Whip Around
Ch 14 L4 Late Medieval 1. Take out a half sheet of paper
2. Write “Late Medieval” the top.
Obj: SWBAT describe
3. Then write the first thing that comes
how Giotto’s
to mind when you see this title
Madonna Enthroned
4. Pass that paper to your right
marked the “proto
Renaissance”
5. Read the paper you receive from a
classmate
6. Write the first thing you think about
upon reading their Comment
7. Keep passing and responding until
Mrs. Q says stop
Warm-up 2-6-15
Past Due:
Chapter 10 Islamic art:
• Cue Cards
• Quiz
• Essay Exam Re-write
Due Today:
• Giotto Exit Slip
PAST DUE:
• Cue Cards
• Quiz
• Essay Exam Re-write
Agenda:
Warm-up
 Announcements and
Reminders
 Notes
 Exit Slip

Future Due Dates:
Mon 2/9—Chapter 14 Cue Cards and
Quiz
AP applications Due Friday 2/20
Homework:
Read Chapter 14 Late Medieval art
Pg.400-412
Arena Chapel, Duccio
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How does Giotto’s
Madonna Enthroned mark
a transition into the “protorenaissance?”
Think about:
• What are the old ideas?
• What are the antimedieval ideas expressed
in this work? What are the
classical Ideas?
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Italy Around 1400
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Arena Chapel
Giotto 1305, Padua, Italy
Function:
Private chapel, worship
Medium:
• Fresco—pigment applied
to fresh wet plaster
• --durable/permanent
painting technique
Narrative:
• Mary’s life (top level)
• Life of Christ (middle)
• Ceiling is blue with gold
stars = symbol of heaven
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Arena Chapel
Giotto 1305, Padua, Italy
Stylistic:
• Painted Imitation marble
veneer
• “Grisaille”--Monochrome
gray
• Blue background unifies
the space
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CFU
1. What is a “Fresco?”
2. How is “grisaille” used
in this chapel?
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Lamentation
Giotto 1305 Fresco, Arena Chapel
Context:
Stagecraft (theater)
becomes popular
Narrative:
• Lamentation- act of grief
or sorrow for Christ’s
death
• Mary holds Christ
• Mary Magdalene looks at
wounds on feet
• Saint John throws up
arms
• Rock with wilted tree
• Emotion & Grief-individuals
What is the meaning behind the wilted tree??
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Lamentation
Giotto 1305 Fresco, Arena Chapel
Stylistic:
• Angels—foreshortening
• Seen head-on & bodies
recede into the
background
• Diagonal rock draws eye
to Christ as focal point
• Dramatically off-center
• Seated figures have their
backs to the viewer
• Light and shadow
• 3-D space, use of
perspective
What do the seat figures remind you of?
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CFU
3. Why are the seated
figures positioned away
from the viewer??
• We are spectators to the
scene, we are involved
looking on with them
4. Why would the artist do
this??
• Hellenistic idea
• Popularity of stagecraft
• Experimentation with
illusionary space
• Humanism/new
vernacular—ideas
accessible to all
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Lamentation
Giotto 1305 Fresco, Arena Chapel
Meaning/Significance:
Emotion & movement =
Dramatic narrative, holy
lesson,
Naturalistic setting =
accessible to all
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Maesta
Altarpiece
(Virgin & Child Enthroned)
1310
For Siena Cathedral
M: tempera on wood
A: Duccio
polyptych
Virgin as PROTECTOR of
Sienese citizens (like
Byzantine icons).
The painting itself is holy and
precious, like the subject
13th and 14th century silk trade
from China and Mid East =
shimmering textiles
What’s Byzantine?
gold, hieratic scale, thin figures, stacked angels
What’s SIENESE?
Slightly less frontal and rigid than Byz.
Figure 19-10 DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, principal panel of the Maestà
altarpiece, from the Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1308–1311. Tempera on wood, panel 7’ x 13’. Museo dell’Opera del
Duomo, Siena.
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Duccio- Maesta
Altarpiece,
BETRAYEL of
JESUS, predella
panel
How is it
different from
Virgin and Child?
Figure 19-11 DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA, Betrayal of Jesus, detail from the back of the Maestà altarpiece, from the Siena
Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1309–1311. Tempera on wood, detail approx. 1’ 10 1/2” x 3’ 4”. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena.
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