Medieval Art
What are the characteristics of Medieval Art?
• Disproportionate (body parts wrong) • Perspective absent or wrong• All faces the same, unrealistic• 2 dimensional, flat, and dull• Religious themes• Hieratic Scale• 180 degree relief statues• Storytelling, either about religion or
warfare• Tempera Paint
Madonna EnthronedBy Giovanni Cimabue 1280-90
Madonna Enthroned, Duccio 1308-1311
AnnunciationAnnunciationSimon Martini, 1333Simon Martini, 1333
How did artists show importance?
• Medieval – Hieratic scale
• Hieratic Scale – most important is BIG
• Renaissance – placement of figure
• Placing figure in center makes viewer eye move there
• Medieval• Hieratic Scale• Gold Background
Represents heaven
• Halos represent holinessJacopa di CioneMadonna and Child in Glory1360/65Tempera and gold on panel
• Use of perspective
• Gold still in background
• Halo there but less prominent
• Hieratic Scale?
Franconian SchoolMiraculous Mass of St. Martin of Toursabout 1440Tempera
• Hieratic Scale?
• Background?• People
surrounding Jesus & Mary
• Realistic
Giovanni Agostino da LodiAdoration of the ShepherdsAbout 1505Italian, active about 1467 - about 1524Oil on wood panel
St. Francis in the Desertc. 1480Tempera and oil on panel