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 5: Postcards/Images

Unit 5: 2 paintings, 2 sculptures, 2 buildings in classical style

Painting: Holy Trinity. [fresco] Masaccio. (1425) Size: 6.67 x 3.17m. Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Painting: Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement. [tempera on wood] Filippo Lippi (c. 1440) Size: 64.1 x 41.9cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Sculptures: Christ and St Thomas. [bronze] Andrea del Verrochio. (1467-1483) Size:  230cm. Orsanmichele, Florence, Italy

Sculptures: Marzocco, Heraldic Lion. [marble] Donatello. (c. 1420) Size: 135.5cm. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy

Building: Ospedale degli Innocenti. Filippo Brunelleschi. (c. 1420) Florence, Italy

Building: Basilica di Sant’Andrea. Leon Battista Alberti. (1462-1494) Mantua, Lombardy, Italy 

Unit 4: Postcards/Images

Church exterior, church interior, stained glass, sculpture, illuminated manuscript

Church exterior: Chartres Cathedral. (1194-1220) Chartres, France

Church exterior: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. (1075-1122) Galicia, Spain

Church interior: Chancel of Norwich Cathedral. (1096-1145) Norwich, Norfolk, UK

Stained glass: The south window in the transept of Canterbury Cathedral. [stained glass] (c1400) Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, UK

Sculpture: St. Firmin screen. [stone] (c 16^th century) Cathedral of Notre Dame, Amiens, France

Illuminated manuscript: The Annunciation, from a Book of Hours. [tempera and shell gold on vellum] Jean Bourdichon. (c. 1485-90) 9.6 x 6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Unit 3: Postcards/Images

Two classical buildings, two relief sculptures and two free standing sculptures

Classical building: Pantheon, AD 118-128, Rome, Italy

Classical building: Colosseum, AD 70-82, Rome, Italy

Relief sculpture: Ara Pacis Augustae [marble], Roman, 13-9 BC, Dimension: 10.5 x 11.6 x 7m, Rome, Italy

Relief sculpture: Sarcophagus with the triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons [marble], Roman, late imperial, 

Gallienic, c. AD 260-270, Dimension: Width: 86.4 x Length: 215.9 x Ht: 92.1 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Free standing sculpture: Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius[bronze] Roman, 161-180 AD, Height: 424cm, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy

Free standing sculpture: Prima Porta Augustus [marble] Roman, 20BC, Height: 204cm, Vatican Museums, Rome

Unit 2: Postcards/Images

Two greek sculptures, two vase painting, two classical building

Greek sculpture: Man and Centaur [bronze] Greek, mid-8^th century BC, Height: 11.10cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Greek sculpture: Peplos Kore [marble] Greek, 6^th century BC, Height: 118cm, Acropolis Museum, Athens Greece (found at Acropolis, west of Erectheoin, near the Parthenon)

Vase painting: Panathenaic black-figure amphora depicting a foot race [pottery] Greek, 5^th century BC, Musee Municipal Antoine Vivenel, Compiegne, France

Vase painting: Red-figured calyx-krater depicting birth of Pandora [pottery], Attributed to the Niobid painter, 460-450 BC, Height: 49.5cm, British Museum (found at Altamura, Puglia, Italy)

Classical building: Neue Wache (New Guard House), Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1816-1818, Berlin, Germany

Classical building: Parthenon, 447-438 BC, Athens, Greece