CAS AH 112 Final: Major Study

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

Document Summary

Quattrocento (14th cen): lat, gold, christian, attempts at 3d. Giotto displaced the byzantine style in italian painting and revived classical naturalism. His igures 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 igures, softened the drapery, and individualized the faces. Early flemish art (early 15th cen): better 3d, lots of symbolism, textures, windows, religious. Robert campin, merode altarpiece, c. 1425-8 have symbolic signiicance. 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. 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.