Agostino di Duccio St Bridget of Sweden 1459 marble relief Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
"Fifteenth-century Italy witnessed the introduction of a group of technologies and formats that would quickly attain a newly elevated status. These included the oil painting, executed on canvas at an easel; the drawing in ink, chalk, or pastel on paper; the medal; and the print. In some cases, these media replaced earlier ways of doing things ... oil supplanted the earlier egg-based tempera painting, for example, and canvas gradually took over the role of the wooden panel. Other formats with more continuous histories, such as the small bronze and the marble statue, became a focus of attention in the same years in a way that they had not for centuries before. Into the early twentieth century, being an "artist" usually meant making the sorts of things that fifteenth-century Italians had introduced."
– Stephen J. Campbell and Michael W. Cole, A New History of Italian Renaissance Art (London : Thames & Hudson, 2012)
Domenico Ghirlandaio Francesco Sassetti and his son ca. 1488 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Michele Giambono Man of Sorrows ca. 1430 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Fra Filippo Lippi Portrait of a woman and a man at a casement ca. 1440 tempera on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Filippino Lippi Youths 1480s drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Filippino Lippi Youths ca. 1485 drawing British Museum, London |
follower of Andrea Mantegna Copy of Mantegna's design for a fountain 15th century drawing British Museum, London |
Andrea Mantegna Entombment ca. 1465-70 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Anonymous artist working in Padua Young man in profile ca. 1450-75 drawing British Museum, London |
Anonymous artist working in Padua Nude men fighting ca. 1450-75 drawing British Museum, London |
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1497-1520 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Luca Signorelli Standing figure from the back 1490s drawing British Museum, London |
Vittore Carpaccio Head of a woman in profile late 15th-early 16th century drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Bernardo Parentino Satyr Playing an Aulos 1480s drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |