Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Sala del Pace

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

1338-40

Fresco

Annunciation

Simone Martini

Siena Cathedral

1329-33

tempera on panel

Annunciation of the Shepherds

Taddeo Gaddi

Baroncelli Chapel

Santa Croce, Florence

1332-38

Bad Government and its Effects in the City and Country

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Sala Del Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

1338-40

Birth of the Virgin

Pietro Lorenzetti

Siena Cathedral

1335-42

tempera on panel

Enthroned Madonna and Child

Cimabue

Sata Trinita, Florence

1280's

Tempera on Panel

Crucifixtion (back)

Maesta: for the high alter of the Siena Cathedral

1308-11

Tempera on panel

Death of St. Francis

Giotto

Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence

1320's

Fresco

Effects of Good Government in the City and Country

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Sala del Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

1338-40

Fresco

Enthroned Madonna  (front)

Duccio

Maesta, for the high alter of the Siena Cathedral

1301-11

Tempera on panel

Enthroned Madonna and Child

Duccio

Rucellai Madonna, Florence

1285

Tempera on panel

Enthroned Madonna and Child

Giotto

Ognissanti Madonna, Florence

1310-15

Tempera on Panel

Expulsion of Yoachim

Giotto

Arena Chapel/ Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

1303-05

Fresci

Lamenation

Giotto

Arena Chapel/ Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

1303-05

Fresci

Maesta

Simone Martini

Sala del Mappamondo/ Sala del Consiglio

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

1315

Fresco

Meeting at the Golden Gate

Giotto

Arena Chapel/ Scrovegni Chapel, Padua

1303-05

Fresco

Palazzo Vecchio

Florence

1299-1310

San Damiano Crucifix

12th c.

Tempera on Panel

St. Francis (1181- 1226)

-          Identify with Christ’s poverty and suffering

-          Founded religious orders

-          Mendicants: beggars

 -          Franciscans: divinity or nature; identification with Christ’s life

Jacopo da Voragine

The Golden Legend

1260's

Disegno

In both a small and large sense

Fresco:

Arriccio

Intonaco

Sinopia

A Secco

Giornata

Ultra Marine Blue

o        Arriccio- rough plaster

o        Sinopia- underdrawing

o        Intonace- fresh plaster

o        Giornata- day’s work

o        A secco- dry (ultramarine blue applied this way)

devotion to one’s religion, city, neighborhood

Takes its name from a bell tower that is attached from a cathedral

Cristus Triumphans

vs

Cristus Patiens

San damiano crucifix

-          12^th century

-          Christus triumphants

o        He is triumphant

o        Emphasizes notion of ever-lasting life

-          La maniera greca (byzantine art)

Christus patiens

-          Suffering Christ

o        Weighted down by death

o        Communicates sadness

-          Cimabue

-          Crucifix

-          1280’s

-          Santa croce, Florence

-          Commissioned by the franciscans

§         Typology

·         Christian system of pairing events and people of the old testament with those of the new testament

o        Pre-figuration

·         Originated in the bible itself when Christ asserted that he is a new Solomon

·         God’s grand scheme for the universe

foreshortening

&

Chiaroscuro