Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Renaissance


Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Abraham, Competition Panel, Italian Renaissance




Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Abraham, Competition Panel, Italian Renaissance








Florence Cathedral, dome designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian Renaissance





Filippo Brunelleschi, The Pazzi Chapel, Florence, The Italian Renaissance







Linear Perspective; print by Vredeman de Vries






Linear Perspective: Masaccio, The Trinity, Italian Renaissance







Masaccio, The Tribute Money from the Brancacci Chapel, Italian Renaissance





Lorenzo Ghiberti, Second set of doors for the Florence Baptistery, "The Gates of Paradise," Italian Renaissance





Donatello, St. George, Italian Renaissance






Donatello, David, the first free-standing nude sculpture since ancient times, Italian Renaissance.






Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Betrothal, Flemish Renaissance, an oil painting.
 





Rogier Van Der Weyden, Descent from the Cross, Flemish Renaissance, oil painting





Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, Italian Renaissance



THE RENAISSANCE

Florence
Lorenzo Ghiberti
--competition panels
Filippo Brunelleschi
--Dome of the Cathedral of Florence
--linear perspective
-----horizon
-----vanishing point
-----orthogonal
International Gothic
egg tempera painting
Masaccio
--Brancacci Chapel
Donatello
Flemish Painting
--Flanders
--oil painting
--Jan Van Eyck
----symbolic realism
--Rogier Van Der Weyden
Botticelli

read Chapter 15


Easter in Florence

The Scoppio del Carro del Fuocco, "Explosion of the Cart of Fire."
Every Easter, the Florentines drag out an enormous 4 story high cart called the Brindellone ("The Big Old Wreck"), hitch it up to a team of 4 white oxen and parade it through the streets of the city stopping in front of the Cathedral in time for Easter Mass. After the choir sings the Gloria of the Mass, a deacon takes a candle and lights it from the Paschal candle, and then ... well, watch what happens.








From the 2013 Scoppio del Carro,







The Florentines have been doing this ceremony in its present form complete with fireworks in church for almost 600 years. They've been doing some form of this Easter ritual for almost a thousand years. Remarkably, they have not yet burned down the Cathedral.