Cimabue Triangle

Final Project
Laura Wittwer

Throughout history artists have been drawn to epicenters of art for numerous reasons. In these gatherings art movements have been formed. The three main centers and movements focused on here are the Venice-Florence-Venice triangle, which brought us the Renaissance and High Renaissance period. Paris, which attracted artists who began the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism movement and New York where Abstract Expressionism emerged.

The artists of the high Renaissance were centered around the cities of Florence, Milan, Venice, Padua, Madua and Rome, giving rise to an area known as the Rome-Florence-Venice triangle. The Renaissance period followed the Middle Ages. It was a period when many of the great masterpieces
He was the first artist to be recognized as moving towards naturalism and began painting his subject matter with more lifelike proportions and shapes. Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337), one of Cimabue’s students, was known as one of the greatest artists in Florence. He brought to life paintings with dimension before science was really discovered a century later. His paintings draw more accurately from life and he depicted a more natural and realistic reflection of his subjects. His painting of Ognissanti Madonna 1306-10 shows Madonna as the central figure. Her figure is evident through her clothing, giving it a more lifelike look. Christ again as a baby is shown looking like a small baby and not a miniature adult. The angels knelt in the front are shown as small continuing the significance perspective many artist prior had done. A later painting again by Giotto, the Madonna and Child 1320-30 shows the mother gazing off into the distance, somewhere else; maybe into the future with the foreknowledge of the child’s fate. Renaissance art focused on portraying the natural form with human figures having dimension and weight. Whereas in contrast Byzantine art can be described as stylized and not duplicating that we see in real
He is sat alone in the front on the steps writing, which reflects his apparently solitary life. He is shown as a large figure, whilst the other characters as much smaller in stature. At the time that Raphael was painting this fresco Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel and he was used as the model for Heraclitus. On the left of the picture we can see Pythagoras, the great associated harmony and numbers and science. He is shown teaching a group of scholars as the gather around him, highly engaged. The painting has a whimsical feel of the way the characters are interacting with one another in their small groupings. It is an amazing tribute to the celebrated Greek philosophers.

During the High Renaissance humanism reached its peak, where sculptures were created with amazing likenesses and portrait so perfectly replicated real people. The whole era captured a world of beauty and optimism. It also revealed a lot of symbolism, an interest in philosophy and the sciences, moving away from the socuer becoming more realistic. It was an era where art was transformed from the darker depictions of life reflected by the art of the middle ages, yet showed a continuation of style somewhat from the ancient Greece and Rome the beauty of the human