CAS AH 112- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 183 pages long!)

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

Document Summary

The idee of the reneissence, i: fourteenth-century itelien art. Slides: 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. Assisi: 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 irst artists to break away from the maniera greca. Byzantine models, cimabue depicted the madonna"s massive throne as receding into space. His igures 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, virgin and child enthroned. Byzantine painting, but relaxed the rigidity and frontality of the igures, softened the drapery, and individualized the faces: duccio, detail from the back of the maest . Scrovegni), padua, 1305-6: giotto, lamentation. c. 1305, arena chapel.