Essay art hist 2
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14centurymodulo2.pptxFourteenth-Century Art in Europe
Module 2 Part 1
Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Frescos of the Sala dei Nove (Or Sala della Pace). 1338–1339. Length of long wall about 46’.
Life in the 1300s in Europe
-A new and growing group of wealthy merchants supported the arts
Artists and other professionals organized into GUILDS
However, there were problems too:
Famine
Black Death
Hundred Years’ War between France and England (1337-1450)
The Church in disarray (Great Western Schism)
Art and Artists in the Fourteenth Century
Still connected to patrons (but now both religious and secular)
Art both religious and secular
Began to see themselves, however, as “artists” in the modern sense
Interest in naturalism
Late Medieval City-States:
Each city known for its own style
Florence – naturalistic, bold, experimental
Siena – graceful, conservative, jewel-like
Europe in the Fourteenth Century.
Piazza della Signoria with Palazzo della Signoria (Town Hall) 1299–1310, and Loggia dei Lanzi (Loggia of the Lancers), 1376–1382.
Medieval Italian city-state: walled citadel on hilltop
Andrea Pisano. Life of John the Baptist. 1330–1336. Each panel 19 1/4 × 17”.
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Andrea Pisano. The Baptism of the Multitude. 1330–1336. 19 1/4 × 17”.
Illusion of
Space
Gracefulness
Cimabue. Virgin and Child Enthroned. c. 1280. 12’ 7" × 7’ 4”.
Florence
Byzantine Influence
Giotto di Bondone. Virgin and Child Enthroned. 1305–1310. 10’ 8" × 6’ 8 1/4”.
Buon Fresco.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/altarpieces-in-context
Duccio di Buoninsegna. Conjectural Reconstruction of the Front of the Maestà Altarpiece. 1308–1311. Main front panel 7 × 13’.
Interior, Siena Cathedral
Duccio di Buoninsegna. Conjectural Reconstruction of the Back of the Maestà Altarpiece.
Duccio di Buoninsegna. Raising of Lazarus. 1308–1311. 17 1/8 × 18 1/4”.
Duccio di Buoninsegna. Betrayal of Jesus. From the back of the Maestà altarpiece, made for Siena Cathedral, 1308-11. Tempera and gold on wood, 57.2 x 101.6 cm.
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi. Annunciation. 1333. 10' × 8’ 9”.
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, detail, Annunciation, Siena Cathedral, 1333,
tempera and gold leaf on wood, center panel 10’1” x 1’ 8 ¾”.
Image Source: http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/annunciation-by-simone-martini-and-lippo-memmi/
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