Unit 7: Postcards/Images

6 paintings or sculptures: minor works to measure against the masterpieces/ single theme/ single artist.

I choose to collect my postcards based on the theme of "The Depiction of Violence in Italian Renaissance Art"

Judith and Holofernes. [bronze] Donatello (1430) Height: 236cm. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian [oil on poplar] Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo (1473-1475) Size: 291.5 x 206.6cm. National Gallery, London

David beats Goliath. [fresco] Michelangelo Buonarotti (1509) Size: 570 x 970cm. Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist. [bronze] Vincenzo Danti (1570-1571) Height: St John the Baptist 164.2cm, Salome 243.0cm, Executioner 268.0cm. Museo del Bargello, Florence 

The Flagellation of Christ. [oil on panel] Francesco Bacchiacca (c. 1512-1515) Size: 55.9 x 48.1cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.

The Flaying of Marsyas. [oil on vancas] Titian (c.1575) Size: 212 x 207cm. ARchbishop's Gallery, Kromeriz, Czech Republic.

Unit 7: Annotation: Titian, Europa

Bibliography

Georgievska-Shine, A. (2007) Titian, “Europa”, and the Seal of the “Poesie”. Artibus et Historiae. 28 (56), pp.177-185. Available from: http://www.jstor.org [Accessed: 11 August 2011]

Stone Jr, D. The Source of Titian’s Rape of Europa. The Art Bulletin. 54 (1), pp. 47-49.
Europa. Available from: http://www.jstor.org [Accessed: 11 August 2011]

Titian (1559-1562) Europa [oil on canvas] [online image] Place: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Available from: http://www.bridgemaneducation.com [Accessed: 10 April 2011]