francis and angel facing each other relates to rest of setting (francis shown turning which assumes he had been looking towards altar) Significance: difficult scene to depict compositionally since s. Significance: very thoughtful composing of a long wall in narrow chapel (takes audience POV very seriously), architecture used as framing device, figures with backs to audience absorb viewers in the scene Location: Bardi Chapel, Church of Santa Croce, Florence Significance: enrico scrovegni shown offering chapel to two aspects of the virgin mary (charity and annunciate) and gabriel on the feats of the annunciation (day the chapel was dedicated) a beam of sunlight comes through the chapel and lands on portrait of scrovegni Significance: shows Giotto's power to create the illusion of sculpture from painting, viewer positioned in between virtues and vices, figure of charity recieving gifts from hevean recalls point of the chapel as apology for reginaldo's greed Significance: shows Giotto's power to create the illusion of sculpture from painting, viewer positioned in between virtues and vices Significance: psychology gives way to raw emotion, dramatic staging (hill rolls down to face of christ, dead tree punctuates death and rebirth, anonymous figures with backs to viewers allow audience to be incoroporated in to the scene), illustrates how grief is part of the theology of salvation Significance: builds drama and suspense by using two panels, uses composition to highlight plot and emotion Significance: much less schematic than contemporary work, greater attention to emotion and human psychology (shown in posture, expressions, staging), architecture and surrounding space coreographed, very emotional kiss Significance: much less schematic than contemporary work, greater attention to emotion and human psychology (shown in posture, expressions, staging) Significance: shows complex architectural elements, much less schematic than contemporary work, greater attention to emotion and human psychology (shown in posture, expressions, staging) Title: Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple Significance: very impressive visual coherence (done all at once, meant to articulate the means for human redemption) From a banking family, wanted to atone for his father's–Reginaldo-sin of usury (as highlighted by Dante) Significance: Christus patiens, more realistic depiction of weight Significance: More naturalistic, attention to depth, perspective Significance: more in Byzantine style, little concern about depth, naturalism and perspective Location: Church of the Santa Trinita, Florence Patron: Government of Florence and private citizens for Dominican order large central nave to accomodate big crowds, ritual focus on altar. Significance: emblematic of the rise and power of the francescan movement. Patron: Government of Florence and private citizens for Francescan order francis's in the emphasis on the mortality of christ asa human being Significance: christus patiens (suffering christ), body and blood yield more to gravity, auxiliary scenes reduced to just mary and john the evangelist, reflects ideology of s. Location: Church of Santa Croce, Florence Significance: christus triumphans (triumphant christ) model (no appearance of death or suffering), said to be the crucifix that spoke to s. francis as alter christus, symbolic juxtaposition of prayerful nature and bustling urban centers, flat, schematic, linear (not volumetric or naturalistic), deeply informed by byzantine painting and mosaics Significance: example of rebirth of classical style, much less schematic than typical gothic figures, reminiscent of hercules (not accidental-shows pisa's desire to see itself as the new rome) Significance: packs a lot in with remarkable clarity, recalls ancient sarcophagi, represents volume and depthin relief (uses deep carving, s hifting scales, textural details), shows an intrest in naturalism, first bath recalls baptisms, demonstrates new gothic naturalism with classical influences Title: Nativity panel, Pisa Baptistry Pulpit Significance: housed the holiest relics of the papacy, renovated after earthquake by pope nicholas III, expensive porhery columns, paintings of saints connected to relics housed in the chapel demonstrates new gothic naturalism and classical influences. uncommonly ambitious and sophisticated (royal lions, corinthian columns, gothic-style lobed arches, five virtues and john the baptist). meant to relate to the baptistry it is housed in. Significance: made with architecture very much in mind. Location of origin: Pisa Cathedral Baptistry
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