ARTH217

Week 7
Representing authority: art in the civic sphere

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Important names and terms

· Gianozzo Manetti, De dignitate et excellentia hominis

· Equestrian statue

· Condottiere(i)

Study Images

· Donatello and Michelozzo, Tomb of Baldassare Cossa, anti-pope John XXIII, 1421-8, Baptistery, Florence

· Bernardo Rossellino, Tomb of Leonardo Bruni, begun 1444, Church of Santa Croce, Florence

· Antonio Rossellino, Giovanni Chellini, 1456

· Antonio Rossellino, Matteo Palmieri, 1468

· Paolo Uccello, Sir John Hawkwood, 1436, Florence Cathedral

· Andrea del Castagno, Niccolò da Tolentino, 1456, Florence Cathedral

· Donatello, Gattamelata, c. 1445-1453, Piazza di San Antonio, Padua

· Andrea del Verrocchio, Colleoni, c. 1481-96, Campo di San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

· Andrea del Castagno, Famous men and women, originally at the Villa Carducci, southwest of Florence, 1449-1451

Additional images

· Tomb of a member of the Bardi family, 1340s, Cappella di Bardi di Vernio, Santa Croce, Florence

· Marcus Aurelius on horseback, 161-180 AD, originally outside the Lateran Basilica, Rome (today at the Capitoline Hill)

Additional resources

· Visit the site Renaissance Humanism: An outline for an overview of the development of Humanism in Italy and beyond