Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

tradition. Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets (FIG. 19-7), created for the church of Santa Trinità (Holy Trini ...

classical cultures as particularly praiseworthy. This enthusiasm for antiquity, represented by the elegant Latin of Cicero (106– ...

marble goddess. Giotto replaced Cimabue’s slender Virgin, fragile beneath the thin ripplings of her drapery, with a weighty, que ...

self may have been the chapel’s architect because its design is so per- fectly suited to its interior decoration. The rectangula ...

506 Chapter 19 ITALY,1200 TO 1400 T he structured organization of economic activity during the 14th century, when Italy had esta ...

The 14th Century 507 19-10Duccio di Buoninsegna,Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints,principal panel of the Maestà altarpiece, ...

508 Chapter 19 ITALY,1200 TO 1400 19-12Lorenzo Maitani,west facade of Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy, begun 1310. The pointed ...

ican structure in the Tuscan Romanesque tradition, as the three- quarter view of the cathedral in FIG. 19-12reveals. Few Italian ...

PIETRO LORENZETTIOne of Duccio’s students,Pietro Lorenzetti(active 1320–1348), contributed significantly to the gen- eral experi ...

The 14th Century 511 19-14Pietro Lorenzetti,Birth of the Virgin, from the altar of Saint Savinus, Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, ...

of reach of most missiles, includes machicolated galleries(galleries with holes in their floors to allow the dumping of stones o ...

reminders of fair and just administration. And the city hall was just the place for paintings such as Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s. Ind ...

eye ever-upward and never permit it to rest until it reaches the sky. The Italian tower is entirely different. Neatly subdivided ...

the folly of pleasure and the inevitability of death. On the far right (FIG. 19-20,right), ladies and gentlemen ignore dreadful ...

after 1424, it was the most ornate public building in medieval Italy. In a stately march, the first level’s short and heavy colu ...

THE 13TH CENTURY ❚Diversity of style characterizes the art of 13th-century Italy, with some artists working in the newly revived ...

20-1Jan van Eyck,Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride,1434. Oil on wood, 2 9  1  101 – 2 . National Gallery, London. Van Eyck p ...

A s the 15th century opened, two competing popes still resided in Rome and Avignon during the Great Schism (1378–1417), and Fran ...

Due to the expanded territory and the prosperity of the duchy of Bur- gundy, Philip the Bold and his successors were probably th ...

medieval church portals, these altarpieces had a didactic role, espe- cially for the illiterate. They also reinforced Church doc ...