Early Renaissance Final Study Guide
Baptism of Christ
• Artist: Masolino• Date: 1435-1436• Medium: fresco• Location: fresco cycle
in the Baptistery at Castigline Olona (north of Milan)
• Patron: Cardinal Branda Castiglione
Annunciation(with background scene of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve)
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1432-1433• Medium: panel• Location: Diocese
Museum, Cortona• Predella of
Visitation
Visitation(from the predella of the Annunciation altarpiece)
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1432-1433• Medium: panel• Location: Diocese
Museum, Cortona
Descent from the Cross(or Deposition)
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1434• Medium: panel• Location: Palla Strozzi
funerary chapel and the sacristy of the church of S. Trinita, Florence (now in the Museo di S. Marco, Florence)
• Patron: Palla Strozzi• Paintings on the pier and
gables by Lorenzo Monaco, early 1420’s
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1440• Medium: panel• Location: altarpiece
for the high altar of the church of S. Marco (now in the Museo S. Marco, Florence)
• Patron: Cosimo de Medici
Annunciation
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1428-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: above the
stairs, dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence
• Patron: Cosimo de Medici
Annunciation with S. Peter Martyr
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: in the cells
of the friars, in the dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence
• Patron: Cosimo de Medici
Coronation of the Virgin
• Artist: Fra Angelico• Date: 1438-1445• Medium: fresco• Location: in the cells
of the friars, in the dormitory floor of the monastery, S. Marco, Florence
• Patron: Cosimo de Medici
Madonna and Child Enthroned(or Tarquinia Madonna)
• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi• Date: 1437• Medium: panel• Location: Galleria
Nazionale, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
• Patron: Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Vitelleschi, for his palace in Corneto Tarquinia
Annunciation
• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
• Date: 1440• Medium: panel• Location: San
Lorenzo, Florence
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
• Date: 1455-1460’s• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,
Florence
Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin and Meeting of Joachim and
Anna• Artist: Fra Filippo
Lippi• Date: 1452 • Medium: panel• Location: Pitti Gallery,
Florence• “tondo”
Feast of Herod
• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
• Date: 1452-1466• Medium: fresco• Location: Cathedral,
Prato
Adoration of the Infant Jesus
• Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
• Date: late 1450’s• Medium: panel• Location: chapel in
the Medici Palace (now in Berlin and replaced by a copy)
• Patron: member of the Medici family
Equestrian Portrait of Sir John Hawkwood
• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1436• Medium: fresco, later
transferred to canvas• Location: Cathedral,
Florence• Patron: Opera del
Duomo
The Flood
• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1445-1455• Medium: fresco• Location: Chiostro
Verde (Green Cloister) Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Battle of S. Romano
• Artist: Paolo Uccello• Date: 1435-1460• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi, Florence
and National Gallery, London
• Patron: Lorenzo Bartolini Salimbeni
• 2 of 3 paintings of Florentine military victories
• Recorded in the inventory of the Medici palace in the later 15th C
Madonna and Child with Saints(“St. Lucy Altarpiece”) and predella of the Annunciation
• Artist: Domenico Veneziano
• Date: 1445-1447• Medium: panel• Location: high altar of
the church of S. Lucia de’Magnoli, Florence and now in the Uffizi
AnnunciationPredella of the St. Lucy Altarpiece
• Artist: Domenico Veneziano
• Date: 1445-1447• Medium: panel• Location: high altar of
the church of S. Lucia de’Magnoli, Florence and now in the Uffizi
Last Supper(and view of wall)
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1447• Medium: frescoes• Location: refectory –
now Museum – of Sant’Apollonia, Florence
Uomini Famosi(Famous Men and Women)
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa
Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)
• Reconstruction of room
Pippo Spano
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa
Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)
• Reconstruction of room
Cumaean Sibyl
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1448• Medium: fresco• Location: Villa
Carducci, Legnaia (outside of Florence)
• Reconstruction of room
Vision of St. Jerome
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1454-55• Medium: fresco• Location: SS.
Annunziata, Florence
Equestrian Portrait of Niccolo da Tolentino
• Artist: Andrea del Castagno
• Date: 1454-1456• Medium: fresco later
transferred to canvas• Location: Opera del
Duomo, Cathedral, Florence
Baptism of Christ
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: late 1440-1450’s
• Medium: panel• Location: Borgo
Sansepolcro, now in the National Gallery in London
• Patron: Pieve of S. Giovanni
Resurrection
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: 1458• Medium: fresco• Location: Town Hall of
Borgo Sansepolcro, now in the Museo Civico
The Legend of the True CrossView of Chapel
• Artist: Piero della Francesca• Date: late 1440’s-1465 but
mostly done in the 1450’s (vault by Bicci di Lorenzo, who began the cycle but left it incomplete in 1447)
• Medium: fresco• Location: S. Francesco,
Arezzo
The Legend of the True CrossDiagram of Scheme
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:
Discovery of the Wood of the True Cross and Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:
Invention of the True Cross and Recognition of the True Cross
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S. Francesco,
Arezzo• Patron:
Battle of Constantine and Maxentius
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:
Annunciation
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo• Patron:
Vision of Constantine
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: • Medium: • Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo • Patron:
Flagellation of Christ
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: 1450’s• Medium: panel• Location: S.
Francesco, Arezzo
Madonna and Child with Saints“Montefeltro Altarpiece”
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: mid 1470’s• Medium: panel• Location: S.
Bernardino, Urbino (now Brera, Milan)
• Patron: Federico da Montefeltro
Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
(front panels)
• Artist: Piero della Francesca
• Date: 1475• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,
Florence• Patron: Federico da
Montefeltro
Triumph of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
(reverse panel)• Artist: Piero della
Francesca• Date: 1475• Medium: panel• Location: Uffizi,
Florence• Patron: Federico da
Montefeltro