ARTH217

Week 2
Making “art” in the 14th and the 15th centuries

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Important names and terms

- Liberal arts: trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) & quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music)

- Mechanical arts

- Cennino Cennini’s Il libro dell’arte (c. 1390)

- Lost-wax casting

- Fresco technique: intonaco, sinopia, giornata(e), buon fresco, fresco secco

- Panel painting: tempera, oil painting

- Easel painting (canvas)

- Woodcut, engraving

- Guilds

- Workshops

- Patronage

- Court painter/artist

- Open market

Study Images

- Nanni di Banco, Quattro Santi Coronati, 1408-13, Orsanmichele, Florence

General view
Detail of base

- Jacopo della Quercia, Annunciation, 1421-26, Collegiata, San Gimignano

- Donatello, St. Louis of Toulouse, c. 1422-25

- Masaccio, Tribute Money, 1420s, Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

- Domenico Veneziano, Saint Lucy altarpiece, c. 1445

- Lorenzo Ghiberti, East doors of Florence Baptistery, 1425-52, Florence

- Lorenzo Ghiberti, Self-Portrait, East doors of Florence Baptistery, 1425-1452

- Leon Battista Alberti, Self-Portrait, c. 1435

- Additional resources

- “Pictures as things” and “The Materials of faith” from the series Making masterpieces [videorecording]/BBC production in association with The National Gallery, London; written and presented by Neil MacGregor; produced and directed by Patricia Wheatley. Chicago, IL:  Home Vision Arts,  c1997

- On fresco painting http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fres/hd_fres.htm

- On panel painting http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pane/hd_pane.htm

- On oil painting http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/optg/hd_optg.htm

- On printing http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prnt/hd_prnt.htm