1400 – 1500
Renaissance in Italy & the North

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Robert Campin The Merode Altarpiece Jan van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece (closed) Ghent Altarpiece (open) Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife Petrus Christus Portrait of a Carthusian Rogier van der Weyden Deposition The Last Judgment Unknown The Unicorn in Captivity
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Orsanmichele Representations of David in the Florentine Renaissance Brunelleschi Linear Perspective: Filippo Brunelleschi's Experiment Early Applications of Linear Perspective Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore Ghiberti (and Brunelleschi) The Sacrifice of Isaac Donatello David Saint Mark Contrapposto Masaccio The Tribute Money Holy Trinity Virgin and Child Enthroned Fra Angelico The Annunciation Prado Annunciation Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and Child with Angels Madonna and Child Man and Woman at a Casement Piero della Francesco Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and Portrait of Battista Sforza The Baptism of Christ Domenico Veneziano St. Lucy Altarpiece Sandro Botticelli La Primavera The Birth of Venus
Venice More
Bellini Saint Francis in Ecstacy Carlo Crivelli Madonna and Child Enthroned Andrea Mantegna Dead Christ St. Sebastian Camera degli Sposi Dormition of the Virgin
Constantinople More
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Bellini's St. Francis

Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris

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Where and When

Venice

Venice, Italy
c. 1480

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