ART H 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reims Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral, Scrovegni Chapel
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Gothic cathedral - jamb figures chartres cathedral: figures elongated, floating feet, rigidity, solemnity, schematic faces. Bonaventura berlinghieri st. francis altarpiece 1235: on a wooden panel - painted and gilded, elongated again, face is very stern and elongated, elongates figures, close to byzantine mosaic style. Italian byzantine style: again with the floating/levitation, the space is pretty filled. Pantocrator church of the dormition daphni, greece c. 1100: byzantine mosaic. Bonaventura berlinghieri st. francis altarpiece (detail) 1235. Berlinghiero madonna and child c. 1230: very long fingers, linear face not planar, gold background, stern expression. Cimabue madonna enthroned with angels and prophets c. 1280 1290: main example of italian-byzantine style!, long/linear drapery, throne unifiess the space. Convex and concave passages: modeling in the prophets - not as schematic, still filling the space, figure is very stylized and aloof. Giotto madonna and child enthroned c. 1310: panel altarpiece, he is more concerned with light!
