A History of European Art

Lecture 10: The Black Death and the International Style

Limbourg Brothers:

February, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1413–16,

illumination, 8 ½ x 5 ½» (21.5 x 14 cm), Musée Condé, Chantilly,

France.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti:

Presentation in the Temple, 1342, tempera on panel, 8’ 5 ¼” x 5’ 6 ¼”

(257 x 168 cm), Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.

Lorenzo Monaco:

Coronation of the Virgin, 1413, tempera on panel, 8’ x 12’ 3”

(450 x 350 cm), Galleria degli Uf¿ zi, Florence, Italy.

Andrea Orcagna:

Enthroned Christ with Madonna and Saints (Strozzi Altarpiece),

1354–57, oil on panel, Church of Sta. Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.

Luca di Tommè:

Raising of Lazarus, c. 1360, Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums, Vatican

State, Rome, Italy.

Francesco Traini:

Triumph of Death, c. 1325–50, fresco, Camposanto, Pisa, Italy.

Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death.

White, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250–1400.

1. Describe the ways that the Black Death inÀ uenced painting in the 14th
   century in Italy.


2. What elements of the International style depend on earlier painting?

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