1. Chapter 10: Islamic Art

2. Warm-up 2-3-15 Ch 14 L1 Late Medieval
Respond to the Following:
What are the typical Byzantine stylistic characteristics seen in the image below?
What do you know about the “Black death” or the bubonic plague?
Obj: SWBAT describe how Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned marked the “proto Renaissance”
Past Due:
Chapter 10 Islamic art:
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Quiz
Essay Exam Re-write
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3. 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

4. Agenda: Homework: Due Today: Nothing Warm-up
Announcements and Reminders
Notes
Exit Slip
PAST DUE:
Cue Cards
Quiz
Essay Exam Re-write
Future Due Dates:
Mon 2/9—Chapter 14 Cue Cards and Quiz
Homework:
Read Chapter 14 Late Medieval art Pg
Arena Chapel
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6. 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

7. Italy Around 1400

8. Late Medieval (14th c.) Italy
CONTEXT
Politics & Economy
- Italy turns into City-states
- international trade  more power.
- 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

9. 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

10. How is this work like the Byzantine era?
How is it different?
Late Medieval
Byzantine

11. NO more tilted head holds child’s leg overlapping of faces figures through openings solid, massive figures wings at rest more 3-D

12. Madonna Enthroned Giotto 1310, Florence Narrative: Virgin and Christ
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

13. Exit Slip
How does Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned mark a transition into the “proto-renaissance?”
What are the old ideas?
What are the anti-medieval ideas expressed in this work? What are the classical Ideas?