Art History 242 - EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART

The reawakening of the arts in Italy with the formation of new religious organizations and the gradual emergence of political units will be studied through theoretical and stylistic considerations in sculpture, beginning with the work of the Pisani, and followed by the revolutionary achievements in painting of Giotto (in Padua and Florence) and Duccio (in Siena) which will inform the art of generations to come. A revival of interest in the Liberal Arts tradition and the Classical past beginning at the end of the Fourteenth Century in Florence, leading to the period known as the Renaissance during the following century in which such architectural designers as Brunelleschi and Alberti, sculptors such as Donatello and Verrocchio, and the painters Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, and Botticelli, among others, will be examined within the context of the flowering of Humanist courts in Florence, Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara. Group II