1.1_Medivial_Era

Eras of Art Medieval Era GROUP 1 : BEA SALES, BON DAZA , DRAECO QUIZON, FRANCESCA WONG, ANUSHA MENON, HART RUSTIA

Points of Discussion Topics to be Covered Brief History of the Era Artists of the Era Cimabue Giotto Duccio MEDIEVAL ERA

Brief History The Middle Ages or medieval period lasted of the Era approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries MEDIEVAL ERA Art style: Combination of heritage of the Roman Empire, the early Christian church, and the \"barbarian\" artistic culture of Northern Europe. Media used: Valuable and precious materials. Many artworks feature gold, jewels, expensive pigments, and other precious goods. Symbolism is important because of illiteracy.

Cimabue Artist of the Era

The Flagellation of Christ AKA Christ at the Column or the Scourging at the Pillar This painting depicts the Flagellation of Christ. In the painting, Christ, naked but for a loincloth, is bound to a marble column that rises up the centre of the scene, dividing it into two halves. He is being flogged by two figures, one to either side, in the clothing of jarringly cheerful colours. The anguished Christ regards the viewer calmly MEDIEVAL ERA

Virgin Enthroned with Angels AKA Maestà or Santa Trinita Madonna and Child Enthroned Set against a gleaming gold leaf background, Mary and Christ sit on a monumental throne fashioned of intricately carved wood and studded with gems. The curved steps of the throne lead the eye back into the fictional space Cimabue creates, making it seem as though the figures occupy real space. The large throne also allows Cimabue to place the Virgin and the eight angels that surround her at the top of the composition, foreshortening the front parts of the throne and bringing them closer to the viewer, creating the illusion of depth on the painting’s flat surface. MEDIEVAL ERA

Madonna di Castelfiorentino AKA Madonna with child On a gold background Mary, half-length in the pose of the Virgin Hodegetria, wears the blue cloak furrowed with Byzantine chrysographies enlivened by the agemina, and the red Martyrion under it. The virgin holds a Child in her arms who moves her arms and legs and caresses her mother's face with one hand. The baby's dress, of a rare pink-violet, is characterized by a drapery with delicate highlights, more voluminous than Maria's blue mantle. Furthermore, Jesus is wrapped in a transparent veil of great refinement, perhaps an anticipation of the loincloth of the Crucifix of Santa Croce . MEDIEVAL ERA

Christ Mocked The scene follows the biblical account in Matthew 27:27–30. Jesus, in red robe and blue cloak, is standing at the centre of the composition, with his eyes uncovered in the Byzantine style (in contemporary depictions from Northern Europe, he would be seated and blindfolded) He is impassive, with arms limp and a sorrowful expression, among a crowd of slightly shorter men who are angrily striking Christ with rods, a sheathed sword, or their bare hands; one appears to be reaching up to remove Christ's halo. To either side stands a person with a sheathed sword; buildings in the background in Byzantine reverse perspective frame the scene under a luminous gold sky. MEDIEVAL ERA

Giotto Artist of the Era

Lamentation of Christ (1306) The Lamentation traditionally show Jesus’ body, having been removed from the cross, being mourned by family members and friends MEDIEVAL ERA

The Last Judgement (1306) This extensive depiction of the Last Judgment in the west of the church is dominated by the large Christ in Majesty at its centre. The twelve apostles sit to His left and to His right. Here the two levels divide: the heavenly host appears above, people plunge into the maw of hell below, or are led by angels towards heaven. MEDIEVAL ERA

Adoration of the Magi (1305) The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him. MEDIEVAL ERA

Duccio Artist of the Era

Maestà (1308) Maestà of Duccio is an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena by the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna and is his most famous work. The front panels make up a large enthroned Madonna and Child with saints and angels, and a predella of the Childhood of Christ with prophets. The reverse has the rest of a combined cycle of the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ in a total of forty-three small scenes; several panels are now dispersed or lost. The base of the panel has an inscription that reads (in translation): \"Holy Mother of God, be thou the cause of peace for Siena and life to Duccio because he painted thee thus.\" MEDIEVAL ERA

Madonna and Child (1300) The painting ‘Madonna and Child’ is 8 feet in width and 11 feet in length. It beautifully depicts Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ bearing the infant Jesus. It was painted in tempera and gold on wood panels around the year 1300. MEDIEVAL ERA

The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew (1308–1311) This colorful panel painting depicts an episode early in Jesus’s career–the moment he called Peter and his brother Andrew to join his ministry. It was part of an enormous altarpiece for the cathedral of Siena. MEDIEVAL ERA

Thank you !

SOURCES https://www.canva.com/design/DAEiHbSx9LM/Q1EX2cTIeURQAN9M0s3lvA/edit https://32minutes.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/looking-at-giottos-the-lamentation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maest%C3%A0_(Duccio) http://www.ethnicpaintings.com/famous-paintings/madona-child.html https://alonglook-slowart.com/the-calling-of-the-apostles-peter-and-andrew-by- duccio-di-buoninsegna/