1. The Lure of Antiquity: Quattrocento Italy I

2. Map of Italy
ca. 1400

3. (French for “rebirth”)
RENAISSANCE
(French for “rebirth”)

4. Giorgio Vasari
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (first edition 1550; expanded edition 1568)

5. The Development of the Visual Arts
according to Vasari
Classical Antiquity
Perfection
Renaissance
Rebirth
The Middle Ages
Decline

6. Herman Posthumus, Tempus edax rerum (“Time, devourer of things”), 1536
-In Renaissance, antiquity meant work, namely working in and «with» Rome
«Time, devorer of all things»
Ask students to take a moment to take in this image
Herman Posthumus, Tempus edax rerum (“Time, devourer of things”), 1536

7. Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence,
begun 1059

8. Byzantine micromosaic icon of Christ, 12th century

9. Benedetto da Maiano, Monument to Giotto di Bondone, Florence Cathedral, 1490

10. Florence

11. Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence

12. Filippo Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, gilded bronze, 1401-1402
Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac,
gilded bronze,

13. The Thorn-Puller (Spinario), bronze, 1st century BCE

14. The Thorn-Puller (Spinario)
Entry into Jerusalem, Byzantine ivory icon, second half of the 10th century

15. Lorenzo Ghiberti,
The Sacrifice of Isaac,

16. Lorenzo Ghiberti, north doors of
the Florence Baptistery, gilded bronze,

17. Michelozzo di Bartolommeo,
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, begun 1445

18. Donatello, David,
bronze, ca
(height: 5’ 2¼’’)

19. Spinario

20. The victor is whoever defends the fatherland
The victor is whoever defends the fatherland. God crushes the wrath of an enormous foe. Behold! A boy overcame a great tyrant. Conquer, O citizens!

22. Relief on Goliath’s helmet: cupids pulling a chariot with another cupid riding (Triumph of Love?) 

23. Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (“Springtime”), tempera on wood, ca. 1482
(dimensions: 6’ 8’’ x 10’ 4’’)

24. Cupid
Venus
Zephyr
Mercury
Chloris
Three Graces
Flora

25. The Three Graces, marble, Roman copy of a Greek work of the 2nd century BCE

26. Mercury

27. Wind god ZEPHYR
FLORA
Nymph CHLORIS