ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Leon Battista Alberti, Verisimilitude, Felice Brancacci
Document Summary
Margaritone d"arezzo, madonna and child enthroned, c. 1270, tempera on panel. Inspired by byzantine icons (which perform miracles) Iconography (subject matter): virgin and child sitting on a throne. Style: geometric patterning, motifs, linear, not a lot of shading/modeling, stability, minimal movement (they will be sitting here forever) Cimabue, virgin and child with angels, 1280-85, tempera on panel. Function: altarpiece for the church of santa trinita . Iconography: same image of enthroned mary and christ. Composition: mary and christ in foreground, angels in the background, gold pushes the figures into our space. Style: linear, geometric patterning, showing depth by fitting figures in front of one another, minimal movement. Giotto, ognissanti madonna and child, c. 1310, tempera on panel. Function: altarpiece for the church of ognissanti (all saints) Altarpiece: a panel that is painted or sculptured representing a religious subject that is placed above and behind an altar in a church.
