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Famous Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Week 1• History• Fra Angelico• Botticelli• Donatello
Introduction to Italy and the Renaissance
• ca. 1400 – 1600: a re-birth of ancient Rome and Greece• Geography
• Independent city-states• Varying political systems
• Catholic Church• Art
Renaissance Italy
Hierarchy of Painting
• History• Mythological• Religious • Portraiture• Landscapes• Genre painting (scenes of every day life)• Still Life
(Middle Ages)
Cimabue Madonna and Child
Enthroned 1280-1285
Fra AngelicoAnnunciation
1440-1442
Botticelli, Primavera, 1482
Statue Group of the Three GracesRoman copy of a Greek work
Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1485
Praxiteles (original)
Aphrodite of Knidos
Roman copy after an original of
ca. 340–330 BCE
DonatelloDavid
likely the 1440s
Donatello, Gattamelata, ca. 1450
Equestrian Sculpture of
Marcus Aurelius, c. 173-176 C.E.
Extra Images
Fra Angelico
The Crucifixion
1420-23
Botticelli, Venus and Mars, 1485
Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478-1482
Donatello
Saint Mark
1411-1413