Giotto
Essays

This paper compares and contrasts two paintings by Cimabue and Giotto. Though the subjects are similar (the enthronement of the Madonna), the styles and effects are different. Cimabue tends to reflect the traditional Byzantine school, while Giotto moves toward a new school of expression known as realism and naturalism.

Giotto's fresco of Christ's nativity graces the walls of the Scrovegni Chapel, also known as the Arena Chapel because of its proximity to the ancient Roman structure in Padua. The fresco depicts Christ as an infant…

Giovanni Cimabue's tempera and gold-on-wood Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels was painted in Byzantine style between the years of 1285-1290. Giotto di Bondone's tempera and gold-on-wood Madonna Enthroned was…

This paper examines the way Giotto used his new realistic artistic expression to teach religious stories to contemporary congregations. In an age where the real truths of the Faith and the teachings of the Church were under attack by heretics, Giotto sought to make Church stories seem real and true through naturalistic expression.

Masaccio's Holy Trinity And Giotto Di Bondone's Lamentation

Giotto's depiction of the Kiss of Judas, on the wall of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, was painted in the early years of the fourteenth century -- it is a religious illustration, meant to gloss the moment in Christ's…

The Arena Chapel (Scrovegni) of Giotto (1303) and Duccio's Maesta (1308) are both masterpieces of medieval European art. The Arena chapel contains the fresco cycle and is indicative of the movement towards a more…