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Filippo Brunelleschi. 1337-1446; born in Florence Italy Master goldsmith and architect Studied roman architecture in Rome for ten years No formal training in architecture. Views of Artistic Techniques. Gave builders drawn plans
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Filippo Brunelleschi • 1337-1446; born in Florence Italy • Master goldsmith and architect • Studied roman architecture in Rome for ten years • No formal training in architecture
Views of Artistic Techniques • Gave builders drawn plans • Made work site safer with safety net, provided lunch, watered down wine • Believed in symmetry, using geometric forms, and proportion • Believed that art was created to be built upon • Designed buildings using 1:2, 1:5, and 2:5 ratios
Dome on the Cathedral of Florence Brunelleschi
Brunelleschi Foundling Hospital
Brunelleschi Pazzi Chapel
Donatello and Ghiberti By: Morgan Gowdy and Angel McCreary
Donatello Also Known as : Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi Lifespan: 1386 - 1466 Career: Donatello was apprentice to Ghiberti One of his patrons was Cosimo de Medici.
Why He Is Famous • Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance period. • Donatello was a forerunner of humanistic expression and worked towards creating a system of perspective • Donatello was one of the first Renaissance artists interested in the Classical art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome and became the first artist of the Renaissance to create a nude statue • Donatello invented a technique known as schiacciato, or shallow relief, which achieved effects of spatial depth
Donatello David
Donatello St. George
Donatello Equestrian Monument
Ghiberti • Lifespan: 1380 - 1445 • Early Life and Education: Well educated
Why Is He Famous • Medieval sculptor and painter. • His work on the set of beautiful bronze doors on the East Doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence were referred to as "The Gates Of Paradise" by Michelangelo. • Lorenzo Ghiberti was a founder of the Renaissance, an intellectual movement that started in the Italian city of Florence in the early 15th century.