Medieval Period

Medieval Period

• Also known as the Dark Ages; from the 5th Century to the 15th century. (5-15th century)

• This period saw massive social and economic changes coupled with developments in agriculture and medicine.

• Childbirth, famine, and bad weather threatened the survival of ordinary people.

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• The Dark Ages was a period of intellectual darkness due to the loss of classical learning (as described by Petrarch, an Italian Scholar and Poet).

• Period in which Christianity flourished in Europe.

• Art during this period also saw many developments (known as Pietistic).
  
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  Ognissanti Madonna	Adoration of the Magi

ARTWORKS

• METALWORK

  • Adornment made of either metal or bronze used to create religious

  artifacts

• PAINTINGS

  • Iconography, fresco, and panel painting

• Panel Painting:

  • Painting on a panel made of a single or several pieces of wood joined together.
    

• Embroidery:

  • Decorative fabric created through needle thread or yarn.

• Ceramics:

  • Hand-shaped wheel-turned to produce cooking pots and jars, jugs, and pitchers.

• Mosaic:

  • Images with small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other material.
    

• Tessera:

  • Individual tile in a mosaic.

• Sculptures:

  • Stiff and elongated style of statues used in Romanesque art.

• Heraldry:

  • Practice of designing and recording coats of arms and badges.

ARTISTS

Donatello

• Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello (Italian: [dona’tɛllo]),

• was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence.

• He studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive career.

Filippo Brunelleschi

• Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian designer and a key figure in architecture.

• He is recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor.

• He was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance.

Cimabue

• Cimabue (Italian pronunciation: [tſima'bu:e]; Ecclesiastical Latin: [ti'ma:.bu.e]; c. 1240 1302),

• also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence.

Lorenzo Ghiberti

• best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

• Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.

Leon Battista Alberti

• was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer.

• he epitomised the Renaissance Man

Giotto

• was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.

• He worked during the Gothic/Proto- Renaissance period.

Fra Angelico

• the common English name Fra Angelico means the "Angelic friar".

• He was the patron of catholic artist.

• it is art pieces he used new realism to define the volume of his artworks and he also put in consideration the linear perspective.

Hildegart of Bingen

• Also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine

• was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages.