Art History-Chap 17-Images.2

Nani di Banco, Four Crowned Martyrs

• 1410-13, marble, 6 feet high
  
• Commissioned by the stone carvers and woodworkers guild
  
• They were 3rd century Christian sculptors executed for refusing to make an image of a Roman god
  
• Architecture resembles a Gothic chapel, but the figures had appearance of Roman sculpture
  
• Stand in a semi-circle with forward feet and drapery protruding past the floor
  
• Appears to be four individual talking to each other
  
• In the reliefs below there are four sculptors at work
  
  • Figures and objects have been undercut to cast shadows
    

    
    

  Donatello, Feast of Herod
  

• Panel of baptismal font, from Siena Cathedral
  
• Gilt bronze, 1420's
  
• Figures undercut for shadows and to emphasize mass
  
• Lines of brickwork and other architectural details have been incised
  
• Central axis left empty so the eye is led to the left where John the Baptists'' severed head is being presented
  

  
  

  Andrea del Castagno, Last Supper
  

• Fresco in reflectory, Convent of San't Apollonia, France, 1447
  
• 32 feet long and 15 feet high
  
• Gives the illusion of a raised alcove where they are eating
  
• Trompe l'oeil effect is aided by a focal point on the head of the sleeping John, lines of architecture converge there
  

  
  

  Gentile Bellini. Procession of the Relic of the True Cross Before the Church of Saint Mark
  

• Oil on canvas-1496-Venice
  
• Depicts the procession of relic being carried through Saint Mark's Piazza
  
• Celebrated the daily life of the city in large, lively narratives
  

  
  

  Giovanni Bellini. Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint Francis, John the Baptist, Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse
  

• Oil on wood panel-1478-Church of San Giobbe, Venice
  
• Dramatic perspective view up into a vaulted apse
  
• Vanishing point under the angel's feet
  
• Saint Sebastian is pierced by arrows