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This blog is an art history experiment for our Italian Renaissance travel course. We hope that you, our visitors, will not only take some time to read about what we are studying, but will ALSO feel free to make comments or ask us questions...especially after we see (most of) these things in person. As we travel, we will offer personal reflections on our experiences. After we fly out on the 17th, follow us as we visit Rome (May 18-20), Florence (20-24), and Venice (24-25). We return on Thursday, May 26...just in time for the holiday weekend.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Cimabue- Madonna Enthroned



Cimabue:
Active from 1272-1302, in Florence
Name means “dehorner of oxen”
Last Italio-byzantine painter
A slight transition towards naturalism

Madonna Enthroned: 
Commissioned by Santa Trinita for altar piece 
Ambiguous, flattened space, no mass
Traditional Byzantine style (gold background and lined drapery)
Complicated patterning & ornament
Followed up by Giotto’s Madonna Enthroned which added a sense of mass
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