SET 3 - History of Art: ID-2241 Exam 4

Proto-Rennaissance art

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Madonna Enthroned

1310

Proto-Renaissance Art

• painted by Italian painter Giotto di Bondone 

• Madonna

  • The Virgin Mary 

• Annucaition

  • Gabriel announces Mary will be the Mother of Jesus

• Enthroned

  • writings of her ascension to heaven 

• Virgin Mary symbolically located on the throne

• Realism

• Earthly form, 3-dimensional

  • Realisitc

  • body under drapery, knees

• overlapping angels

  • details in the shoulders 

  • earthly form

  • halos overlap

  • conforming to the earthly laws of gravity

  • brought down to earth

  • Bowing/kneeling - human drama

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets

1290

Proto-Renaissance Art

• painted by Cimabue

• Madonna

• Flattened image

• Virgin Mary on the throne

• Symbolism

• hieratic image

  • divine symbol,

  • floating qualities

  • Spiritual form - soul, divine, spirit

• stacked angels

  • floating 

  • do not obscure/overlap

  • see their ideal/perfect form

  • divine space, floating within

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Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

1305 - 1306

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Designed by Giotto

• 38 panels describing life of Christ and Virgin Mary

• works with realism (earthly space, perspective systems, human drama)

• Deatails connect one panel to another

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Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, Arena Chapel

1305 - 1306

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Panel at the  Arena Chapel (Giotto)

• Jesus rode donkey into Jerusalem before betrayal and Crucifixion

  • dramatic narrative, at a crossroads, transition

• Leg up, shows donkey in motion

• realistic narration: characters, action, setting

• planimetric separation (narrate the story with space, Christ and disciples in foreground, gates to Jerusalem in middle ground, blue sky aka earthliness in background)

• overlapping (connect planes)

• "Realism" (perspective systems, dramatic moment in suspended time)

• overlapping - crowd following him

• linear perspective, implied lines

  • Looking towards the gate, moving towards gate

• Dramatic moment in the story: suspended time

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Lamentation

1305 - 1306

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Panel at the Arena Chapel (Giotto)

• Lament over crucified body of Christ

• Realism (dramatic moment, perspective systems)

• planimetric separation (Christ and witnesses in foreground, tree in middle ground, background has angels and blue sky aka earthliness)

  • angels lamenting in the sky

• mediation

  • rock

• tree

  • garden of eden

  • wood of the crucifix

• horizon line (ground line, horizontal position of Christ, earthly death)

• Divine space (past time, garden of Eden) and earthly space (present time, death of Christ)

• overlapping - concave space

• linear perspective (manipulation of lines to produce effect of recessional space, orthogonal lines)

• cropping (dividing image to leave it incomplete, implies space beyond painting

• modeling with convex figures

• foreshortening, angels

• continuous plane

• implied lines, eye beam, tells the story

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Meeting of Joachim and Anna

1305 - 1306

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Panel at the Arena Chapel (Giotto)

• Parents of Mary pictured, received maage from angel that Amry will bear Jesus

• planimetric separation, mediation (using bridge)

• overlapping (embrace), realistic 

• lowered horizon line

• cropping, space is continuing

• engaged eye, connects with the viewer

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Betrayal of Jesus

1308 - 1311

Proto-Renaissance Art

• panel on the Maesta Altarpiece (Duccio)

• hieratic imagery

• floating

• tilted plane

• stacked space
  divine space

• symbolic

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Maesta Altarpiece 

1308-1311

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Painted by Duccio di Buoninsegna,

• opposing style to Giotto

• has panels depicting stories similar to the Arena Chapel

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Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (Proto-Renaissance Art)

1308-1311

Proto-Renaissance Art

• panel on the Maesta Altarpiece (Duccio)

• hieratic imagery, floating

• golden sky

• "tilted plane"

• "reverse perspective" (size diminishment is reversed from small to large to show details)

• divine space, symbolic

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The Annunciation 

1333

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Painted by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi 

• Ducciesque (gold, divine space, absence of overlapping, no eye beams)

• Symbol: easter lily, resurrection after the crucifixion 

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Southern door of Baptistery at Florence Cathedral 

1336

Proto-Renaissance Art

• Designed by Andrea Pisano 

• 28 panels, 20 about life of John the Baptist

• "Baptism of Christ" (Giottesque, perspective systems, earthly space, dramatic moment, human drama, overlapping, linear perspective with orthogonals)

• water flows and the dove ascends

Proto-Renaissance

Before Renaissance

1346-1355: 75-200 million people died from the Black Death (bubonic plague)

“Missing generation“ in art guild/workship system

mediation

connection between planes, foreground and middle ground in this case

orthogonal lines

diagonal lines that appear to converge at a distance point

modeling

manipulation of colors from light to light to darker to create illusion of being convex, 3 dimensional form

foreshortening

perspective technique to create illusion of object receding strongly into background

continuous plane

implied lines (eye beam, tells story), continous to teh vires space

often leaves space for viewer’s position

engaged eye

figure in painting appears to look into viewers space

"tilted plane"

stacked space to show details, not recessional space

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Bretrayl, Arena Chapel

Proto-Renaissance Art

1395-1306

• Panel at the Arena Chapel (Giotto)

• Realism (dramatic moment, perspective systems)

• Jesus is arrested as Judas betrays him

• lowered horizon line, continuous plane (within viewer's space, in action but unable to prevent outcome)

• implied lines (eye beams)

• modeling (light to dark, convexity)

Ducciesque

in style of Ducci

Gioettoesque

in style of Giotto