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