Art of Florence (Artabras)

THE ART OF
FLORENCE
BY
GLENN M. ANDRES
JOHN M. HUNISAK
A. RICHARD TURNER
Principal photography by TAKASHI OKAMURA
A R T A B R A S
A Division of Abbeville Publishing Group
NEW YORK
LONDON
PARIS
CONTENTS
EDITOR’S NOTE
13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
14
INTRODUCTION
15
Volume I
1. PRELUDE TO GREATNESS (59 B.C.–A.D. 1200)
21
2. CIVIC PRIDE AND PROSPERITY (1200–1340)
47
ARCHITECTURE
Dugento Politics and Society
The Early Dugento and the Primo Popolo: Santa Maria Novella, the Bargello
The Era of the Secondo Popolo and the Work of Arnolfo di Cambio
The Early Trecento and the Rule of the Blacks: The Campanile, the Loggia
of Orsanmichele, the Palazzo Davanzati
47
51
60
94
SCULPTURE
Florentine Sculpture and Arnolfo di Cambio
Tino di Camaino
Andrea Pisano’s Baptistery Doors
Andrea Pisano’s Sculpture for the Campanile
105
133
137
173
PAINTING
Dante and Florentine Pictorial Art
The Dugento
178
185
The Turn of the Century: Giotto
The Mid-Trecento: Giotto’s Followers
217
230
3. AN AGE OF CRISIS (1340–1400)
237
ARCHITECTURE
The Black Death, the Mid-Trecento Economic Collapse, and the Revival
of Religious and Public Architecture
237
SCULPTURE
The Decline of Trecento Sculpture
270
PAINTING
Painting and the Trecento Crisis: A Return to Institutional Piety?
301
4. IMAGES OF A FREE REPUBLIC
(THEEARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY)
321
ARCHITECTURE
The Rise of Civic Humanism
The Art of the Engineer: Brunelleschi and the Duomo
Brunelleschi and the Architecture of Humanism
321
324
328
SCULPTURE
The Birth of Renaissance Sculpture: Ghiberti and the Competition for
the Baptistery Doors
Early Quattrocento Sculpture for the Duomo
The Niche Sculpture for Orsanmichele and the Campanile
Relief Sculpture in the Early Quattrocento
Donatello and Public Imagery
364
367
390
401
437
PAINTING
Two Visions of Painting: Gentile and Masaccio
Masaccio, Masolino, and the Brancacci Chapel Frescoes
445
485
5. THE ERA OF COSIMO DE’ MEDICI (1430–69)
493
ARCHITECTURE
The Triumph of Cosimo and the Decline of Republicanism
Michelozzo and the Medici
Leon Battista Alberti: Theory and Practice
Architecture and Ambition: The Rise of Private Patronage
493
497
507
529
SCULPTURE
Donatello’s Work at the Old Sacristy and Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
Quattrocento Ecclesiastical Sculpture: Luca della Robbia
Donatello and the Penitent Saints
In Praise of the Individual: Quattrocento Wall Tombs and Portrait Busts
Desiderio and Donatello in the Service of the Medici
547
553
557
561
580
PAINTING
Alberti: On Painting, On Perspective
Painting in Transition: Fra Angelico, Uccello
Painting, 1445–60: The Consolidation of a New Vision
Multiplicity and Diversity in Mid-Quattrocento Painting
612
616
689
692
VOLUME II
6. LORENZO IL MAGNIFICO (1469–92)
713
ARCHITECTURE
The Golden Age of Renaissance Florence
713
Architecture and Oligarchy: The Palazzo Pazzi and the Pazzi Chapel
The Renaissance Ideal: Architecture as History and Theory
Giuliano da Sangallo
721
727
749
SCULPTURE
Andrea del Verrocchio
Relief Sculpture During the Laurentian Age
Late Quattrocento Portrait Busts
Michelangelo’s Early Years
760
765
770
796
PAINTING
Neoplatonism and the Intellectual World of the Laurentian Age
The Linear and the Sculptural Traditions in the 1470s: Botticelli and Leonardo
The Florentine Linear Style—Refined, Exhausted
798
801
844
7. THE END OF THE REPUBLIC (1492–1530)
903
ARCHITECTURE
Religion and Politics at the Dawn of the Early Modern Era 903
Florentine Tradition and the Challenge of Rome: Il Cronaca, Raphael
Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel
The Laurentian Library
911
943
953
SCULPTURE
Florentine Sculpture at the Turn of the Century
Michelangelo’s David
Early Cinquecento Sculpture
Michelangelo’s Sculptural Program for the Medici Chapel
960
964
974
1015
PAINTING
Late Quattrocento Painting: Botticelli, Lippi, Perugino
1021
The Triumph of the High Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
The Florentine Response: Fra Bartolommeo and Andrea del Sarto
Pontormo, Rosso, and the Limits of Classical Perfection
1040
1053
1074
8. THE MEDICEAN PRINCIPATE (1530–C. 1600)
1111
ARCHITECTURE
Stability, Continuity, and Decline: The Reign of the Ducal Medici
Reshaping the City: From Republican to Ducal Architecture
Mannerist Architecture Under Francesco de’ Medici
The Passing of Florentine Glory: The Capella dei Principi
1111
1128
1147
1180
SCULPTURE
Michelangelo’s Late Sculpture
Cosimo I and the Fine Arts
Giovanni Bologna
1184
1213
1222
PAINTING
Bronzino and the High Style of Mannerism
Florentine Art—A City’s Past Becomes Its Future
1225
1271
GLOSSARY
1277
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1281
ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER
1289
INDEX
1291
PHOTO CREDITS
1312
Left: PLATE 107
Taddeo Gaddi
East wall of the
Baronceilli Chapel,
Fresco
San Croce
Opposite: PLATE 108
Taddeo Gaddi
Annunciation to
the Shepherds,
Fresco
Baronceilli Chapel,
San Croce
Left: PLATE 225
Masaccio and
Masolion da Panicale,
Madonna and Child
with Saint Anne
and Five Angels, c.1424
Tempera on panel
175 2 103 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi
opposite: PLATE 226
Masaccio and
Masolion da Panicale,
Madonna and Child
with Saint Anne
and Five Angels, c.1424
Detail: head of the Virgin
Tempera on panel
175 2 103 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi
above: PLATE 302
Luca della Robbia
Vault decoration of the Chapel of the
Cardinal of Portugal, 1461-66
Glazed Terra-cotta,San Miniato al Monte
Right: PLATE 336
Fra Angelico
and workshop,
Mocking of Christ,
late 1430s–early 1440s
Detail: Dominic
in contemplation
Fresco
Monastery of
San Marco