Medieval Art

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Medieval Art

• Early, High Middle Late
• Middle

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Medieval Art- The Age of Faith
Fig. 1.2 Duccio, Madonna and Child, 1285-1286,
Tempera on panel, Florence
Fig. 1.1 Duccio, Christ Entering Jerusalem, from
the back of the Maesta Altarpiece, 1308-11.
Tempera on panel, Siena
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Lion, from the Gospel Book of Durrow. 675 AD, Ink
on Tempera on parchment, Board Of Trinity
College, Dublin
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Medieval Art-The Age of Faith
Christ in Majesty, wall painting from the apse
of San Clemente of Tahull, Spain c. 1123 AD
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Book of Kells in the early 9th century
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ITALO-BYZANTINE STYLE-MANIERA GRECA
BONAVENTURA BERLINGHIERI, panel from the Saint
Francis Altarpiece, San Francesco, Pescia, Italy,
1235. Tempera on wood, approx. 5' x 3' x 6".
Here we find the use of Tempera
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Medieval Art
Fig. 1.3, Giotto, Christ Entering Jerusalem,
1305,Fresco, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
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Giotto, Lamentation of Christ, 1305, Arena
Chapel, Padua, Fresco
Detail from Lamentation
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Medieval Art
Fig. 1.4, Simone Martini, The Road to Calvary,
1340, Tempera, Louvre, Paris