History of Italian Renaissance Art / Edition 6

by Frederick Hartt, David G. Wilkins, David Wilkins

Overview

This book focuses on works of art, their creators, and the circumstances affecting their creation. This revision is designed to provide readers with a more streamlined approach to understanding Italian Renaissance art without losing the enthusiasm and appreciation that Hartt demonstrated for this area and which earlier editions of this book conveyed so successfully. Italy and Italian Art; Duecento Art in Tuscany and Rome; Florentine Art of the Early Trecento; Sienese Art of the Early Trecento; Later Gothic Art in Tuscany and Northern Italy; The Beginnings of Renaissance Architecture; Gothic and Renaissance in Tuscan Sculpture; Gothic and Renaissance in Florentine Painting; The Heritage of Masaccio and the Second Renaissance Style; The Second Renaissance Style in Architecture and Sculpture; Absolute and Perfect Painting: The Second Renaissance Style; Crisis and Crosscurrents; Science, Poetry, and Prose; The Renaissance in Central Italy; Gothic and Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy; The High Renaissance in Florence; The High Renaissance in Rome; High Renaissance and Mannerism; High and Late Renaissance in Venice and on the Mainland; Michelangelo and the Maniera.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131882478
Publisher:	Prentice Hall
Publication date:	04/03/2006
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.34(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

The late Frederick Hartt was one of the most distinguished art historians of the twentieth century. A student of Berenson, Schapiro, and Friedlaender, he taught for more than fifty years, influencing generations of Renaissance scholars. At the time of his death he was Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Virginia. He was a Knight of the Crown of Italy, a Knight Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, an honorary citizen of Florence, and an honorary member of the Academy of the Arts of Design, Florence, a society whose charter members included Michelangelo and the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.

Hartt authored, among other works, Florentine Art under Fire (1949); Botticelli (1952); Giulio Romano (1958); Love in Baroque Art (1964); The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal (1964); three volumes on the painting, sculpture, and drawings of Michelangelo (1964, 1969, 1971); Donatello, Prophet of Modern Vision (1974); Michelangelo's Three Pietàs (1975); and the monumental Art: A History o f Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, now in its fourth edition (1993).

David G . Wilkins is professor emeritus of the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and former chair of the department. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Michigan in Florence and the Semester at Sea Program. He is author of Donatello (1984, with Bonnie A. Bennett); Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento (1985); The Illustrated Bartsch: "Pre-Rembrandt Etchers," vol. 53 (1985, with Kahren Arbitman); A History o f the Duquesne Club (1989, with Mark Brown and Lu Donnelly); Art Past/Art Present, a broad survey of the history of art (fifth edition, 2005, with Bernard Schultz and Katheryn M. Linduff); and The Art of the Duquesne Club (2001). He was the revising author for the fourth and fifth editions of History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1994, 2003) and co-editor of The Search for a Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1996, with Rebecca L. Wilkins) and Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy (2001 with Sheryl E. Reiss). He was editor of The Collins Big Book of Art (2005). In 2005 he also received the College Art Association’s national award for Distinguished Teaching in Art History.

Table of Contents

1 PRELUDE: ITALY AND ITALIAN ART 17

The Role of Antiquity 18

The Cities 20

The Guilds and the Status of the Artist 24

The Artist at Work 25

The Products of the Painter’s Bottega 26

The Practice of Drawing 27

The Practice of Painting 28

Creating a Tempera Painting 28

Creating a Fresco Painting 30

Creating an Oil Painting 32

The Practice of Sculpture 32

The Practice of Architecture 34

The Practice of History and of Art History 35

The Practice of Art History: Giorgio Vasari 36

Part One

The Late Middle Ages

2 DUECENTO ART IN TUSCANY AND ROME 39

Painting in Pisa 40

Painting in Lucca 43

Painting in Florence 44

Painting in Siena 48

Cimabue 48

Painting in Rome 52

Cavallini 55

Sculpture 57

Architecture 65

3 FLORENTINE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 73

Giotto 73

Florentine Painters after Giotto 96

Sculpture 100

4 SIENESE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 103

Duccio 103

Simone Martini 109

Pietro Lorenzetti 117

Ambrogio Lorenzetti 123

The Master of the Triumph of Death 129

Orvieto Cathedral, Lorenzo Maitani and Ugolino di Vieri 130

5 LATER GOTHIC ART IN TUSCANY AND NORTHERN ITALY 137

Mid-Trecento Painting in Florence 138

Late Gothic Painting: Agnolo Gaddi and Lorenzo Monaco 144

Painting and Sculpture in Northern Italy 148

Part Two

The Quattrocento

6 THE BEGINNINGS OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 159

The Role of the Medici Family 160

Filippo Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective 161

The Dome of Florence Cathedral 163

The Ospedale degli Innocenti 166

Brunelleschi’s Sacristy for San Lorenzo 167

San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito 168

Santa Maria degli Angeli 171

The Pazzi Chapel 171

The Medici Palace and Michelozzi di Bartolommeo 172

7 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN TUSCAN SCULPTURE 177

The Competition Panels 177

Ghiberti to 1425 179

Donatello to 1417 185

Nanni di Banco 190

Donatello (c. 1417 to c. 1435) 192

Jacopo della Quercia 196

8 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN FLORENTINE PAINTING 201

Gentile da Fabriano 201

Masolino and Masaccio 205

9 THE HERITAGE OF MASACCIO AND THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE 221

Fra Angelico 222

Fra Filippo Lippi 229

10 THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE IN ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE 239

Alberti 239

Ghiberti after 1425 250

Luca della Robbia (1399 or 1400–82) 253

Donatello (c. 1433 to c. 1455) 255

11 ABSOLUTE AND PERFECT PAINTING: THE SECOND RENAISSANCE STYLE 265

Paolo Uccello 265

Domenico Veneziano 269

Andrea del Castagno 273

A Birth Salver Celebrating Lorenzo de’ Medici 280

Piero della Francesca 281

12 CRISIS AND CROSSCURRENTS 299

Donatello after 1453 302

Desiderio da Settignano 305

Antonio Rossellino and the Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal 308

Benedetto and Giuliano da Maiano 311

Giuliano da Sangallo 314

Benozzo Gozzoli 317

Alesso Baldovinetti 318

Francesco Pesellino 321

13 SCIENCE, POETRY, AND PROSE 325

Antonio del Pollaiuolo 326

Andrea del Verrocchio 332

Renaissance Cassoni 336

Alessandro Botticelli 337

Filippino Lippi 353

Domenico del Ghirlandaio 356

14 THE RENAISSANCE IN CENTRAL ITALY 365

Siena 365

Sassetta 367

Giovanni di Paolo 368

Domenico di Bartolo 369

Matteo di Giovanni 371

Vecchietta 372

Francesco di Giorgio 372

Perugia 375

Perugino 375

Pintoricchio 379

Melozzo da Forlì 381

The Laurana Brothers 385

15 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND NORTHERN ITALY 391

Pisanello 391

Early Quattrocento Painting in Venice 395

Jacopo Bellini 396

Andrea Mantegna 398

Mantegna and Isabella d’Este 408

Gentile Bellini 411

Antonello da Messina 412

Giovanni Bellini 417

Vittore Carpaccio 424

Carlo Crivelli 428

Late Quattrocento Architecture in Venice 430

Late Quattrocento Art in Milan 433

Vincenzo Foppa 433

Filarete 434

The Certosa di Pavia 434

Quattrocento Painting in Ferrara 436

North Italian Quattrocento Sculpture 441

Part Three

The Cinquecento

16 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN FLORENCE 445

Leonardo da Vinci 445

Michelangelo to 1505 469

Raphael in Perugia and Florence 479

Fra Bartolommeo 483

Luca Signorelli 485

Piero di Cosimo 489

17 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ROME 493

Bramante 495

Michelangelo 1505 to 1516 503

Raphael in Rome 521

18 HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM 549

Michelangelo 1516 to 1533 550

Andrea del Sarto 561

Pontormo 566

Rosso Fiorentino 571

Perino del Vaga 573

Domenico Beccafumi 575

Properzia de’ Rossi 579

Correggio 580

Parmigianino 585

Pordenone 588

Defining Mannerism 589

Antonio da Sangallo the Elder 589

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger 591

Baldassare Peruzzi 594

Giulio Romano 594

19 HIGH AND LATE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND ON THE MAINLAND 599

Giorgione 599

Titian 603

Tullio Lombardo 620

Lorenzo Lotto and Paris Bordone 622

The Mainland 623

Bramantino, Dosso Dossi, Savoldo, and Moretto 624

Sofonisba Anguissola 627

Tintoretto 630

Paolo Veronese 638

Jacopo Bassano 645

Michele Sanmicheli 645

Jacopo Sansovino 647

Andrea Palladio 649

Alessandro Vittoria 655

20 MICHELANGELO AND THE MANIERA 657

Michelangelo after 1534 657

The Maniera 667

The Michelangelesque Relief 667

Benvenuto Cellini 669

Bartolommeo Ammanati 672

Giovanni Bologna 674

Bronzino and Francesco Salviati 675

Later Majolica 680

Giorgio Vasari 680

The Studiolo 682

Lavinia Fontana of Bologna 686

Postlude 687

Giacomo da Vignola 687

Federico Barocci 689

Sixtus V 691

Glossary 692

Bibliography 700

Index 715

Photo Credits 735

Literary Credits 736