Table of Contents

Preface

 

Chapter 1 PRELUDE: ITALY AND ITALIAN ART 16

Representing This World 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 25

The Practice of Drawing 27

The Practice of Painting 28

The Practice of Sculpture 33

The Practice of Architecture 34

Printmaking in the Renaissance 36

The Practice of History 36

The Practice of Art History: Giorgio Vasari 37

 

PART ONE: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

 

Chapter 2 DUECENTO ART IN TUSCANY AND ROME 40

Painting in Pisa 42

Painting in Lucca 44

Painting in Florence 45

Painting in Rome 53

Sculpture 57

Architecture 64

 

Chapter 3 FLORENTINE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 72

Giotto 73

Florentine Painters after Giotto 95

Sculpture 100

 

Chapter 4 SIENESE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 102

Duccio 103

Simone Martini 110

Pietro Lorenzetti 119

Ambrogio Lorenzetti 122

Orvieto Cathedral 128

The Master of the Triumph of Death 134

 

Chapter 5 LATER GOTHIC ART IN TUSCANY AND NORTHERN ITALY 136

Mid-Trecento Art in Florence 138

Late Gothic Painting and the International Style 145

Painting and Sculpture in Northern Italy 149

 

PART TWO: THE QUATTROCENTO

 

Chapter 6 THE RENAISSANCE BEGINS: ARCHITECTURE 158

The Role of the Medici Family 160

Filippo Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective 161

The Dome of Florence Cathedral 164

The Ospedale degli Innocenti 168

Brunelleschi’s Sacristy for San Lorenzo 170

San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito 170

Santa Maria degli Angeli 173

The Pazzi Chapel 174

The Medici Palace and Michelozzi di Bartolommeo 174

 

Chapter 7 TRANSITIONS IN TUSCAN SCULPTURE 180

The Competition Panels 181

Ghiberti to 1425 183

Donatello to 1420 188

Nanni di Banco 193

Donatello (c. 1420 to c. 1435) 196

Jacopo della Quercia 199

 

Chapter 8 TRANSITIONS IN FLORENTINE PAINTING 202

Gentile da Fabriano 203

Masolino and Masaccio 206

Popular Devotion and Prints 220

 

Chapter 9 THE HERITAGE OF MASACCIO: FRA ANGELICO AND FRA FILIPPO LIPPI 222

Fra Angelico 224

Fra Filippo Lippi 232

 

Chapter 10 FLORENTINE ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE, c. 1430—1455 238

Alberti 239

Ghiberti after 1425 249

Luca della Robbia 251

Donatello (c. 1433 to c. 1455) 254

Florentine Tomb Sculpture 261

The Portrait Bust 261

 

Chapter 11 FLORENTINE PAINTING AT MID-CENTURY 262

Paolo Uccello 263

Domenico Veneziano 267

Andrea del Castagno 271

Piero della Francesca 278

 

Chapter 12 ART IN FLORENCE UNDER THE MEDICI I 294

Donatello after 1453 298

Desiderio da Settignano 302

The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal 303

Benedetto and Giuliano da Maiano 306

Giuliano da Sangallo 309

Benozzo Gozzoli 312

Baldovinetti and Pesellino 313

 

Chapter 13 ART IN FLORENCE UNDER THE MEDICI II 318

Antonio del Pollaiuolo 320

Andrea del Verrocchio 327

Renaissance Cassoni 331

Alessandro Botticelli 332

Filippino Lippi 347

Domenico del Ghirlandaio 350

Piero di Cosimo 356

 

Chapter 14 THE RENAISSANCE IN CENTRAL ITALY 358

Siena 359

Sassetta 361

Domenico di Bartolo 362

Matteo di Giovanni 364

Vecchietta 364

Francesco di Giorgio 365

Neroccio de’ Landi 367

Perugia 369

Perugino 369

Pintoricchio 374

Melozzo da Forlì 376

The Laurana Brothers and Urbino 378

Naples 384

Luca Signorelli 385

 

Chapter 15 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND NORTHERN ITALY 388

Pisanello 389

Early Quattrocento Art and Architecture in Venice 393

Jacopo Bellini 395

Andrea Mantegna 397

Mantegna and Isabella d’Este 408

Gentile Bellini 411

Antonello da Messina 412

Giovanni Bellini 415

Vittore Carpaccio 421

Carlo Crivelli 425

Venetian Fabrics 426

Venetian Publishing 426

Late Quattrocento Sculpture and Architecture in Venice 428

Late Quattrocento Art in Milan 433

Vincenzo Foppa 433

Filarete 433

Quattrocento Painting in Ferrara 434

North Italian Terra-Cotta Sculpture 440

 

PART THREE: THE CINQUECENTO

Chapter 16 THE ORIGINS OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE 442

Leonardo da Vinci 443

Michelangelo to 1505 469

Raphael in Perugia and Florence 480

Fra Bartolommeo 484

 

Chapter 17 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ROME 486

Donato Bramante 489

Michelangelo 1505 to 1516 496

Raphael in Rome 515

 

Chapter 18 NEW DEVELOPMENTS c. 1520—50 542

Michelangelo 1516 to 1533 544

Andrea del Sarto 555

Pontormo 558

Rosso Fiorentino 563

Perino del Vaga 565

Domenico Beccafumi 567

Properzia de’ Rossi 570

Correggio 572

Parmigianino 577

Pordenone 580

Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and the Younger 581

Baldassare Peruzzi 586

Giulio Romano 586

 

Chapter 19 HIGH AND LATE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND ON THE MAINLAND 590

Giorgione 592

Titian 596

Lorenzo Lotto 613

Tullio Lombardo 616

Painting in Northern Italy 617

Tintoretto 624

Paolo Veronese 632

Jacopo Bassano 639

Michele Sanmicheli 639

Jacopo Sansovino 641

Andrea Palladio 643

Alessandro Vittoria 647

 

Chapter 20 THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 648

Michelangelo after 1534 649

Art at the Medici Court 660

Benvenuto Cellini 662

Bartolommeo Ammanati 665

Giovanni Bologna 667

Agnolo Bronzino and Francesco Salviati 669

Later Ceramic Production 674

Giorgio Vasari and the Studiolo 676

Developments Elsewhere 681

Giuseppe Arcimboldo 681

Lavinia Fontana 682

Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta 683

Federico Barocci 687

Fede Galizia 689

Caravaggio 689

Sixtus V and the Urban Plan of Rome 691

Glossary 692

Bibliography 700

Locating Works of Renaissance

Art 715

Index 716

Photo Credits 735

Literary Credits 736

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.