1. Early Renaissance
in Italy
(1400-1490)

2. Introduction
 Focus on history of art in Early Italian
Renaissance
 It was a very remarkable period of time
 It would lead into a period called High
Renaissance
 Important in our visual literacy

3. City State
 Spirit of
competition
 Importance
of humans

4. 1.1Florence

6. Medici Family
 The biggest accomplishments of the Medici
were in the sponsorship
of art and architecture, mainly early and High
Renaissance art and architecture.

7. Medici Family
The Medici were responsible for the majority
of Florentine art during their reign. Their
money was significant because during this
period, artists generally only made their
works when they received commissions in
advance.

8. 2. Paintings
Art based on heaven to being based on the
natural world
 Inspired by humanism
Appeared 3D to the human eyes

9. Paolo Uccello
1397 – 1475
Italian painter
Notable for his pioneering work on visual
perspective in art
He used perspective
 His style is best described as idiosyncratic

10. Paolo Uccello

11. Paolo Uccello
Saint George and the
Dragon c. 1470

12. Paolo Uccello
Battle of San Romano

13. Fra Angelico
2.2
 c. 1395 – February 18, 1455
 Early Italian Renaissance painter
 "Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the
Angelic' “
Works within the framework of the Early
Renaissance style embody a serene religious
attitude and reflect a strong Classical
influence.

14. 2.2 Fra Angelico

15. Fra Angelico
2.2
The Last Judgment,1425-1430

16. Fra Angelico
2.2
The Virgin of the Annunciation,1437-1446

17. Masaccio
2.3
 Italian: [maˈzattʃo]; December 21, 1401 –
autumn 1428)
 The first great painter of
the Quattrocento period of the Italian
Renaissance
 He was one of the first to use linear
perspective in his painting, employing
techniques such as vanishing point in art for
the first time

18. Masaccio
2.3
Masaccio, Self-Portrait

19. Masaccio
2.3
San Governable Triptych ,1422

20. Masaccio
2.3
Crucifixion,1426

21. Masaccio
2.3
Madonna and Child with St. Anne ,1424

22. Fra Filippo Lippi
2.4
 1406-1469
Pupil of Masaccio
 Recorded as a painter in 1430
 Fra Filippo Lippi's later painting style is
linear, lyrical, and decorative, a product
of his own fantastic imagination.
 Fra Filippo Lippi was more interested in
nature and landscape depiction

23. Fra Filippo Lippi
2.4
Self-portrait

24. 2.4Fra Filippo Lippi
Portrait of a Man and Woman at a
Casement (c. 1440)

25. Fra Filippo Lippi
2.4
Madonna with Child Enthroned

26. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
 c 1445-1510
Italian Painter
Used oil to make paintings of figures
Figures of his work tended to be of sculptural
roundness and strength
Used mythological figures in his art work

27. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
Painted his self - from his painting the
“Adoration of Magi”

28. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
Adoration of the Magi is a painting by
the Italian Renaissance master Sandro
Botticelli, dating from 1475 or 1476. It is
housed in the Uffizi of Florence.

29. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
The birth of Venus, 1486

30. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
The Mystical Nativity ,1500-1501

31. Sandro Botticelli
2.5
Primavera ,1482

32. Pietro Perugino
2.6
 1445-1524
 Early Renaissance Painter of the Umbrian
school
 His style is characterized by dazzling colors,
spatial clarity of his compositions and a
harmonious union between figure and
landscape.

33. 2.6Pietro Perugino

34. Pietro Perugino
2.6
The Delivery of the Keys fresco, 1481–
1482, Sistine Chapel, Rome.

35. Pietro Perugino
2.6
Gonfalone with Pietà, c. 1472

36. Domenico Ghirlandaio
1480
2.7
 (1449-94)
 Ghirlandaio had always used a slightly
anachronistic approach, placing portraits of
contemporaries alongside religious figures.
 His settings are pastiches of classicizing
fictions and real places.

37. Domenico Ghirlandaio
2.7
self-portrait

38. Domenico Ghirlandaio
2.7
An Old Man and his Grandson(ca.
1490) Louvre, Paris

39. Domenico Ghirlandaio
2.7
Portrait of Giovanna
Tornabuoni(1488). Thyssen-Bornemisza
Museum, Madrid; formerly in. theMorgan
Library

40. Domenico Ghirlandaio
2.7
The Crossing of the Red Sea
between 1481 and 1482

41. 2.8 Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca ( 1415– 1492) was a
painter of the Early Renaissance
Appreciated for his art.
 His painting was characterized by its
serene humanism, its use of geometric forms
and perspective.

42. Piero della Francesca
2.8
A self-portrait, detail
from Resurrection

43. Piero della Francesca
2.8
The Baptism of Christ,1450

44. Piero della Francesca
2.8
The Flagellation of Christ ,1455–1460

45. Piero dellaFrancesca
2. 8
The Montefeltro Altarpiece,1472

46. Andrea Mantegna
2.9
 born 1431-died 1506
Northern Early Italian Renaissancepainter
and engraver best known for painting heroic
figures depicted in sharpperspective through
the use of dramaticforeshortening.
Andrea Mantegna often placed the subject of
his work high up in the picture plane to give
the illusion that the viewer is looking up from
down below.

47. 2.9Andrea Mantegna
St. James led to his execution c. 1455

48. 2.9 Andrea Mantegna
St. Sebastian,1456-1459

49. 3. Architecture
Mathematics gave an insight into Classical
methods of proportion and structure
Defined by flat surfaces and strong lines
 Important part symmetry
Palazzi

50. Filippo Brunelleschi
2.10
(Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]; 1377 – April
15, 1446)
One of the foremost architects and engineers
of the Italian Renaissance.
He is perhaps most famous for his discovery
of perspective

51. 2.10Filippo Brunelleschi
Presumed depiction in Resurrection of the
Son of Theophilus, Masaccio

52. 2.10Filippo Brunelleschi
1436 Basilica of Saint Mary of the Flower

53. 2.10Filippo Brunelleschi
Section of the dome

54. 2.11Leon Battista Alberti
Nave of the Santo Spirito, 1441–1481

55. Leon Battista Alberti
2.11
(February 14, 1404 – April 20, 1472)
Italian author,
artist, architect, poet,priest, linguist, philosop
her, cryptographer and general Renaissance
humanist polymath.
He is often characterized as an "architect“.

56. 2.11Leon Battista Alberti
Self-portrait

57. 2.11Leon Battista Alberti
Tempio Malatestiano,1450-1468

58. 2.11Leon Battista Alberti
Palazzo Rucellai,1446-1451

59. 4.Sculpture
Early Renaissance sculptors took inspiration
directly from Classical Roman and Greek
sculptor.
 They imbued their free-standing figures with
a range of emotions and filled them with
energy and thought.

60. Lorenzo Ghiberti
2.12
Lorenzo Ghiberti (Italian: [loˈrɛntso giˈbɛrti])
(1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di
Bartolo, was anFlorentine
 Italian sculptor of the Early Renaissance
Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he
established an important workshop for
sculpture in metal.

61. 2.12Lorenzo Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti on Gates of
Paradise,Baptistery, Florence

62. 2.12Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gates of Paradise

63. 2.12Lorenzo Ghiberti
Adam and eve

64. 2.12Lorenzo Ghiberti
In Flagellation, one of the panels on the North Doors

65. Donatello
2.13
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 –
December 13, 1466), better known
as Donatello,
 An early Renaissance Italian sculptor
Known for his work in bas-relief

66. 2.13Donatello
Donatello's statue outside of
the Uffizi Galleria.

67. 2.13Donatello
Gattamelata,1453

68. 2.13Donatello
bronze statue of David (circa 1440s)

69. Andrea del Verrocchio
2.14
Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian
pronunciation: [anˈdrɛa del verˈrɔkkjo]
Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who
worked at the court of Lorenzo de'
Medici in Florence in the early renaissance.
His greatest importance was as a sculptor

70. 2.14Andrea del Verrocchio
Self-portrait

71. 2.14Andrea del Verrocchio
Christ and Saint Thomas,1467-1483

72. 2.14 Andrea del Verrocchio
Christ and St. Thomas (Orsanmichele,
Florence)

73. 2.14Andrea del Verrocchio
Winged boy with Dolphin
(Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)