CAS AH 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Santa Croce, Florence, Santa Maria Del Carmine, Florence, Sandro Botticelli

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

Document Summary

The idea of the renaissance, i: fourteenth-century italian art. Bonaventura berlinghieri, panel from the st. francis altarpiece, 1235. Italo-byzantine style, or maniera greca, for the mendicant (begging) order of franciscans. It is the earliest securely dated portrayal of. Detail of st. francis altarpiece, 1235: st. francis preaching to the birds. Cimabue, madonna enthroned with angels and prophets, c. 1280-90. Cimabue was one of the first artists to break away from the maniera greca. Cimabue depicted the madonna"s massive throne as receding into space. Trecento: the chief concerns of italian humanists, as their name suggests, were human values and interests as distinct from but not opposed to religion"s otherworldly values. Humanists pointed to classical cultures as particularly praiseworthy. Giotto displaced the byzantine style in italian painting and revived classical naturalism. His figures 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 .