Art History -Chap 17- Images

Battista Sforza and Federico do Montefeltro; Piero della Francesca; 1472-73

• Painted in tempera in light colors
  
• Resembles Flemish painting in detail and luminosity
  
• Figures portrayed in strict profile, as remote from the viewer as icons
  
  • Profile does not show Federico's missing right eye or broken nose
    
• Emphasized underlying geometry of forms
  
• River in Federico's panel leads the eye to the background
  

  
  

  Primavera; Sandro Botticelli; 1482
  

• Painted with Neoplatonic ideas interwoven with estoteric references to classical sources
  
• Painted on theme of love in fertility because it was painted at the time of Medici wedding
  
• Venus is framed by arching trees in the center, above her is her son Cupid
  
• Right: Flora, goddess of flowers; Chloris, nymph; Zephyr, Wind god
  
• Left: Three Graces; Mercury, messenger god
  
  • He is protecting Venus from a dark storm cloud
    

    
    

  The Birth of Venus; Sandra Botticelli; 1484-86
  

• Based on Antique statue of Venus
  
• She was born of sea foam and Zephyr and Chloris
  
• She is presented here modestly but still with sexuality
  

  
  

  Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter; Perugino; 1482
  

• Christ giving the keys to the kingdom of heaven to apostle Peter
  
• Linear perspective
  
• The paved stones provide a geometric grid for perspectival recession
  
• Vertically divided by open space between Christ and Peter
  
• Horizontally divided by freize of large figures and open space
  
• Triumphant arches are at either side of the square with a church in the cetner
  

  
  

  The Expulsion for Paradise; Masaccio; 1427
  

• Fresco
  
• Represented the mass of bodies formed by their underlying structure
  
• A more generalized but focused illumination
  
• More focused with the psychology of individual humans who have been cast mourning and protesting from Eden
  

  
  

  Adam and Eve; Jan van Eyck; 1432
  

• Oil on wood
  
• Captured every detail of the surfaces of the figures
  
• Used intense, single-source light
  
• Traditional Christian wrongdoing and on the forbidden fruit in eve's hand
  
• At the top of the panel is Cain killing Abel
  

  
  

  Annunciation; Fra Angelico; 1441-45
  

• Fresco painted on monastic cell; reflects location
  
• Depicts Gabriel telling Mary that she is with child
  
• Natural light comes from the left, a supernatural glow comes from Gabriel's face and hands
  
• Linear perspective
  

  
  

  Frescos in Camera Picta; Andrea Mantegna; 1465-74
  

• Characterized by the use of perspective
  
• Di sotto in su (seen from directly below) used on domed ceiling
  
• Room appears to be open to a cloud-filled oculus
  
• Puttis, four women, and one Arab stare down from the oculus opening
  

  
  

  Tribute Money; Masaccio; 1427
  

• Jesus and his disciples are the central focus
  
• Linear perspective with atmospheric perspective in the background
  
• Fresco
  
• Gold leaf halo around the head of Christ and the apostles
  
• Divided into three different scenes; tax collector asking for money, Peter fishing, and Peter paying the tax collector