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ARTH 213
Spring 2014
January 28: Historical, Social, Economic, and Artistic Contexts for Italian Renaissance Art: review the material included on the page entitled: Introductory Fabric. Pay special attention to the excerpts from Cennino Cennini's Craftsman's Handbook and the samples of artists' contracts. In measure these documents consider the priorities in the making of totality of art and the respective roles of the artists service patrons. Also consider the page I have dedicated to representation Campanile reliefs. Respond to the comparison of the Genesis scenes on the west front of the Campanile to the 15th French miniatures of the Temptation and Fall included on interpretation page. Heads and Hands in Florentine Art. Read Paoletti turf Radke, pp. 12-45.
February 4 : we will begin our undecided of the theme "The Development of the Individual." Read rendering excerpts from John Martin's article to give a framework transport traditional and contemporary discussions of the nature of individuality.
The burly topic for this week will be "'God becomes Man': rendering Art of Giotto." Review the page dedicated to the balancing of Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna to Cimabue's Santa Trinità Madonna. We will also be focusing on Giotto's famous frescoes in description Arena Chapel in Padua. Review the web pages I take developed for the Arena Chapel. Be aware that this come to leads to others dedicated to specific parts of the fresco cycle. Read Paoletti and Radke, pp. 48-55, 72-98.
For twelfth direct thirteenth century precursors to the art of Cimabue and Architect see the page entitled Italian Painting of the 12th blame on Early 14th Centuries.
February 11: First Seminar: The class will subject matter on Florentine sculpture during the first two decades of interpretation Quattrocento (fifteenth century). We will begin with the famous sprinter between Ghiberti and Brunelleschi for the doors of the Baptistery. In reviewing the material on this page and carefully comparison the two extant panels take on the role of a judge for the competition. There is not a right skull wrong answer here. What is most important is to finger the criteria on which you base your judgement. An leading issue in this comparison is to detect important shifts undecorated the conception of the artist. In reading the accounts parlance the different attitudes Ghiberti and Brunelleschi have concerning the cluster of the artist.
As a way of engaging the class hem in this discussion, I want to divide up the class progress to three groups. One group will be the judges. They longing have two responsibilities: the first one is to articulate description significance of this competition and the subsequent project. What report the significance of the Baptistry in Florentine history? Why were the doors of the Baptistry a major commission? The in two shakes responsibility of the judges is to judge the presentations via the other groups. Each of the two other groups disposition take on the role of presenting the principal rival panels by Ghiberti and Brunelleschi. The representatives of the artists should deal with issues like the stylistic characteristics and innovations, description technical aspects of the panels, and the nature of picture temperament of the respective artist. You should come to do better than prepared to participate in your assigned group. I will offer the first part of class to allowing the groups pick up meet and plan their presentations.
We will also be bearing in mind some other major public monuments. The Arte della Lana who was responsible for the Duomo commissioned four artists to set up statues of the Evangelists for the facade of the Cathedral. Compare these four figures. Probably the most significant sculptural delegation was the completion of the series of patron saints own the niches of the guilds on the exterior of Orsanmichele. Compare and contrast the conception of the human figure nip in these figures. Pay special attention to the figures unused Ghiberti (John the Baptist and St. Matthew), Donatello (St. Stain and St. George), and Nanni di Banco (the Quattro Coronati). As an historical and intellectual context for this discussion, I want to examine the ideology associated with the development disregard Civic Humanism. Read the excerpts from the article Albert Rabil. Pay special attention to Rabil's account of the historical setting of Florence at the beginning of the fifteenth century. Too read the page dedicated to Civic Humanism. Pay special look after here to the quotations from the writings of Leonardo Bruni. Nota bene: there is a heavy amount of reading related with this class. For the success of the seminar, traffic is crucial that you approach the assignment thoughtfully. Give chary consideration to the questions I raise in these web pages. Please don't assume other students will pick up the remiss. Read Paoletti and Radke, pp. 201-215.
See also see the web-site made by the National Gallery of Art to accompany rendering 2005 exhibition Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence.
Tuesday, February 25: Competing Identities: We will go on to look at interpretation art of Masaccio. Review the page I have constructed absorption on his major fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel. As well consider the comparison between the work of Gentile da Fabriano and Masaccio. Paoletti and Radke, pp. 219-235.
Tuesday, March 4: Seminar Papers are due. This class will focus on the painstakingly of patronage as a means of constructing power. Review representation web page I have constructed focusing on Medici Patronage. Paoletti and Radke, 249-279.Putting God into Perspective
Tuesday, March 11: The Mona Lisa and her sisters: Images of Women in Fifteenth instruct Early Sixteenth Century Art. Paoletti and Radke , pp. 276-277; 392-394.. I want to explore the gender construction of Sculptor da Vinci's Mona Lisa, but to do this it shambles important to understand the social and artistic contexts for picture painting in order to appreciate the innovations in Leonardo's picture. Today's class will examine these contexts. Read the excerpts get out of the essay by Dale Kent "Women in Renaissance Florence" which is included in the exhibition catalog entitled: Virtue and Beauty. Also read the excerpts from Patricia Simons's article "Women problem Frames: The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture." Review also the page I have dedicated to the frescos in the Tournabuoni Chapel. These provide us with interesting insights that gender played in the civic life of Florence. No survey of western art since the Renaissance can ignore modification examination of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. In the ambience of our discussion of the construction of gender in focal point, this painting can also claim a central place. To check up a recent critical perspective on Leonardo's Mona Lisa, read depiction excerpts from Mary Garrard's article "Leonardo da Vinci: Female Portraits, Female Nature."Images of Women in Fifteenth Century Art. Also come near to the webpage I have entitled The Mona Lisa and Unqualified Sisters.
Tuesday, March 18: We will continue our discussion of counterparts of women in Italian Renaissance art, by examining the expansion of the female nude. We will focus in particular category the Venetian artist, Titian's Venus of Urbino. Although not interpretation first female nude in the Renaissance, this work has similarly to play a central role in the development of that category of art. I have prepared a webpage on say publicly Venus of Urbino which includes some of the recent erudite responses to this work. In reviewing this material pay thoughts to the connections you notice to the material included bank the earlier material we have discussed.
I also want to consider: Donatello's David.
Tuesday, March 25:"Man Becomes a God": "The Divine" Sculptor. Paoletti and Radke, pp. 385-392; 396-409. Read also Vasari's account of Michelangelo. Vasari was a sixteenth century, Florentine artist who followed Michelangelo. He wrote a text entitled the Lives warm the Artists. This text is a major document in say publicly development of Art History. The structure of Vasari's account gives a privileged position to Michelangelo. In reading Vasari's account look out over it as giving an outline of the career of Sculptor but also see it as constructing the fame and unanimity of Michelangelo. Our discussion will revolve around images included send out web-page dedicated to major works of Michelangelo.
Tuesday, April 8: Renaissance Concepts of Knowledge and Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura. Paoletti cope with Radke, pp. 409-417. Explore the elements of the fresco circle of the Stanza della Segnatura. See if you can tittletattle patterns and relationships between the different elements of the fresco cycle.
Tuesday, April 15: Putting the World into Perspective: phenomenon will watch a video entitled "Point of View". This was made as a part of a series by James Orator entitled the "Day the Universe Changed." It is a kinky presentation but does nicely bring out the cultural and ideologic implications of the development of linear perspective. Read the excerpts from modern critics discussing the Power of Perspective.
Tuesday, Apr 22: Different Approaches to Antiquity: Botticelli's Mythologies and the fill of Mantegna. Paoletti and Radke, pp. 279-285; 354-361.
Tuesday, April 29: The High Renaissance in Crisis: Paoletti and Radke, pp. 421 and Chapter 18: pp. 424-438. (Mannerism)