Introduction to the Early Renaissance in Florence in the 15th century under the de' Medici family.

1. The Early Renaissance

3. Florence and the De’ Medicis
in the 15th Century

4. Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici (1360-1429)
Cristofano dell’Altissimo, 16th c.

5. Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464)
Bronzino, 16th c.

6. Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-92)
Bronzino, 16th c.

7. Florence in the 15th c.
Francesco Rosselli

8. De’ Medici Bank
Woodcut, 15th c.

9. Three Wise Men
Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-61

10. Frontispiece of Petrarch’s Copy of Virgil
Simone Martini, mid-14th c.

11. Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98)
Fra Bartolomeo, 1498

12. Architecture

13. Filippo Brunelleschi
1377-1446

14. Florence Cathedral Dome, 1420-36

16. Compare: The Roman Pantheon

17. Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472

18. Sant’ Andrea Mantua, 1470

19. Michelozzo di Bartolomeo
1396-1472

20. Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, 1445-52

22. Sculpture

23. Lorenzo Ghiberti
1378-1455

24. The Gates of Paradise, 1452

26. The Baptism of St. John

27. Adam and Eve

28. Self-Portrait

29. Donatello
1386-1466

30. David, c. 1425-30

32. Compare: Doryphoros
Polykleitos, 440 BCE

33. Mary Magdalene, 1453-55

34. Judith and Holofernes, 1460

35. Painting

36. Masaccio
1401-1429

37. The Tribute Money, 1426

39. Trinity with the Virgin, St. John the
Evangelist, and Donors, c. 1428

43. Piero della Francesca
c. 1406/12-1492

44. Portraits of Battista Sforza and
Federico da Montefeltro, 1472-73

45. Fra Angelico
c. 1400-1455

46. The Annunciation, 1438-45

47. Sandro Botticelli
1445-1510

48. Primavera (The Birth of Spring), c. 1482

49. Compare: The Three Graces, 2nd c. BC

50. The Birth of Venus, 1485