2. Painting-
Terms:
Psalter
Gesso
Tempera
Annunciation
Lamentation

3. Stained glass-
Created during architectural boom
Integral part of Gothic architecture
Consist of hundreds of small pieces of tinted glass held together with strips of lead
Abstract, ornamental style
Stained glass, Bourges Cathedral, c.1220

4. Shows geometric plans of stained glass
Challenge to fill large spaces with very logical designs
Villard de Honnecourt, Wheel of Fortune, c.1240

5. Illumination became secular- workshops instead of monasteries
Illuminated manuscripts took the place of stained glass, reflects same style
Symmetrical framework
Modeling on figures created 3-d effect except for contours which flatten- dark lines
Illumination became secular- workshops instead of monasteries
Psalter of St. Louis, c. 1260

6. Italy-
Strongly influenced by both Byzantine and Northern Carolingian Art mixed to make Medieval
Panel paintings, mosaics, murals
Tempera
Egg-based medium
Dries quickly
Tough surface, covered w/ gold leaf
Preparation is time consuming
Prepped with gesso- glue/plaster mix
Thin layers with fine brushes
Few corrections allowed
Cimabue-( ) Florence
-severe design and expressions
-geometric quality
Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned, c

7. Duccio, Madonna Enthroned, Maestra Altar, 1308-11
Sienna rather than Florence- different style. Similar to Cimabue but many changes
-drapery is soft and flowing
-figures are rounder, more 3-dimensional
-”naturalness” of baby
-communication between glances

8. Duccio Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, Maestra Altar 1308-11
First example of figures enclosed in an architectural interior. Where did they come up with this idea???

9. What keeps this painting from looking realistic?
Duccio, Christ Entering Jerusalem
Maestra Altar
Architecture creates space- like architectural housing of Gothic sculptures
Illusionism borrowed from Romans
What keeps this painting from looking realistic?

10. Giotto, Arena Chapel,
Giotto
Florentine
Less close to Greek style
Monumental rather than panel painter-frescos
More simple than Duccio
Frescos allowed for more limited range of color
Far greater impact-viewer is closer to event
First painter to establish a relationship between artwork and its viewer

11. Giotto v. Duccio Giotto, Christ Entering Jerusalem 1305-06
Duccio, Christ Entering Jerusalem

12. The era of painting began with Giotto.
Giotto’s paintings have an “inner coherence” that hasn’t been seen before
Point of view
Simplification
Eyes rest on action, they do not move around
3-dimensional reality
Figures rather than architecture create the space
Giotto, Lamentation
The era of painting began with Giotto.

13. Cimabue
Giotto, Madonna Enthroned, c. 1310

14. Who has this artist studied?
S. Martini, The Road to Calvary, 1340

15. The Lorenzetti Brothers Attention to every day life
Solutions for problems of space
Combination between figural and architectural space
Pietro Lorenzetti, The Birth of the Virgin, 1342

16. Teeming with activity, reality exists because of the scale of buildings to people.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Good Government in the City,
Palazzo Pubblico, Sienna

17. Jean Pucelle, Betrayal of Christ and Annunciation, 1325-28
Illuminated manuscripts- north of the Alps
-influence of Italians is definite...

18. Influences from Italy
Richness of color
Architectural interior
Modeling and overlapping
Bohemian Master, Death of the Virgin,

19. International style- Blending of Northern and Italian traditions
Melchior Broederlam- picture space is not as advanced as Italians, but there is a deep sense of space-
Modeling is more advanced
-loosely flowing drapery (like sculptures)
-”realism of particulars”
Broederlam, Annunciation and Visitation,

20. Limbourg Brothers- Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Most advanced paintings of International style
Changing nature and the labors of the month
February is the earliest snow scene in the history of western art
Harmony of architecture and landscape
October is the first cast shadows since Greece
Shows differences between peasants and aristocracy
January- life of the nobility, individual portraits
Limbourg Brothers, February,

21. October
January

22. Gentile da Fabriano- greatest Italian painter of the International style-
What makes this an International Style painting?
Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi, 1423