CAS AH 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Santa Maria Del Carmine, Florence, Santa Maria Delle Grazie (Milan), Hugo Van Der Goes

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

Document Summary

Giotto displaced the byzantine style in italian painting and revived classical naturalism. His figures have substance, dimensionality, and bulk, and create the illusion that they could throw shadows. Duccio, virgin and child enthroned with saints, principal panel of the maest altarpiece, 1309-11. Duccio derived the formality and symmetry of his composition from. Byzantine painting, but relaxed the rigidity and frontality of the figures, softened the drapery, and individualized the faces. Campin was the leading painter of tournai and an early master of oil painting. Annunciation in a flemish merchant"s home in which many objects have symbolic significance. Jan van eyck, ghent altarpiece, completed 1432, st. bavo. Monumental painted altarpieces were popular in flemish churches. Artists decorated both the interiors and exteriors of these polyptychs, which often, as here, included donor portraits. The husband and wife, in paired niches with gothic tracery, kneel with their hands clasped in prayer.