Chapter 10: Islamic
Art
Warm-up 2-3-15
Ch 14 L1 Late Medieval
Obj: SWBAT describe
how Giotto’s Madonna
Enthroned marked the
“proto Renaissance”
Respond to the Following:
1. What are the typical Byzantine
stylistic characteristics seen in the
image below?
2. What do you know about the “Black
death” or the bubonic plague?
Past Due:
Chapter 10 Islamic art:
• Cue Cards
• Quiz
• Essay Exam Re-write
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Byzantine STYLISTIC
CHARACTERISTICS
• Iconography
• Figures: frontal, elongated noses, large staring
eyes, almond shaped faces, solemn expressions,
• Figures tall & slim, flattened, 2-D bodies placed
side by side at same level, isocephalically
• Figures seem to float in space
• Halo behind head
• Hierarchy
• No perspective:
flat, 2-D, compressed space
• Gold backgrounds –
Heavenly space, not of reality
Due Today:
• Nothing
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
Homework:
Read Chapter 14 Late Medieval art
Pg.400-412
Arena Chapel
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14th century ITALY
AKA Late Gothic, Late Medieval,
Proto-Renaissance, Duecento, Trecento
In between Gothic & Renaissance:
Theme: It Begins (the Renaissance, that is)
Dates: 14th century
1301-1400
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Italy Around 1400
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Late Medieval (14th c.) Italy
CONTEXT
Politics & Economy
- Italy turns into City-states
- international trade  more power.
- Papacy/Church @ top of power structure
- GUILDS (unions) begin to emerge. 
Individual ARTISTS
New Ideas
-New Italian vernacular, common language,
makes ideas more accessible
Religion/Spiritual Belief
- Cult of the Virgin (Madonna Enthroned)
- beginnings of humanism – civil code of
conduct w/scholarly discipline Revived
interest in classical culture
-”Early Scientific”—emphasis on
knowledge
-Emphasis on creative individuals
Trecento (14th c.) Italy
CONTEXT
Key figures:
- Artist Giotto Di Bondone—”Father of the
Renaissance”
Stylistic Characteristics
- Return to naturalism of Greco-Romans
- Move away from Byzantine
-Turn away from Spiritual world to the visible
world (observation)
Key Events
- Black Death Plague 1340—eliminated
25%-50% of Euro Population—punishment
for sin?
 Seek redemption--Commissioning of
devotional images
 Focus on death/sadness
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1. How is this work like
the Byzantine era?
2. How is it different?
Late Medieval
Byzantine
NO more tilted head
holds child’s leg
overlapping of faces
figures through
openings
solid, massive
figures
wings at rest
more 3-D
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Madonna Enthroned
Giotto 1310, Florence
Tempera on wood panel
Narrative:
Virgin and Christ
Stylistic:
• Virgin is weighty and asserting—like
ancient marble statues
• Breasts press through
thin fabric
• Illusion with light and
shadow
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Exit Slip
How does Giotto’s
Madonna Enthroned mark
a transition into the “protorenaissance?”
• What are the old ideas?
• What are the antimedieval ideas expressed
in this work? What are the
classical Ideas?
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