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14-1 Giotto di Bondone, Arena Chapel
• florentine painterfresco style of the arena chapel in padua • banker, enrico scrovengi built the chapel ona site adjacent to his palace in hop it would expidate the moneylenders sin of usery • rectangular halls has 6 windows, all in south wall, leaving all the other walls as almost unbroken-well illuminated surfaces for painting • in 38 framed panels, giotto presented th most poignant incidents from lives of the virgin and her parents, Joachim and ana, in the top level, and in the middle and lower levels, the life and mission (middle), and the passion and resurrection (bottom) of jesus • climatic event cycle of human salvation, the last judgement • covers most of the west wall above chapels enterance • giotto was a pioneer in pursuing a naturalistic approach to representation based on observation. In betrayal of jesus, he revived the classical tradition of depicting some figures from the rear |
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14-6 Cimbaue, Madonna enthroned with angela and prophets from santa trinita, Florence, 1280-1290
• tempera and gold leaf on wood • cimbaue was one of the first artists to break way from maniera greca. Although he relied on byzantine models, cimbaue depicted the madonnas massive throne as receding into space • Cimabue challenged some of the major conventions of late medieval art in pursuit of a new naturalism, the close observation of the natural world- the core of classical tradition • Painted it for santa t. (holy trinity) in Florence, the Benedictine church near the arno river built between 1258-1280, roughly contemporaneous with the Dominican church of santa maria novella • Also used gold embellishments common to byzantine art for the folds of madonnas robe, but they are no longer a decorative pattern • In panel, enhance 3 dimensionality of the drapery • Cimbaue constructed a deeper space for the Madonna and the surrounding figures to inhabit that was a common in byzantine art • Vi |
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14-7 giotto di bondone, Madonna enthroned, from the church of ognissanti, florence
• tempera and gold leaf in the wood • giotto displaces the byzantine style in Italian painting and revived classical naturalism • his figures have substance, dimensionality, and bulk, and give the illusion they could throw shadows • giottos Madonna rests within her gothic throne with the unshakable stability of an ancient marble goddess • he replaces cimabues slender virgin, fragile beneath the thin ripplings of her drapery, with a weighty, queenly mother • her body is not lost- showed mary’s breasts pointing through thin fabric of her white undergarment • aimed instead to construct a figure with substance, dimensionality, and bulk • giottos Madonna enthroned marks the end of medieval painting in Italy and the beginning of new naturalistic approach to art |
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14-8 giotto de bondone, lamentation, arena chapel, padua, italu, fresco
• giotto painted lamentation in several sections, each corresponding to one painting session • artists employing the buon fresco technique must complete each section before the plaster dries • buon fresco painter must apply the colors quickly, because once the plaster is dry, it will no longer absorb the pigment • any unpainted areas of the intonaco after a session must be cut away so that the fresh plaster can be applied for the next giornata • in areas of high humidity, venice, fresco was less appropriate because moisture is an obstacle to the drying process • giotto presented one of the most impressive and complete Christian pictorial cycles even rendered |
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14-18 arnolfo di cambio and others aerial views of santa maria del fiore (and the baptistery of san Giovanni; looking northeast), Florence, Italy, begun 1296, campanile desgined for giotto di bondone
• the Florentine duomos marble revetment carries on the Tuscan Romanesque architectural tradition, linking this basilican church more closely to early Christian Italy than to gothic france • Florentines translated their pride in their predominance into such landmark buildings, santa maria del fiore • Florences cathedral, the center of most important religious observances in the city • Arnolofo began working on the cathedral in 1296, three years before he received the commission to build the citys town hall |
