ARTH 201 Lecture _1

15th Century Italian Art: Early Renaissance Painting
Quattrocento
TERMS TO KNOW:
tempera paint
IMPORTANT FIGURES:
Virgin Mary
Trinity
guilds, apprentices, masters
Saint John the Evangelist
Crucifixion
sacra conversazione
Lenzi family
patron
iconographical attributes
Dominican monks
donor
embroidered cope
Franciscan monks
altarpiece
crozier
true fresco or buon fresco
Saint John the Baptist
fresco a secco
asymmetrical composition
Saint Zenobius
coffers
off-center vanishing point
Saint Lucy
barrel vault
Saint Francis
memento mori
iconongraphy
compositional symmetry
Color terms: hue, neutrals, value, saturation
iconographical conventions
isocephalic composition
aerial perspective
rhetorical gesture
Venus
Masaccio The Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, c. 1428
Masaccio The Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, c. 1428
Masaccio The Holy Trinity,
Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, c. 1428
Masaccio The Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella,
Florence, c. 1428
Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine,
Florence
Masaccio Tribute Money, from the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine,
Florence, c. 1427
Domenico Veneziano
The Saint Lucy
Altarpiece, c. 1445
Domenico Veneziano The Saint Lucy Altarpiece,
c. 1445
Piero della Francesca Madonna and Child with
Saints Adored by Federico da Montefeltro, or
The Brera Altarpiece, c. 1472-1474
Piero della Francesca The Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455
Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus, c. 1486
Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus, c. 1486