ARTH 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rood Screen, Confraternity, Hodegetria
24 Nov 2016
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Provide a web of social relations beyond the family: started connecting people in the communities rather than just familial, singing rituals. Bardi - one of the wealthiest bankers in florence. Fest of herod, 1320s: seems to open out to you from the opening of the chapel - perspective is off but he is painting knowing his environment. Contract was v specific, what he should use and what he should paint. Installation day was a huge celebration, a feast, the day was a holiday, there was a huge procession for this painting from duccio"s workshop to the cathedral. This is a synthesis of the marian (shows virgin enthroned) panel and the polyptych (many panels) altarpiece. Saints surrounding the virgin enthroned: they highlight certain key saints that were important to the sienese people: Ansanus, savino, crescenzio and victor (closest to virgin) they were the patron saints of siena: duccio claimed his fame in this image.
