Description
1. Use our online course resources, or “google images”, to find and post a work of Late Medieval Art from 1280 AD-1440 AD. Describe the qualities that make the work “Late Medieval.” Your work does not have to be of European origin. You may choose a work of art from any culture that was created 1280-1440AD.
2. Be sure to include the artist, title, date, and material as a identification label.
3. Post once regarding one of your classmates choices- tell them why you enjoy the work of art they choose!
If an image has already been posted by your classmate, please choose a different image. We will together assemble a gallery of Late Medieval imagery!
Here is an example of mine:
Duccio, The Rucellai Madonna, 1285, Tempera and Gold on Panel:
Duccio’s Rucellai Madonna is a quintessential example of the Late Medieval, or Byzantine, style of painting in Siena, Italy. The composition features a hierarchy of scale, so that the Madonna, who is the most important figure, is the largest. She sits enthroned, holding the Christ child, and flanked by angels in stacked perspective. Space is shallow, mitigated by the gold background, and there is little sense of depth in the composition. However, despite this general lack of space, the Madonna’s throne is shown at an angle, and displays a small inkling of nascent perspective. Her blue robes are absent of a gold byzantine-net pattern, giving Duccio the opportunity for Duccio to model the Madonna’s knee, and give the slight impression of a third dimension. The altarpiece is large, and was meant to inspire the devotion of christians in a church. Though firmly grounded in the late medieval style, Duccio exhibits small steps toward an eventual cultural adoption of Reniassance Naturalism.
