UNIT SIX

P64 Early Northern Renaissance: Robert Campin and the Limbourg Brothers
Theme: Innovation and Experimentation                              Gardners: Chapter 20
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece). Workshop of Robert Campin. 1427– 1432 C.E. Oil on wood. (V: Northern Renaissance, oil painting, Annunciation, donors, triptych, disguised symbolism, Gabriel, St. Joseph)

P65 Early Northern and Italian Renaissance: Jan van Eyck and Piero della Francesca
Theme: Gender Roles and Relationships                         Gardners: Chapters 20-21
The Arnolfini Portrait. Jan van Eyck. c. 1434 C.E. Oil on wood. (V: Burgundian Netherlands, glazing, St. Margaret, betrothal)

P66 Early Italian Renaissance: Donatello and the Medici
Theme: Images of Power                                                           Gardners: Chapter 21
David. Donatello. c. 1440–1460 C.E. Bronze. (V: Italian Renaissance, Medici, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, David, Goliath, Mercury, petasus, Ganymede, St. Michael the Archangel, Antinous)

P67 Early Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi and Alberti
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition                     Gardners: Chapter 21
Pazzi Chapel. Basilica di Santa Croce. Florence, Italy. Filippo Brunelleschi (architect). c. 1429–1461 C.E. Masonry. (V: pietra serena, tondo, chapter house, loggia)
Palazzo Rucellai. Florence, Italy. Leon Battista Alberti (architect). c. 1450 C.E. Stone, masonry. (V: palazzo, cornice, stringcourses, opus reticulatum, pilasters, piano nobile)

P68 Early Italian Renaissance: Fra Filippo Lippi and Botticelli
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition                     Gardners: Chapter 21
Madonna and Child with Two Angels. Fra Filippo Lippi. c. 1465 C.E. Tempera on wood. (V: atmospheric perspective, linear (painting) style)
Birth of Venus. Sandro Botticelli. c. 1484–1486 C.E. Tempera on canvas. (V: humanism, Neoplatonism, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, Zephyrus, Chloris, St. John the Baptist, Medici Venus)

P69 High Italian Renaissance: Leonardo’s Last Supper
Theme: Innovation and Experimentation                              Gardners: Chapter 22
Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1494–1498 C.E. Oil and tempera. (V: High Renaissance, Last Supper, refectory, linear perspective, Ludovico Sforza, Judas, John the Beloved, Trinity) 

P70 Early and High Italian Renaissance: Perugino and Raphael
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition              Gardners: Chapters 21-22
School of Athens. Raphael. 1509–1511 C.E. Fresco. (V: Stanza della Segnatura, Julius II, Plato, Aristotle, Timaeus, Nichomachean Ethics, Pythagoras, Euclid, Diogenes, Heraclitus, Sodoma, transubstantiation)

P71 High Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition                     Gardners: Chapter 22
Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes. Vatican City, Italy. Michelangelo. Ceiling frescoes: c. 1508–1512 C.E.; altar frescoes: c. 1536–1541 C.E. Fresco. (V: sibyl, prophet, grisaille, ignudi, Belvedere Torso, Drunkenness of Noah, Zechariah, St. Bartholomew, St. Peter, Charon, Minos, Sack of Rome, attribute)

P72 Venetian Renaissance and Mannerism: Titian and Pontormo
Theme: Innovation and Experimentation                              Gardners: Chapter 22
Entombment of Christ. Jacopo da Pontormo. 1525–1528 C.E. Oil on wood. (V: Mannerism, figura serpentinata)
Venus of Urbino. Titian. c. 1538 C.E. Oil on canvas. (V: Venetian Renaissance, cassone, courtesan, sacred and profane love)

P73 Northern Renaissance: Bosch, Grünewald, Cranach, and Holbein
Theme: Death and the Afterlife                                               Gardners: Chapter 23
Isenheim altarpiece. Matthias Grünewald. c. 1512–1516 C.E. Oil on wood. (V: polyptych, predella, St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Sebastian, St. Anthony, ergotism)
Allegory of Law and Grace. Lucas Cranach the Elder. c. 1530 C.E. Woodcut and letterpress. (V: Martin Luther, Erasmus, Protestant Reformation, Ten Commandments, woodcut, Dance of Death)

P74 Northern Renaissance: Dürer
Theme: Humanism and the Classical Tradition                     Gardners: Chapter 23
Adam and Eve. Albrecht Dürer. 1504 C.E. Engraving. (V: Apollo Belvedere, Vitruvius, four humors, sanguine, melancholy, saturnine, engraving, burin)

P75 Northern Renaissance: Bruegel
Theme: Man and the Natural World                                        Gardners: Chapter 23
Hunters in the Snow. Pieter Bruegel the Elder. 1565 C.E. Oil on wood. (V: panorama, Schedel’s World Chronicle)