FAH230H1 Lecture Notes - Pisanello, Champmol, Scrovegni Chapel
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Renaissance concept coined by petrarch: nostalgia for ancient rome + greece. Simone martini, frontispiece for petrarch"s copy of vergil, manuscript illumination, c. New historical awareness: concept of difference btwn his contemporaries + past. There are many continuities btwn medieval + renaissance art. Giotto, arena chapel, padua, fresco 1306, commissioned by enrico scrovegni. Guitto, arena chapel, padua, fresco 1306, commissioned by scrovegni. 3 scenes w/ narrative scenes of jesus + virgin mary. Right: kiss of judas: violence of human emotion (judas" contorted face) vs. peacefulness of divine peace (jesus" calm profile) Narrative realism: presents ppl in diff positions (not just profile + front) Duccio, rucellai madonna, tempera on panel, commissioned 1285. Byzantine tradition but also complex use of 3d space. Duccio, maesta, tempera on panel, 1308-111, central panel. Duccio (slide #3): figures + architecture are proportionate to another. The virgin and child enthroned with saints, front part of maesta,
