Crucifix - Giotto Mainly

Crucifixes

Explain:
    Crucifixes started with the School of Pisa where the purpose of the crucifix was to present an image of a powerful deity who could overcome the torment of the Crucifixion (Christ triumphant) - eventually showed the suffering Chris
    Crucifix usually displayed the high emotional content of their painters - i.e. Coppo di Marcovaldo relfects his wartime experiences
    Cimabue - big Byzantine influence in his Crucifix (destroyed by flood in 1966)
    Giotto's SM Novella Crucifix drew an intense empathetic response from the viewer
    Giotto banished the Byzantine manner and revived the modern and good art of painting, introducing the portraying well from nature of living people, which had not been used to more than two hundred years
    Giotto's Crucifix was similar to that of Cimabue's
        Same background, frame, and people on the sides of the cross, but Giotto brought back the 3-dimensionality of the human form. Christ hangs in space - very physical and very human


Model:
    Instead of the common human form that is very 2-dimensional that all artists had been using for the crucifixes.. Giotto redefines human physicalities in paintings - and brings back the natural form that used to be painted of humans.

Analyze:

    Giotto banished the Byzantine manner and revived the modern and good art of painting, introducing the portraying well from nature of living people, which had not been used to more than two hundred years - influenced the art form of that era



-Kelsey Masuda