Cimabue

Giotto decided to used his natural, earthly technique that he is known for today. He was born in the mid-1200’s. His main focus was on paintings, although he created sculptors. He would create full figures from three dimension methods. As a kid, he spent his time working for others in Italy. His first biographer was Giorgi Vasari. Di Bondone spent most of his time working under Florence famous painter Cimabue. He helped Cimabue paint the scenes from the saint’s life on the Church of St. Francis. People considered his style unique and new. Although, Giotto was fairly new compared to Cimabue, you could tell his techniques that were used. Cimabue first discovered Giotto when he was 12 years old, while he was out drawing a picture of his father sheep on a flat rock. During this time, he spent this period exploring Italy with Cimabue. The more they traveled, his name and reputation started to spread. He later became a famous Italian painter, sculptor and architect from Florence, Italy. He was known to introduce new ideas of naturalism. Once his career took off, he was visiting places such as Rome, Padua, Arezzo, Rimini, Assisi, and Naples. Di Bondone is one of the first out of all magnificent artist to participate in…

Cimabue and Giotto were both considered to be two of the most important artists in the movement from Medieval to renaissance art. At first glance, Cimabue and Giotto’s styles look practically the same. But under further analysis, the difference between each artist’s individual styles shows more prominently. By using the Artist’s renditions of Madonna, we can really pinpoint the difference in their individual styles as well as the similarities. Let us start by observing and going over the…

Although both paintings portray the same concept, Cimabue’s Virgin and Child Enthroned, and Raphael’s The Madonna of the Meadows are vastly different. This is because of the different styles, and the different ways of thinking of the two time periods. Obviously these two paintings are portraying the same Christian religious subjects, Mary and the Christ Child. One very noticeable difference is the setting of the two paintings. Cimabue places Mary and Christ on a throne, with several angels…

Although Giotto’s and Cimabue's ‘Virgin and Child Enthroned” share the same biblical subject of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child, they differ in a number of significant ways that reflect their respective embodiments of the Byzantine style in the early 13th century. Upon first glance the paintings are strikingly alike. They share a long pentagon general shape, position of the baby Christ upon the lap of the Virgin Mary and the Virgin Mary upon her throne, and a gold background that make…

Cimabue and Rogier van der Weyden’s works of art deal with the same subject matter and medium, but offer distinct perspectives and analysis to the viewer. Both paintings were created within 150 years of one another so the variances in visual composition of the paintings depict how rapidly art transformed. The Cimabue’s painting is a little earlier (completed in 1280) and van der Weyden’s painting was completed between 1435 and 1440, meaning that the visual elements and composition are varied…

later artists to produce masterpieces. Within the biographies of Cimabue and Duccio, Vasari makes it obvious that Florence painters, deserve more praise than Sienese painters. Cimabue was a Florence painter, who received much more praise from Vasari than the Sienese painter, Duccio. From earlier readings, we know that Vasari enjoys when artists portray their ideas in their own way rather than how it is already being done. During Cimabue’s time, the Greeks as Vasari describes were painting…

Bridge between the “Dark Ages” was what Giotto di Bondone was referred to as during his life time around the Renaissance age. Giotto di Bondone born in Mugello Vally near Florence from, 1267-1337. Florence the city that was center around the new Renaissance culture. Throughout Giotto life, he received many feedback from famous admires. Like Boccaccio, an ardent admirer of ancient Rome, said Giotto “brought the art of painting out of medieval darkness into daylight.” Giotto was compared to more…

In contrast French Gothic cathedrals had vaulted ceilings and pointed arches as a main decoration and their structure was in unison as a whole. The Italian Cistercians switched to tall towers that were a part of the façade but was considered a separate structure from the church. 2. Compare and contrast the approach of Cimabue, Giotto, and Duccio to depictions of the human figure and the surrounding space. Art in the thirteenth and fourteenth century had many artists…

1280 the first Virgin and Child Enthroned was painted by Cenni Di Pepi, also known as “Cimabue.” (M. Stokstad, 536) The second Virgin and Child Enthroned was painted by Giotto Di Bondone in 1305-1310. Both paintings have the same subject, virgin Mary with Jesus sitting on the throne. However, they both had a vast amount of differences in the style. Which is shown in the differences of how they painted human figures and the use of space in the painting. The high alter piece of Virgin and Child…

Cimabue painted Enthroned Madonna between 1280 and 1290. In this particular painting, we can see Cimabue attempting to break from classical styles as he attempts to create paintings that are realistic. The throne on which Madonna is placed has a curve, which Cimabue used in an endeavor to create special depth. When looking at the figures, it seems Cimabue also made the clothing more realistic as viewers are able to grasp a better idea of the bodies since the fabrics flow in a more convincing…