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Patronage: Giving artists freedom to work Church as major patron from 15th c. Religious and Classical themes
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Giotto di Bondone (c. 1266-1337) Scenes from the Life of Christ: 20. Lamentation (1304-6) FrescoRealism EmotionPerspective
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Masaccio (“Messy One”, a.k.a. Tommaso Guidi, Lo Scheggia [“The Splinter”], 1401-c. 1428) Trinity (1425-28) chiaroscuro (contrast of light and shade)
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Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444-1510) The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) Classical themes
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Self-Portrait (c. 1512) Vitruvian Man (1492) Virgin of the Rocks (1483-86) – sfumato (“smoky”) Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (c. 1503-5)
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) The Creation of Adam (c. 1510) Nudes Sistine ChapelJulius II (p. 1503-13)
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Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair, 1516) The School of Athens (1509)
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1652) Judith Beheading Holofernes (1611-12)
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Neoplatonism Michelangelo The Pietà (1498-99) Donatello (1386-1466) David (c. 1430)
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Donato Bramante (1444-1514) St Peter’s Basilica, Rome Tempietto, Rome Pythagoras (6 th c. BC) Giovanni Palestrina (c. 1525-94) Super Flumina Babylonis
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94) Kabbalah Free will as means to great good or evil Possibility of rising to angelic near-divinity
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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Born in Florence. Humanist education Politician and ambassador 1512 Machiavelli forced to retire The Prince Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy History of Florence
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The End of the Renaissance: Economic decline: Ottomans, New World trade, competing producers/merchants Wars: Death, destruction, economic damage Results: reduction in patronage, lack of stable environment for artistic activity
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