1. Church, State and Lay Piety
Florence and Venice in the Renaissance HI320

2. Canaletto, San Pietro di Castello (C18th)

6. Titian, Doge Antonio Grimani presents himself to the Faith (Palazzo Ducale, 1575-6)

7. Palma il Giovane, Doge Francesco Venier beseeching the Virgin Mary (Palazzo Ducale, 1595)

8. Medici Palace Chapel, Florence, with frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli (1459-61)

10. “in the Italian Republics of the Renaissance religion ceased to be, as it had been in the Middle Ages, the preserve of specialists”
(J.J. Martin)

12. Continuities and Changes

13. Church and State
“The church becomes increasingly more like a state, and the state becomes more and more involved in the religious sphere” (R. Bizzocchi)

15. Pinturicchio, Eugenius IV (Siena, 1502-7)
Venetian Popes Gregory XII (r ), Eugenius IV (r )
nipoti - nepotism
Pinturicchio, Eugenius IV (Siena, )

16. Raphael, Leo X with Giulio de’ Medici (1518-19)
Florence
Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII
War of the Eight Saints (1375-8)
Interdicts 1376, 1478, 1511
Raphael, Leo X with Giulio de’ Medici ( )

17. Archbishop of Florence Antonino Pierozzi (Saint Antoninus), 1389-1459
Lorenzo Lotto, St. Antoninus, 1542

18. Gentile Bellini, Patriarch Lorenzo Giustiniani (1459)
Venice
1451 Patriarch of Grado moved to Venice
Tre savi contra l’eresia
1509 Interdict from Julius II
Giovani resist papal influence
Interdict
Gentile Bellini, Patriarch Lorenzo Giustiniani (1459)

20. The Parish

21. Confraternities
laudesi
sacre rappresentazi oni

22. Santa Maria Novella Santa Maria Novella (Dominican)
Santa Croce (Franciscan)

23. San Giovanni e Paolo (Dominican)
Santa Maria dei Frari (Franciscan)

24. Preachers
Saint Bernardino of Siena ( ), Saint Antoninus ( ), Savonarola ( )
Bernardino Ochino ( )

25. Religion in everyday life
‘The Merchant of Prato’ Francesco Datini: ‘in the name of God and profit’

26. “Vengeance must fall on thee, thou filthy whore / Of Babylon, thou breaker of Christ’s fold” (Petrarch, Sonnets)