ARTS 150 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Current Lecture II Cimabue III Giotto Current Lecture Last Class o Religion to art the importance of the altarpiece o Humanism movement Dante and Petrarch o 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 angels o Tempera and wood o Hebrew prophets on bottom o Main early renaissance image Panel Painting and Tempera Paint o Technique from Cennio Cennini The Book of Art 1400 o 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 painting o Today process is simplified Archaic Orientation in Cimabue s paint and the influence of Byzantine icon o No ground line o Figures are frontal o Accent on vertality o De materizalied figures o No sense of spatial recession These 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 leaf o Virgin is on hierarchic scale o Symmetric Cimabue s work was then reworked by many artists o Guido da Siena Virgin and Child Enthroned Mandorla an oval shape that surrounds the virgin and child o Giotto Madonna and Child Enthroned Permits substance and visualization of human form Emphasizes the body s physicality o 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 volumized o 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 Registers o Registers divided into 6 sections of narrative 35 relgious scenes o Bottom register allegorical figures personifications of the Christian virtues and vices o At bottom Grisaille monochrome grayscale of image Giotto meeting at the Golden Gate one example of scene o Narratives from Christian history Golden Legend Jacobus de Vovagine Giotto got many of his narrative for scenes here
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