![“We build sumptuously in order to demonstrate our
greatness to posterity [and] to do honor to our fatherland
and family.”
-- Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building, 1443-52
“Men do two important things in this life: the first is to
procreate; the second is to build.”
-- Giovanni Rucellai, Zibaldone, 1473](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/slidesday2-2-101125114040-phpapp02/85/Slides-Day-2-Part-2-1-320.jpg)
Slides, Day 2, Part 2
- 1. “We build sumptuously in order to demonstrate our greatness to posterity [and] to do honor to our fatherland and family.” -- Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building, 1443-52 “Men do two important things in this life: the first is to procreate; the second is to build.” -- Giovanni Rucellai, Zibaldone, 1473
- 2. Map of Florence, 1471-1482
- 3. Palazzi on the Via de’ Benci
- 4. Palazzo Ginori, Via de’ Ginori, Florence
- 8. Palazzo Rucellai (designed by L. B. Alberti), Florence, 1446-1452
- 11. Loggia Rucellai
- 12. Michelozzo, Medici Palace, 1444-1460
- 17. Botticelli, The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (fourth episode), ca. 1483
- 18. Palazzo Spinelli
- 20. Loggia Rucellai
- 21. Adimari Panel, ca. 1443-1450
- 22. Tuscan cassone (marriage chest)
- 23. Detail of a panel showing wedding gifts (including a cassone) being carried through the streets
- 25. Desco da parto (birth tray), 1428
- 26. Birth bowl showing a mother nursing her newborn while entertaining visitors, c. 1550-70
- 27. Giovanni Toscani, La Festa di San Giovanni, early 15th c. (cassone)
- 28. Festa di San Giovanni, Florence, 24 June
- 29. The palio in Siena, 18th -century painting
- 30. Palio di Fucecchio, Tuscany
- 31. Sano di Pietro, Saint Bernardino of Siena Preaching in the Campo, 1445
- 32. Savonarola Preaching in the Duomo, Florence, 1495
- 37. Leon Battista Alberti, Self-portrait medal
- 38. Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1545
- 39. Cosimo I de’ Medici Federico II Gonzaga
- 40. Vecellio, De Gli Habiti Antichi…: Public prostitute
- 41. Ghirlandaio, Francesco Sassetti and his Son Teodoro (?), ca. 1485 (MMA)
- 42. Childbirth Tray with Youths Playing Civettino, ca. 1450
- 43. Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino, 1545
- 44. Titian, Venus, Mars and Amor, c. 1540
- 45. Courtesan and Blind Cupid (Flap print with liftable skirt), ca. 1588
- 47. Marcantonio Raimondi, I Modi, 1524 (after drawings by Giulio Romano)
- 48. I Modi, ca. 1550-60
- 49. Attributed to Desiderio da Firenze, Satyr and Satyress, after 1524
- 51. Triumph of the Phallus, 17th century French engraving after an Italian drawing of 1540s