CAS AH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cimabue, Filippo Villani, Enrico Degli Scrovegni

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 112
• Professor: Fred Kleiner

Document Summary

The idea of the renaissance, i: fourteenth-century italian art. Bonaventura berlinghieri, panel from the st. francis altarpiece, 1235. Italo-byzantine style, or maniera greca, for the mendicant (begging) order of franciscans. It is the earliest securely dated portrayal of saint francis of. Detail of st. francis altarpiece, 1235: st. francis preaching to the birds. Cimabue, madonna enthroned with angels and prophets, c. 1280-90. Cimabue was one of the first artists to break away from the maniera greca. Byzantine models, cimabue depicted the madonna"s massive throne as receding into space. Trecento: the chief concerns of italian humanists, as their name suggests, were human values and interests as distinct from but not opposed to religion"s otherworldly values. Humanists pointed to classical cultures as particularly praiseworthy. His figures have substance, dimensionality, and bulk, and create the illusion that they could throw shadows. with saints, principal panel of the maest altarpiece, 1309-11. Duccio derived the formality and symmetry of his composition from.