Renaissance Art

1. Art Work at the Uffizi Gallery
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2. Inside Hallway

3. Construction
 The building of the palace began in 1560 by
Giorgio Vasari for Cosmo I’ De Medeci as offices
for the Florentine magistrates (judges). That’s how
it got the name Uffizi “offices”. Alfonso Parigi
and Bernado Buontalenti continiued Vasari’s
design and ended in 1581.
 They constructed a courtile ( inner courtyard ) so
long and narrow that opens to the Arno River
through a Doric screen that a articulates space
without blocking it. The first “streetscape” in
Europe.
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4. Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke
of Tuscany
 Cosimo came to power at 17, when Duke Alessandro de' Medici was assassinated in 1537, as Alessandro's
only male heir (see right)
 Among his many accomplishments was the creation of the Uffizi, originally intended to house the government
 He also finished the Pitti Palace as a home for the Medici and created the magnificent Boboli Gardens behind the Pitti. He was a great patron
of the arts.
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5. Inside the Uffizi
 45 different rooms vary from sculptures to paintings on canvas
 The niches in the piers were filled with sculptures of famous artists
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6. Renaissance: Greek and Roman
Style was Re-popularized
• Greek and Roman art has inspired and has influenced
many artists throughout history
• Common Subjects: human form (the male considered
ideal or more beautiful), gods in human form, heroism,
expressive faces, and geometric shapes (symmetry)
• Focus on the mind (education), body (health and
fitness), and spirit (religious, holy)
• David, 1501-04, Michelangelo Buonarroti,
Marble, based upon David v. Goliath
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7. 1504 Raphael Santi
(1483-1520)
Portrait of Elisabetta
Gonzaga
* Titles of artwork
are capitalized and
underlined

8. Michelangelo
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
- The Holy Family with St. John the Baptist. c.
1504-1506.
Also known as the Doni Tondo or the Holy Family
commissioned for the marriage of the merchant Angelo
Doni and Maddalena Strozzi
Portrait of Michelangelo by Jacopino del Conte (after
1535) at the age of 60

9. 1510
• Giorgione
• (1477/78-
1510)
• Portrait of a
Gentleman
in Armor. c.
1510. Oil on
canvas

10. 1517
• Andrea del
Sarto
1486-1531
• Madonna
delle
Arpie
(Madonna
of the
Harpies -
angels)
• Note the
triangular
design

11. 1517
• Antonio Correggi 1489-1534
• The Rest on the Flight to Egypt with Saint Francis
• The scene is a legend added to a historical event.
History: Jesus and parents fled to Egypt for refuge on
being warned that Herod the Great was seeking to kill
baby Jesus (jealous of any threat to his power).
Legend: the Holy Child ordered the trees to bend down
so that Joseph could take fruit from them.

12. 1518
• Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538)
• The Martyrdom of St.
Florian
• Florian was a Roman soldier, in
what is now Austria, who converted
to Christianity and martyred in 304.
At the time Christianity was
outlawed in Roman lands. Florian
was thrown into the river Ems with
a millstone tied around his neck.
Passers recovered his body which
was watched over by an eagle until
taken away for burial.

13. 1518
• Raphael (1483-1520)
• Portrait of Pope Leo X with
Cardinals Giulio de' Medici
and Luigi de' Rossi
• The ball on top of the Pope's
chair symbolizes the abacus
balls (for their earning a lot of
wealth) of the Medici Family.
• Martin Luther (right) had
challenged papal authority--Leo
X's (10ths) method of selling
indulgences (forgiveness of
sins).

14. 1519
• Pontormo [Italian
Mannerist
(expressive) Painter],
1494-ca.1556
• Cosimo il
Vecchio de
Medici
• The laurel branch was a
symbol used also by his
heirs.

15. 1528
• Lucas Cranach
detto il vecchio
(Kronach, 1472
– Weimar, 16
ottobre 1553)
• Adam and
Eve
• Oil on panel
“And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field
which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman,
'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the
garden?'”, Genesis 3:1. (*Cranach painted a snake,
although the word “snake” is not used in Genesis.)

16. 1537
• Titian
Portrait of
Eleonora
Gonzaga
Della
Rovere.
1536-1537.
Oil on
canvas.

17. 1538
• Titian
• (1488/90 -
1576)
Portrait of
Francesco
Maria della
Rovere, Duke
of Urbino. c.
1536-1538. Oil on
canvas

18. 1540
• Agnolo di
Cosimo (1503
-1572), usually
known as Il
Bronzino,
• Portrait of
Lucretia
Pucci
Panciatichi

19. 1545
• Agnolo
Bronzino
• 1503-1572
Portrait of
Cosimo I
de' Medici
in Armor
1545-1559
Oil on panel

20. 1545
• Bronzino, Agnolo
(Agnolo di
Cosimo)
(1503-72).
Florentine
Mannerist painter,
the pupil and
adopted son of
Pontormo
• Giovanni de
Medici as a
Child

21. 1555
• Paolo Veronese
(1528 – April 19,
1588) was an
Italian painter of
the Renaissance in
Venice
• Isopod and
Adriano da
Porto

22. 1597
• Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio, (1571 –1610)
• Baroque: bold, curved,
elaborate
• Bacchus (The Roman god of
wine. According to Ovid's
Metamorphoses, Philemon
and Bacchus had lived out
their long kind lives. Asked
what divine favor they
wanted, the couple said that
they wished to be turned into
intertwining trees.

23. 1598 Caravaggio Medusa

24. 1600
• El Greco
• St. John the
Evangelist
and St.
Francis

25. 1604 Caravaggio’s
Sacrifice of Isaac
The painting shows the
moment when Abraham,
about to sacrifice his son
Isaac in obedience to God's
command, is stayed by an
angel who offers him a ram
in Isaac's place.

26. 1627 Peter Paul Rubens’
Henry IV (4th) at the Battle of
Ivry

27. 1634
• Rembrandt
• Leiden 1606-
Amsterdam
1669
• Self-Portrait. c.
1634. Oil on
panel.

28. 1717
• Anna Maria Luisa in
The Electress
Palatine in
Mourning Dress
by Jan Frans van
Douven, 1717. She
points to the portrait of
Johann Wilhelm's
remains, adorned with
the Palatine regalia, in
the milieu.

29. • The Doge's Palace with the Piazza di San
Marco Painted by Giovanni Antonio Canal
Canaletto, Dimensions 32.68 inches wide x
16.14 inches high
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30. • Portrait of a Young
Man
• by Pietro Perugino,
1495
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31. • Portrait of
Giovanni de
Medici as a Child
by Agnolo Bronzino,
1545
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32. • Martin Luther
by Lucas Cranach
• Cranach was a
painter, printmaker,
and court painter to
the Electors of Saxony,
became a close friend
of Martin Luther. Tried
to convey Lutheran
religious concerns in art.
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33. Adoration of the Magi, by DÜRER, Albrecht 1504 Oil on
wood, 100 x 114 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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34. • Sandro Botticelli, 1486, Type: tempera on
canvas, Dimensions (67.9 in × 109.6 in),
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The Birth of Venus

35. Portrait of a Man with the Medal of Cosimo
de Medici the Elder, Sandro Botticelli, Year 1474-1475,
Type: Tempera on panel, Dimensions (226 in × 17 in)
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36. Still-life by Portuguese painter Josefa de
Óbidos, 1676. Her father was also a
painter. “Still lifes” depict objects:
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flowers, food, coins, pipes, etc.

37. The Uffizi
Florence, Italy
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