ARTS 150 1st Edition Lecture 2Outline of Current Lecture II. CimabueIII. GiottoCurrent Lecture- Last Class:o Religion to art- the importance of the altarpieceo Humanism movement- Dante and Petrarcho Byzantine Art- eastern part of Greco-roman empire Constantinople fall to Turks- Coppo Di Marcovaldo “Crucifixion”- Berlingherhi “Altarpiece of St.Francis”- Cimabue “Virgin and Child Enthroned”o 1280 Byzantine art Know this because the virgin is more slender and is holding Christ surrounded by angelso Tempera and woodo Hebrew prophets on bottomo Main early renaissance image- Panel Painting and Tempera Painto Technique from Cennio Cennini “The Book of Art” 1400o Step by step instructions Wood panels fitted together Covered with gesso typ. 9 layers Pigments ground from minerals and plants Red clay gold leaf applied Underdrawing Being paintingo Today process is simplified- Archaic Orientation in Cimabue’s paint and the influence of Byzantine icono No ground lineo Figures are frontalo Accent on vertalityo De-materizalied figureso No sense of spatial recessionThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Lots of gold leafo Virgin is on hierarchic scaleo Symmetric- Cimabue’s work was then reworked by many artistso Guido da Siena “Virgin and Child Enthroned” Mandorla- an oval shape that surrounds the virgin and childo Giotto “Madonna and Child Enthroned” Permits substance and visualization of human form Emphasizes the body’s physicalityo Giotto and Cimabue Both use iconography and gold Differences- in Giottos paintings the space gets more defined, madonna has more volume, the angels are less stacked and there is more depth, thrones and figures are volumizedo Giotto was commissioned to paint frescos Arena chapel or Scrovegni Chapel for Enrico Scrovegni Famous for depiction of passion 6 windows on one side then an empty wall for fresco 3 main fresco cycles: life of Christ, life of virgin, the passion- Lives of the Virgin and Christ- 3 Registerso Registers divided into 6 sections of narrative- 35 relgious sceneso Bottom register- allegorical figures- personifications of the Christian virtues and viceso At bottom Grisaille- monochrome grayscale of image- Giotto “meeting at the Golden Gate”- one example of sceneo Narratives from Christian history- “Golden Legend” Jacobus de Vovagine Giotto got many of his narrative for scenes
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