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Title: Art of the Middle Ages


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Art of the Middle Ages
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Art in Italy
  • Beginning of Renaissance
  • Rebirth of Greco-Roman culture
  • Italy not as advanced as France, England or
    Germany
  • They had gothic cathedrals
  • Italians had Byzantine tradition

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Middle Ages Paintings
  • More realistic but still very two dimensional
  • Very religious in nature
  • Anatomy not as understood as during the
    Renaissance
  • Often triangular symbolizing the trinity
  • A lot of haloes
  • Usually not much of a background

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  • Anatomy
  • Crucifixion

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CimabueCrucifixion
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Cimabue
Giotto
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Duccio
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Giotto
  • Renowned for realism
  • Also, large scale scene paintings
  • Wooden panel painting
  • Emotion within the characters

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The Meeting of Joachim Anna
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Pieta
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Art in Northern Europe
  • Spread of ideas
  • Also heavy into religious depictions
  • Also, non-religious
  • Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
  • Illustrated prayer books

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Late Gothic Architecture
  • Italian buildings labeled gothic
  • Duomo Italian cathedral
  • No buttresses solid wall surface
  • Duomo, Florence
  • Dome is added in Renaissance by Brunelleschi

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Duomo, Milan
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Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
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Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
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Doges Palace, Venice, Italy
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Choir, Gloucester Cathedral
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