The first artist to move beyond the Byzantine style,
He pioneered European painting: perspective, foreshortening and natural 3D shading and changed the course of painting towards what would become rennaissance art
It wasn’t that artists didn’t know how to paint a realistic scene. The Greeks had done it back in the single digits BC & AD
It was that he dared to do it. There was that commandment that said you couldn’t make an image of god. So artists walked the razor’s edge trying to keep it not to real so as not to piss off the church.
What is the title of the second image shown? I cannot find it anywhere on any search engine, but I’m sure it does not help that I’m not a fan of technology.
Hi Christina,
I pulled it off of a disc from the local library, I can’t find it on line either. Obviously it’s of the lamentation but looking closer it may not be Giotto….Masaccio maybe??
Hi danzink, can you please provide more details about the 2nd image? You said you pulled it off of a disc but I wonder if that’s the original size or you resized it. I can’t find it on line either and I am really interested in finding the whole picture. BTW, I know the colors are too much bright but the way he paints the faces and the composition lead me to think it is a Giotto painting and I don’t think it’s a Masaccio one. I’ve been searching for painting from any Giotto’s pupil (as Guariento, Giusto de’ Menabuoi, Jacopo Avanzi, and Altichiero) but found no picture like the one you posted…