CASPER Andrew ART 188 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
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CASPER Andrew ART 188 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Giotto: Ognissanti Altarpiece
-From Gothic to Renaissance
-Florentine
-tempera and gold on wood panel
-Cimabue discovered talented shepherd boy, Giotto, taught him to paint
-worked for the Franciscans, absorbed aspects of their ...
-Gone, is Mary's modestly inclined head and delicate gold folds of drapery
-holding her child's leg instead of pointing, less contrived (forced)
-colossal Mary overwhelms her slender gothic small throne
-angels are substantial solids, foreshortened postures project from foreground toward us, unlike
Cimabue - ANSWERS
Cimabue, Virgin and child enthroned (Santa Trinità Altarpiece)
-From Gothic to Renaissance
-Florentine
-tempera and gold on wood panel
-new precedent for monumental altarpieces
-Mary looking out at the viewer while gesturing toward her son as the path to salvation (popular in
byzantine iconography)
, -highlights on the drapery of Mary, Jesus, and angels w thin gold lines, as if to capture divine radiance
-viewer seems suspended in space
-attention to spatial volumes
-use of delicate modeling in light and shade to simulate 3D form
-efforts to give naturalistic warmth to human figures (all had an impact on future development of
Florentine painting) - ANSWERS
Giotto, Lamentation - ANSWERS
Giotto, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel
-Icon vs. Narrative
-Florentine
-frescoes
-Padua, Italy
-chapel commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni
-family money made by usury-charging interest when loaning money (sinful)
-building of Arena Chapel in part a penitential act, atone his father and his sins
-called Giotto in to decorate- goal were to express his power, sophistication, prestige, as well to atone for
sins
-grisaille: monochrome paintings in shades of gray
-band of medallion spans vault, blue, star-spangled sky large portrait disks float like moons
-ind. scenes and overall program display giotto's genius for distilling complex stories into series of
compelling moments
-concentrates on human dimension of unfolding drama
-prodigious narrative skills - ANSWERS
Duccio, Maestà Altarpiece
-Art and Society in Fourteenth century Siena
-brilliant jewel-like colors and elegantly posed figures
-This piece had predella which is a narrative panel below, Helped tell stories to the illiterate
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