Art History Unit Test #2
Late Medieval Art
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Medieval Era
a.k.a. The “dark ages” or “middle ages”
Early Medieval
Migratory
Hiberno-Saxon
Carolingian
Ottonian
Gothic
Romanesque
The characteristics
of
Gothic architecture :
• Interior and exterior ornamentation becomes much more elaborate
and decorative
• Interior space becomes taller and “lighter” . . . . . . more open
• Clerestory fenestration (windows) become larger and lighter.
• Extensive use of rib vaulting
(look for variations).
• Sculpture appears more realistic, 3D and much less stiff as time
progresses into the late Gothic.
• Italian Gothic looks to Byzantium for influence.
And now…….a quick word about
VAULTING:
Clerestory windows
Rib vaulting
Romanesque
Gothic
A. archivolts
B. jamb figures
C. tympanum
D. pinnacles
E. rosetta (rose)
window
F. buttresses
G. tracery
Notre-Dame
Paris, France
c. 1163
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
c. 1145
1220
1150
a.k.a.
Late Gothic Flamboyant Style
Rayonnant Style
flamma = flame
(Latin)
flambeau = torch
(French)
Rouen Cathedral
Rouen, France
c. 1124 - 1350
Orvieto Cathedral
Orvieto, Italy
c. 1280
Palazzo Vecchio
Florence, Italy
c. 1305
Secular Gothic in Venice
Doges Palace
Venice, Italy
c. 1350
nice orientalizing
Ca’ da’Oro
Venice, Italy
c. 1440
Virgin of Paris
Notre-Dame, Paris
c. 1330
Italo-Byzantine Style
Cimabue
(Cenni di Pepo)
c. 1225 – 1300
Madonna Enthroned
c. 1280
The Uffizi Gallery
Florence, Italy
Duccio
Madonna Enthroned
The Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Siena, Italy
c. 1290
Duccio
Maesta’
13’ x 7’
1308 - 11
Museum of the Duomo, Siena
Simone Martini
The Annunciation
10’ x 9.5’
c. 1333
The Uffizi
Gentile
de Fabriano
Adoration
Of the
Magi
The Uffizi, Florence
c. 1423
The
Limbourg Brothers
(Les Tres Ricyhes Heures de
Duc de Berry)
The Book of Hours
of the
Duke of Berry
c. 1413
January
Manuscript
Illumination
Roman
Wall Painting
Italo-Byzantine Style
International Style
Giotto
(panel painting)
(fresco painting)
Northern Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
(panel /oil painting)
(fresco painting)
Giotto
Madonna Enthroned
The Uffizi, Florence, Italy
c. 1310
Scrovegni
Chapel
(The Arena Chapel)
Padua, Italy
c. 1305 - 06