ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Uffizi, Allsaints, Hieratic

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2 May 2018

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Week 2

Time: works of art made in the early 1300s can also be said to be made in the early 14th century.

By: Giotto

Name: Virgin and Child Enthroned

Year: 1305-1310

• Portable Work of art: it can be moved around as necessary

• Commissioned for the All-Saints Church in Florence where important events and rituals took

place – made for the high altar (he knew it was being made for a very important location)

• It now sits at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence therefore no longer in situ

• Altarpiece: A Christian devotional image made specifically for the context of a religious altar

space

• Hieratic: he used differing scales for figures, most important figures much larger then the other

figures of less important

• Foreground: part of the scee that’s losest too us

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