1. What mediums have we studied so far?

2. Tempera
Wood Block Print
Etching
What are key characteristics of each? What are “things” that you must consider?

3. What do you know about fresco?
What is the difference between buon fresco and fresco a secco?
How does fresco “work?”
Michelangelo's fresco painting technique demonstration from a NOVA episode

5. Masaccio
The Expulsion from Paradise
fresco cycle in the Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa del Carmine in Florence

6. Masolino Vaulting (detail) 1435 Fresco Baptistery, Castiglione Olona

7. Why do we study Giotto?
What is he able to accomplish? What about his technique predicts the Renaissance?
What about his work still feels very Gothic?
What do you notice about how he composes his frescoes? What devices does he use again and again to create a sense of depth?
What is the central focus of each fresco?

8. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family c

9. Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family c. 1304-1313
Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family c
Commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni to expiate the sins of his father who was a notorious usurer.
Detail of Enrico Scrovegni from The Last Judgement

10. The Last Judgment Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family c
The Last Judgment

11. Detail from The Last Judgment
These are the people who have been called up to heaven to sit on the right-hand side of God.

12. Detail from The Last Judgment The dammed and the devil who eats them.

16. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Annunciation

19. The Visitation

20. The Nativity

21. Detail of The Nativity

22. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Adoration of the Magi

24. Detail of The Adoration of the Magi

25. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Slaughter of the Innocents

28. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Baptism of Christ

31. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Raising of Lazarus

34. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem

38. The Pact of Judas

39. The Last Supper

40. The Kiss of Judas

41. The Kiss of Judas

42. The Flagellation of Christ

43. The Crucifixion

45. The Crucifixion

46. The Crucifixion

47. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Lamentation
(The Pieta)

51. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Ascension

53. Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
The Pentecost

55. Joachim and Anna Meet at the City Gates The Immaculate Conception
Giotto di Bondone
Arena Chapel Padua, Italy for the Scrovegni family
Joachim and Anna Meet at the City Gates
The Immaculate Conception

59. The Birth of the Virgin

60. The Feast at Cana The Lamentation

61. Driving the Money Changers Out of the Temple The Pentecost

64. Giotto—Arena Chapel c. 1305 (four parts)
Michelangelo's fresco painting technique demonstration from a NOVA episode
Giotto—Arena Chapel c (four parts)

65. The Seven Virtues: Charity
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
grisaille

66. The Seven Virtues: Faith
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

67. The Seven Virtues: Hope
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

68. The Seven Virtues: Justice
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

69. The Seven Virtues: Temperance
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

70. The Seven Virtues: Fortitude
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

71. The Seven Virtues: Prudence
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

72. The Seven Vices: Foolishness
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

73. The Seven Vices: Inconstancy
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

74. The Seven Vices: Wrath
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

75. The Seven Vices: Injustice
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

76. The Seven Vices: Infidelity
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

77. The Seven Vices: Envy
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

78. The Seven Vices: Desperation
1306 fresco, 120 x 60 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

79. A Comparison You Must Consider
Simone Martini’s Annunciation and Pietro Lorenzetti’s Birth of the Virgin c
What has changed?
What does this mean?

80. Simone Martini Annunciation from the Siena Cathedral 1333 tempera and gold on wood panel

81. Pietro Lorenzetti Birth of the Virgin from the Siena Cathedral c
Pietro Lorenzetti Birth of the Virgin from the Siena Cathedral c tempera and gold on wood panel

82. Both were made in Siena in within the same ten years
Both were made in Siena in within the same ten years. What do you notice?