Introduction: c. 1500

Case Studies: Botticelli and the Medici; Leonardo in Milan

Readings:

• Paoletti and Radke: look over part 6, read pp. 331-35
• Murray ch. 1

Images:

set number: RT223-1 Image Database

• Botticelli. Adoration of the Magi. c. 1470
• Botticelli. Primavera. c.1483
• Botticelli. Mystic Nativity. 1500
• Bramante. S.M. della Grazie, Milan. begun 1493
• Leonardo. Last Supper. 1494-8. S.M. della Grazie, Milan
• Leonardo. Madonna of the Rocks. 1483-1508
• Leonardo. Sforza Equestrian Monument, c.1490-98

Terms

• humanism
• one-point (linear, scientific) perspective
• Neo-Platonism
• Fra Savonarola (1452-98)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433-99)
  

Patrons

Ludovico Sforza (1452-1508)
Lorenzo de Medici (the Magnificent, 1449-1492), probably for Lorenzo Pierfrancesco de Medici
The confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, Milan

Artists

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519)
Donato Bramante (1443/44-1514)