ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Altera, Illuminated Manuscript, Gypsum
30 Oct 2015
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2 chronology - allows us to make cross cultural comparisons. 1305-1306 not sure when it was exactly finished, so no year on painting range of dates that historians have assigned to work. Making it for important location painting now in florence gallery, no longer in situ, transferred to protect it. This is how giotto wanted to be seen altarpiece- christian devotional image made for context of a religious altar space. Was to attract and appeal to faithful, help direct attention and support religious beliefs. Most important figures much larger than those of secondary significance (angels) and in representing this, he used hieratic technique - differing scales fo rfigures saints in backrow. 2 angels kneel in the foreground - scene closest to us. 0each hold vases of symbolic flowers (lillies and roses) symbols of vm behind them, 2 angels hold crown + box box = gift, crown = symbol reffering to christ as king.
