Saint-Denis, Ambulatory, France, begun 1140 Rib Vaults Lux Nova Abbot Sujer
Saint-Denis, Ambulatory Vault, 1140
Chartres Cathedral, France, 1134
Royal Portal, Chartres Cathedral, 1145-55
St. Trophim, Romanesque
Old Testament Kings, Chartres Cathedral, West Portal, 1145-55 Jambs
Saints Theodore, Martin, Jerome, and Gregory, Jamb statues, South Transept, Chartres Cathedral, 1220-1230 High Gothic Gothic Sway
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, Classical Greece
La Belle Verrière, Chartres Cathedral, ca. 1170
Rose Window Lancets
Lux Nova
Chartres Cathedral, Nave View
Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont, and Renaud de Cormont, Amiens Cathedral Nave, begun 1220
Beau Dieu, Amiens Cathedral, trumeau statue, 1220-1235
Notre Dame de Paris, France, 1180-1260 Flying Buttresses Notre Dame de Paris, France, 1180-1260
Saint Chapelle, Paris, 1243-48 Ile de la Cité Palatine chapel
Saint Chapelle, Interior Rayonnant style Mullions
Salisbury Cathedral, England, 1220-1260
Death of the Virgin, Strasbourg Cathedral, Germany, 1230
Röttgen Pietà, Germany, 1300-1325
Milan Cathedral, Italy, begun 1386
Nicola Pisano, The Annunciation and the Nativity, Pisa Baptistery Pulpit, Italy, 1260
Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets, Florence, Italy, ca.1285 Italo-Byzantine Tempera
Giotto di Bondone, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints, Florence, Italy, ca. 1300 Empirical Naturalism Modeling Student of Cimabue, style is apparent, Giotto takes this step into the renaissance even further Italo-Byzantine styles, gold, pasty skin, halos Close observation of nature Led a movement based on an empirical approach to science “The visual world must be observed before it can be analyzed and understood.” Heavy, 3-d mass of a body, Architectural throne is like an altarpiece itself Posture, drapery folds, Succeeds at painting a 2d image that has 3d qualities with solid body mass Pushed forward to give prominence to her
Giotto, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy, 1303-05 Buon Fresco Sinopia Entonico Giornate Grisaille Lapis Lazuli Property of Enrico Scrovegni, Wealthy merchant Giotto was a muralist-Buon Fresco What isn’t finished must be discarded and redone the next day Very skilled and very fast to do this Giotto became rich and famous as the best fresco artist in the business Sky shows medalions of saints and a blue sky
Giotto, The Lamentation, Arena Chapel, 1306 Foreshortening Chiaroscuro Giotto, gives us a very theatrical dramatic view of the death of Christ at the moment Mary views his body Highly emotionally charged due to facial expression and human gestures that Giotto witnessed Foreshortening is a way to show 3-d on a 2-d surface-angels Natural light source shining the same on all objects Theatrics-people with their backs to us draw us in We are asked to identify with one of several emotions-gendered emotions