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Courts III

ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE 1250-1400
COURTS III: CIVIC PATRONAGE IN ITALY

Commune and signoria; good and bad government

Slide 2: Ambrogio Lorenzetti? (recently attributed to Simone Martini), City by the Sea (view of Talamone), c.131l?/1320s?, Siena, Pinacoteca

Slide 3: Agostino de Giovanni and Agnolo di Ventura, tomb of Bishop Guido Tarlati, c.1330, Arezzo, cathedral

Slide 4: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good and Bad Government, Good Government town 1338/9, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala de' Nove

Slide 5: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good and Bad Government, Good Government virtues 1338/9, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala de' Nove

Slide 6: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good and Bad Government, Good Government country 1338/9, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala de' Nove

Slide 7: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegories of Good and Bad Government, Bad Government 1338/9, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala de' Nove

Slide 8: Simone Martini, Maesta, 1315, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala del Mappamondo

Slide 9: Simone Martini? and Lippo Memmi?, 'New Fresco' (view of Arcidosso) and Guidoriccio da Fogliano (c. 1352?) above former Mappamondo by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1345

Civic architecture
Slide 10: Piacenza, Palazzo Comunale, begun 1280

Slide 11: Padua, Palazzo della Ragione, early thirteenth century and 1306

Slide 12: Perugia, Fontana Maggiore, by Nicola Pisano, completed 1278

Slide 13: Palazzo dei Priori, begun 1292

Siena and Florence
Campo (Town Hall) and Palazzo Pubblico

Slide 14: Siena, Campo

Slide 15: Siena, Cathedral 1220-60

Slide 16: Siena, Cathedral new construction begun 1316

Slide 17: Siena, Cathedral west facade begun 1284

Slide 18: Siena, Cathedral east facade

Slide 19: Siena, Cathedral facade design (image not found)

Slide 20: Siena, Cathedral nave

Compare west and east façade schemes with rayonnant west facades such as Strasbourg, begun 1277
Slide 21: Strasbourg cathedral begun 1277

Slide 22: Duccio, Maesta, 1308-11, formerly cathedral, now Museo dell' Opera del Duomo

Slide 23: Siena, San Francesco, begun 1326

Slide 24: Florence, Baptistry, begun 1046

Slide 25: Florence, Bargello, begun c. 1255

Slide 26: Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, founded 1299

Slide 27: Florence, Santa Maria Novella (Dominican), begun by 1269

Slide 28: Florence, S. Croce (Franciscan), designed c. 1292

Slide 29: Florence, Orsanmichele, founded 1337, with tabernacle by Andrea Orcagna, 1359

Slide 30: Florence, Cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore, begun 1294 by Arnolfo di Cambio

Enlarged scheme adopted by 1368 (Francesco Talenti, Andrea Orcagna and others; compare representation by Andrea di Firenze in Spanish Chapel at S. Maria Novella, c. 1365), bell tower begun 1334 (drawing with original scheme by Giotto?; compare northern spires like Freiburg, begun c. 1280)
Slide 31: Freiburg begun c.1280