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    Giotto di Bondone‚ Madonna and Child Enthroned (ca. 1310)‚ 10’ 6” Cimabue‚ Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets (ca. 1280-1290)‚ 12’ 7” X 7’ 4”. Madonna and Child with Angels and Prophets‚ an alter piece standing some 12 feet and 7 inches tall‚ was created around 1280-1290 A.D. for the Church of Santa Trinità in Florence‚ Italy and is now in the Galleria delgi Uffizi Florence. This iconographical piece was constructed through tempera and gold leaf on wood by Cimabue‚ an Italian

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    Comparison between the Crucifixes’ of Cimabue and Giotto HU 200: Humanities Chris Wright May 4‚ 2014 Brookline College Comparison between the Crucifixes’ of Cimabue and Giotto I come from a Roman Catholic household in which we had a crucifix in every room. I asked my mother why one day and she told me that having a wall crucifix in every room where your family gathers‚ as well as in every bedroom just above the doorway‚ was a great visual reminder of God’s

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    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

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    and feelings. First‚ In Cimabue‚ you have little feeling of extraordinary expansions. The heavenly attendants to the side of the virgin are stacked upon each other‚ instead of subsiding in space. It stays hazy how the Virgin sits on the pad on her position of authority. Most strikingly‚ the prophets in the specialties at the base are shown from the same point from the Virgin above. Numerous perspectives along these lines exist together in a similar arrangement. Second‚ Giotto rather organizes the points

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    Giotto di Bondone was one of the first recognized artist during the Italian Renaissance. He’s often referred to as the father of the Renaissance. He influenced many artists in his time some of them were‚ Masaccio‚ Michaelangelo‚ and Raphael. The exact date of Giotto di Bondone’s birth is unknown but it is thought to be around 1266 in Vespigano‚ Italy‚ near Florence. Little is known about Di Bondone’s childhood and family. He exhibited great talent from a very young age and became an apprentice

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    Cimabue’s work‚ it is debatable whether his apprentice Giottos surpassed the man. In manners of skill‚ Giotto’s more classical and naturalist style took on other stylistic components that very well exhibited a 3-dimensional space upon a 2-dimensional plane. In personal opinion‚ if the goal was to surpass Cimabue‚ then Giotto definitely showed prowess by giving his figure of the virgin a more assertive and realistic presence. Both Cimabue and Giotto use the ever-common gold background to unify their pieces

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    GIOTTO DI BONDONE Giotto Di Bondone was born around 1267 near Florence‚ Italy. He was an Italian painter and architect better known as Giotto. He married in 1827 to Ricevuta di Lapo del Pela and had several children together. Its said that he was a very ugly man and that is children were also very plain in appearance. Reconstruction shows him as a very short man with a large head and a hooked nose. It is said that he died on January 8‚ 1337 in Florence‚ but as with almost everything else in

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    Giotto Vs Duccio

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    After closely studying the fresco The Flight into Egypt by Giotto‚ the tempera panel The Rucellai Madonna by Duccio and the gilding The Annunciation by Martini‚ it is evident that the content and style of each painting is influenced majorly by the process in which it was created. Discussed will be the extent to which I believe these paintings are affected by the medium they are created from‚ with specific evidence. The artist Giotto could be described most accurately‚ although amongst other things

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    Giotto was very well known throughout the world and looked up to by many other aspiring artists. Boorstin illustrates the idea that Giotto had changed the way of thinking during that society by defying the usual way of painting religious scenes. Boorstin describes his way in the sense that he was “saying something new in an old vocabulary.” He changed it from very bland artwork‚ into storytelling and more visual scenes. Boorstin also says how Giotto had begun to defy the arts by drawing things with

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    Giotto Giotto‚ who was described by Boccaccacio as "the world’s best painter" redesigned art with his rediscovery of the third dimension. His paintings gave a new birth to measurable space and the natural appearances of surfaces. Giotto‚ an Italian painter‚ lived from 1267-1337 and spent his life working on religious art and brought a third dimension to his figures. Previous art that was done in the Byzantine era was two-dimensional and the human shape was flat and done in traditional poses

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