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    Medieval art is characterized by disproportionate body parts, lack of or incorrect perspective, two-dimensional flat surfaces, religious and military themes depicted through storytelling. Important figures were made larger through hieratic scale. Art focused on religious subjects and used symbolism like halos to represent holiness. Perspective and realism increased over time as Renaissance influences emerged.

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    Medieval art is characterized by disproportionate body parts, lack of or incorrect perspective, two-dimensional flat surfaces, religious and military themes depicted through storytelling. Important figures were made larger through hieratic scale. Art focused on religious subjects and used symbolism like halos to represent holiness. Perspective and realism increased over time as Renaissance influences emerged.

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    Medieval Art

    What are the characteristics


    of Medieval Art?
    • Disproportionate (body parts wrong)
    • Perspective absent or wrong
    • All faces the same, unrealistic
    • 2 dimensional, flat, and dull
    • Religious themes
    • Hieratic Scale
    • 180 degree relief statues
    • Storytelling, either about religion or
    warfare
    • Tempera Paint
    Madonna Enthroned
    By Giovanni Cimabue 1280-90
    Madonna Enthroned, Duccio 1308-1311
    Annunciation
    Simon Martini, 1333
    How did artists show importance?
    • Medieval – Hieratic
    scale
    • Hieratic Scale –
    most important is
    BIG
    • Renaissance –
    placement of figure
    • Placing figure in
    center makes viewer
    eye move there
    • Medieval
    • Hieratic Scale
    • Gold Background
    Represents
    heaven
    • Halos represent
    holiness
    Jacopa di Cione
    Madonna and Child in Glory
    1360/65
    Tempera and gold on panel
    • Use of
    perspective
    • Gold still in
    background
    • Halo there
    but less
    prominent
    • Hieratic
    Scale?
    Franconian School
    Miraculous Mass of
    St. Martin of Tours
    about 1440
    Tempera
    • Hieratic
    Scale?
    • Background?
    • People
    surrounding
    Jesus & Mary
    • Realistic

    Giovanni Agostino da Lodi


    Adoration of the Shepherds
    About 1505
    Italian, active about 1467 -
    about 1524
    Oil on wood panel
    St. Francis in the
    Desert
    c. 1480
    Tempera and oil
    on panel

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