monks who held meetings in the chapel needed the expansion. Behind t ...

566 Chapter 21 ITALY,1400 TO 1500 21-37Michelozzo di Bartolommeo, interior court of the Palazzo Medici- Riccardi, Florence, Ital ...

ence, although his pupil and collaborator,Bernardo Rossellino (1409–1464), actually constructed the building using Alberti’s pla ...

GIROLAMO SAVONAROLAIn the 1490s, Florence under- went a political, cultural, and religious upheaval. Florentine artists and thei ...

ployed. His contribution to the fresco cycle of the Sistine Chapel was Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter ...

scenes depicting the end of the world, including Damned Cast into Hell (FIG. 21-41). Few figure compositions of the 15th century ...

San Bernadino degli Zoccolanti near Urbino, the painting’s intended location. If so, the viewer would be compelled to believe in ...

FLAGELLATIONPiero’s most enigmatic painting is Flagellation of Christ(FIG. 21-43), a small panel painting perhaps also produced ...

nious design. The Renaissance architect’s concern for proportion led him to equalize the vertical and horizontal dimensions of t ...

The tremendous vaults in the interior of Sant’Andrea suggest that Alberti’s model may have been Constantine’s Basilica Nova (FIG ...

The Renaissance painter’s daring experimen- talism led him to complete the room’s decoration with the first perspective of a cei ...

FORESHORTENED CHRISTOne of Mantegna’s later paint- ings (FIG. 21-49) is another example of the artist’s mastery of per- spective ...

FLORENCE ❚The fortunate congruence of artistic genius, the spread of humanism, and economic prosperity nourished the flowering o ...

22-1Michelangelo Buonarroti,ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1508–1512. Fresco, 128 45 . Michelangel ...

T he 15th-century artistic developments in Italy (for example, the interest in perspective, anatomy, and classical cultures) mat ...

Leonardo da Vinci Born in the small town of Vinci, near Florence,Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) trained in the studio of Andrea d ...

effective use of atmospheric perspective is the result in large part of his mastery of the relatively new medium of oil painting ...