Week 6: Shift to Early Renaissance

Cimabue

Lived 1240-1302

Italian painter trained in the

Byzantine style and considered the

first master of the Florentine

school.

The Santa Trinita Madonna

By Cimabue

1260

Tempera and gold on wood

Madonna Enthroned

By Giotto

1310

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 45,1 x 43,8 cm

Giotto

1267-1337

A painter, sculptor,

and architect, Giotto

was recognized as the

first genius of art in the

Italian Renaissance.

Arena Chapel

Padua, Italy

1305

The Lamentation by Giotto

fresco

painted on the wall of a chapel in the Italian city of

Padua in about 1305-06.

Nativity

fresco

Giotto

Arena Chapel

Last Judgement

Fresco

Giotto

Arena Chapel

Justice

Giotto

fresco

Arena Chapel

Maesta

By Duccio

Tempra and gold on panel

Siena Cathedral

1308

Kiss of Judas

Duccio

Tempera on Panel

1308

Kiss of Judas

Giotto

Fresco

Arena Chapel

1305