ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine
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Maesta (italian: majesty ): iconic formula of enthroned madonna with the child. Jesus- mary sitting in a throne, holding her baby. Italian humanism (emphasis on human values/emotions & interests distinct from other wordly religious values) Increased interest in antiquity & study of roman sculpture, literature,philosophy, and sciences: growing naturalism of figures & spaces (observation of the natural world, cimabue (florence): italo-byzantine; flatness, frontal figures, symmetry, Italians known by first names patterning and gold. Angels (front view) flanking mary & jesus, presenting throne to audience, wearing feathers on bottom to show holiness. Linear (byzantine: giotto (florence) anticipates renaissance; 3d stability and solidity, mass, figures in profile. More 3d, walls of the throne look like doors opening. Angels (profile view) engaged with mary & jesus, in awe/reverence/prayer, have halos but look like people. Trick of the eye with marble steps leading up to throne, show space by overlapping angels (halo of one blocking face of the other)
