ART 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Pietro Perugino, Masaccio, Siena Cathedral
Document Summary
Made of 3 pieces that are hinged together to open and close during services. Jan van eyck (credited with creating oil paints) Ghiberti (more well-known than brunelleschi) there was a competition to see who was better. Ghiberti"s work won the competition with his work. The man with the knife to his son"s throat (in brunelleschi"s piece) was too much in the judges" opinions. The donkey took away from the main focus. Ghiberti was a well-known artist which served as a bias. Was made into a competition where brunelleschi won; made a 2 domed piece, there was a shell with the painted images and the outer shell. Donatello: becomes the first giant for sculptors in italy. Statue is first life-size nude male since antiquity. Dated as early as c. 1420 or as later as the 1460s. The statue has a very feminine look to it, which is why it was commissioned as a private work for the medici family alone.
