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Giotto Kiss Of Judas
ANALYSIS OF AN ART OBJECT
Giotto’s “Kiss of Judas” 1306 Arena chapel Padua
The Scrovegni Chapel is an unpretentious building that was built out of pink brick and was commissioned by Enrico Degli Scrovegni as a family chapel (Roberts, 1998). It tried to bring out how the ancient Roman arena looked like. The arena chapel is found in Italy at a place known as Padua, Veneto. Its interior wall is decorated all over by a sequential series of fresco painting that illustrates the life of the Virgin Mary and the life of Jesus Christ. The painting was done in between the year 1303 and 1310 (Roberts, 1998). The theme depicted in the picture is whether Salvation is possible; this was due to the intention in which the chapel was built. The chapel was intended to offset the sins amassed by the …show more content…
The scenes are biblical scenes which mostly portray betrayal of Christ and the lamentation.
Betrayal of Christ
One of the dramas that capture everyone in Giotto’s painting which is in the Scrovegni chapel is how “The Kiss of Judas” is portrayed: that moment when Jesus Christ was betrayed by Judas Iscariot in the Garden of Gethsemane (Barbiero, 2010). The picture shows the passion which Giotto brought to the painting of biblical scenes by his stress on the drama that occurred during the occasion. Even though many other artists showed the actual kiss, Giotto’s art is different because it shows the powerful face to face encounter between Jesus and Judas.
Giotto place Jesus and Judas in the centre of the crowd to capture the chaos and confusion that is caused by the arrest of Jesus Christ. Judas places his hands on Christ’s shoulder, raising his treacherous yellow cloak in the process. By drawing them this way, it brings out the effect of momentarily placing both men in eyeball to eyeball situation as if they both need each other to fulfill their
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