From Gothic to Renaissance

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From Gothic to Renaissance

• 14th Century Italian Art Chapter 19

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Goals

• Discuss the formal and iconographic
  characteristics of fourteenth-century Italian art
  
• Explain how the plague affected artistic
  production in fourteenth-century Italy
• Describe the role humanism played in
  fourteenth-century Italian art
• Discuss the art and architecture created for
  monastic orders
• Describe the material, formal, and technical
  characteristics of fourteenth-century Italian
  architecture
• Explain the reintroduction of the optical
  experience in the art of the fourteenth century

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Glossary

• baptistery
• buon fresco
• campanile
• cartoon
• Cimabue
• Duccio Di Buoninsegna
• Giovanni Pisano
• grisaille
• Lorenzetti, Pietro
• International Style
• Nicola Pisano
• perspective
• polyptych
• stigmata
• Guilds artistic training
• Maniera Greca

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How have these factors influenced art from this
period?

• Independent city-states republics
• Guilds
• The Black Death
• The Great Schism
• Humanism

Use the following website to answer some of the
questions in the PowerPoint. http//www.wga.hu/
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DescriptionMadonna and Child, ca. 1326Simone
Martini (Italian Siena, ca. 12841344)Tempera
on panel Overall 23 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (58.8 x
39.6 cm) Painted Surface 22 1/2 x 15 1/8 in.
(57.2 x 38.4 cm)Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
(1975.1.12)
DescriptionMadonna and ChildBerlinghiero
(Italian, Lucca, active by 1228, died by
1236)Tempera on wood, gold ground Overall 31
5/8 x 21 1/8 in. (80.3 x 53.7 cm) Painted
surface 30 x 19 1/2 in. (76.2 x 49.5 cm)Gift of
Irma N. Straus, 1960 (60.173)
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Italo-Byzantine Style

• Maniera Greca (Greek style)
• Stigmata
• Borrowing from Byzantine
• Emotional resonance
• Merchant orders

• BONAVENTURA BERLINGHIERI, panel from the Saint
  Francis Altarpiece, San Francesco, Pescia, Italy,
  1235. Tempera on wood, approx. 5' x 3' x 6".

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• 19-5 PIETRO CAVALLINI, Seated Apostles, detail
  of the Last Judgment, Santa Cecilia in
  Trastevere, Rome, Italy, ca. 1291. Fresco.

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• 19-6 CIMABUE, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and
  Prophets, ca. 1280-1290. Tempera on wood, 12' 7"
  x 7' 4". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

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• Who is depicted here?

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• Compare and contrast.

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• 19-7 GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Madonna Enthroned, ca.
  1310. Tempera on wood, 10' 8" x 6' 8". Galleria
  degli Uffizi, Florence.

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• What concept was Giottos major contribution to
  the art of this period?

early scientific
Explain.
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• Architect?
• For whom?
• Content-
• How is the interior unified?

• 19-8 Interior of the Arena Chapel (Cappella
  Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, 1305-1306.

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• Explain the complexity of the composition.
• Describe the emotional responses.
• chiaroscuro
• perspective

• 19-9 GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Lamentation, Arena
  Chapel, Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6' 6 3/4"
  x 6' 3/4".

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• 19-10 DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Virgin and Child
  Enthroned with Saints

Identify the different styles Duccio used in
these two different paintings and explain his
reasons for doing so.
19-11 DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Betrayal of Jesus
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International Style

• Describe the International Style and where
  it is and isnt located in this painting.

19-12 SIMONE MARTINI AND LIPPO MEMMI(?),
Annunciation, 1333 (frame reconstructed in the
nineteenth century). Tempera and gold leaf on
wood, approx. 10' 1" x 8' 8 3/4". Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence.
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