Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600

Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600 / Loren Partridge.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Partridge, Loren W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Art, Renaissance > Italy > Florence.
Art, Italian > Italy > Florence.
Art and society > Italy > Florence > History > 15th century.
Art and society > Italy > Florence > History > 16th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Renaissance
  • Humanism
  • Independent portraits
  • Perspective
  • Narrative
  • The human body
  • Classicizing architecture
  • The status of artists
  • Pre-Renaissance Florence
  • Roman and early Medieval Florence
  • People's government
  • The priorate
  • The Priors' Palace
  • Piazza della Signoria and Priors' Loggia
  • Final circuit of walls and Florentine expansion
  • The Cathedral and Or San Michele
  • I. Florence under the Albizzi and the Medici, 1400-1494
  • 1. Civic architecture and urbanism
  • Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital
  • Piazza della SS. Annunziata
  • 2. Freestanding public sculpture
  • Cathedral buttress figures
  • Donatello's marble David
  • Or San Michele, I
  • Donatello's St. Mark
  • Nanni di Banco's Four crowned saints
  • Ghiberti's St. John the Baptist
  • Donatello's St. George
  • Donatello's St. Louis of Toulouse
  • Campanile
  • Donatello's Abraham and Isaac
  • Donatello's Zuccone
  • Or San Michele, II
  • Verrocchio's Christ and doubting Thomas
  • 3. Ecclesiastical architecture
  • The cathedral dome
  • S. Lorenzo
  • The old sacristy
  • The church
  • S. Marco
  • The church and monastery
  • The library
  • S. Spirito
  • The façade of S. Maria Novella
  • 4. The Baptistery doors
  • Competition reliefs
  • Brunelleschi
  • Ghiberti
  • Ghiberti's first doors
  • Annunciation
  • Ghiberti's Gates of paradise
  • Creation of Adam and Eve, Temptation and fall, Expulsion from Paradise
  • Jacob and Esau
  • Solomon and Sheba
  • 5. Altarpieces and chapels
  • S. Maria degli Angeli : Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the virgin
  • S. Maria Novella, I : Masaccio's Trinity
  • S. Maria del Carmine : Masaccio and Masolino's Brancacci Chapel
  • Temptation and fall and Expulsion from Paradise
  • Tribute money
  • Peter heals with his shadow and The death of Ananias
  • S. Lorenzo, I : old sacristy
  • Buggiano's sarcophagus
  • Donatello's decoration
  • S. Marco : high altar and cells
  • Fra Angelico's S. Marco altarpiece
  • Fra Angelico's Annunciation
  • SS. Annunziata, I : Castagno's Trinity with St. Jerome
  • S. Miniato al Monte : the Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel
  • North wall
  • East wall
  • West wall
  • S. Lorenzo, II
  • Verrocchio's tomb of Cosimo il Vecchio
  • Donatello's bronze pulpits
  • Verrocchio's tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici, old sacristy
  • SS. Annunziata, II : Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo's St. Sebastian
  • S. Trinita : Ghirlandaio's Sassetti Chapel
  • Confirmation of the rule of St. Francis
  • St. Francis resurrects a boy who fell from a palace window in 1266
  • Nativity-- S. Maria Novella, II : Filippino Lippi's Strozzi Chapel
  • St. John raises Drusiana
  • St. Philip exorcises a dragon
  • 6. Refectories
  • S. Apollonia : Castagno's Last supper
  • S. Marco : Ghirlandaio's Last supper
  • 7. Palaces
  • The Medici Palace
  • The Rucellai Palace
  • The Pitti Palace, I
  • The Strozzi Palace
  • 8. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, I
  • Uccello's Battle of S. Romano
  • Ghirlandaio's Sala dei Gigli
  • 9. Palace chapels : the Medici Palace
  • Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi
  • Filippo Lippi's Nativity
  • 10. Freestanding palace sculpture : the Medici Palace
  • Donatello's bronze David
  • Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes
  • 11. Wedding chests and birth trays
  • Scheggia's Reconciliation between the Romans and Sabines
  • Masaccio's Lying-in of a Florentine lady
  • 12. Spalliera painting
  • Botticelli's Primavera
  • Botticelli's Nastagio degli Onesti
  • 13. Portraits
  • Uccello's Young man
  • Filippo Lippi's Lorenzo Scolari and Angiola Sapiti
  • Piero di Cosimo's Cleopatra
  • Mino da Fiesole's Piero de' Medici
  • Botticelli's Woman at a window
  • Botticelli's Man holding a medallion of Cosimo il Vecchio
  • Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci
  • 14. Devotional works
  • Donatello's Shaw Madonna
  • Filippo Lippi's Virgin and child with two angels
  • Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat
  • Michelangelo's Madonna of the Steps
  • II. Florence under the Second Republic, 1494-1512
  • 15. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, II
  • Sala Grande, I
  • Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari
  • Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina
  • 16. Freestanding public sculpture
  • Michelangelo's David
  • 17. Altarpieces
  • SS. Annunziata : Leonardo's St. Anne Cartoon
  • Palazzo Vecchio, Sala Grande : Fra Bartolomeo's St. Anne altarpiece
  • 18. Portraits
  • Leonardo's Mona Lisa
  • Raphael's portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Doni
  • 19. Devotional works
  • Michelangelo's Doni Tondo
  • Raphael's Madonna della Sedia
  • III. Florence under the Medici popes, 1513-1534
  • 20. Civic architecture and urbanism
  • Piazza della SS. Annunziata
  • 21. Freestanding palace sculpture : the Medici Palace
  • Bandinelli's Orpheus with Cerberus
  • 22. Chapels and libraries : S. Lorenzo
  • Michelangelo's new sacristy
  • Michelangelo's Laurentian library
  • 23. Altarpieces and devotional works
  • S. Francesco : Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies
  • Rosso's Moses defending the daughters of Jethro
  • S. Felicità : Pontormo's Deposition
  • 24. Portraits
  • Sarto's Man with a book
  • Sarto's Woman with Petrarch's poems
  • Rosso's Yong man
  • IV. Florence under the Medici dukes, 1531-1600
  • 25. Earlier freestanding public sculpture
  • Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus
  • 26. Palace chapels : Palazzo Vecchio
  • Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora
  • Altarpiece
  • Altar wall and St. Michael
  • Crossing of the Red Sea and St. Francis
  • 27. Palaces : Pitti Palace, II, and Boboli Gardens
  • 28. Churches and church decoration
  • Vasari's renovation of S. Croce and S. Maria Novella
  • S. Croce : Vasari's Doubting Thomas
  • 29. Civic architecture and urbanism
  • Tasso's Mercato Nuovo
  • Vasari's Uffizi
  • 30. Later freestanding public sculpture
  • Cellini's Perseus
  • Ammannati's Neptune fountain
  • Danti's Rigor, equity, and Cosimo I as Augustus
  • Giambologna's Cosimo I in armor
  • Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines
  • Giambologna's Equestrian monument to Cosimo I
  • 31. Portraits
  • Bronzino's Ugolino Martelli
  • Bronzino's Cosimo I as Orpheus
  • Bronzino's Cosimo I in armor
  • Bronzino's Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni
  • Vasari's Apotheosis of Cosimo I
  • 32. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, III
  • Salviati's Sala di Udienza
  • Bandinelli and Vasari's Sala Grande, II
  • Genealogy of the Medici family
  • Timeline
  • Glossary
  • Artists' biographies
  • Selected bibliography
  • List of illustrations and picture credits
  • Index.

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