Proto-Renaissance

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Name: "The Lamentation of Christ"
Date: 1305-06
Artist: Giotto (1270-1337)
Medium: Fresco mural painting
Genre: Biblical art
Movement: Proto Renaissance
Location: Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua

A new sense of space, three dimensionality, and mobility are clear in Giotto's masterpiece. The limitation

What is the Proto Renaissance? - Characteristics
In fine art, the term "Proto Renaissance" refers to the pre-Renaissance period (c.1300-1400) in Italy, and the activities of progressive painters such as Giotto (1267-1337), who pioneered the new form of figurative "realism", which was fully developed by artists during the era of Renaissence Art proper.her the art of Italy between 1200 and 1400 is the last phase medieval art or the beginning of rebirth, or Renaissance, of Greco-Roman nuturalism. Some art historians debate whet The Renaissance proper began around 1400 in the city of Florence, but its ideals and methods did not become a dominant force in European art until the mid-15th century. The main types of art practised during the Proto-Renaissance period included: fresco mural painting, tempera panel painting, book illuminations, relief sculpture, goldsmithing and other forms of metalwork. Most of the artistic developments of the trecento Proto-Renaissance period had a direct effect on Early Renaissance paintinf (c.1400-90) .


In the scene of the Lamentation, Christ's body has been cut down from the cross and is surrounded by his weeping family and friends. His head is cradled in the arms of his mother, the Virgin Mary - who is the focus of the picture - while Mary Magdalene grieves at his feet, and John the Evangelist opens his arms wide in shock and anguish.
The emotions of the mourners are expressed largely through their hands and faces, especially their mouths which seem to tremble with grief. Their bowed heads and hunched bodies add to the overall impression of misery. The human figures are given much greater three-dimensionality than normal, while Giotto also creates a convincing impression of space which lends an additional sense of reality to the picture. These three factors - (1) the naturalness of Giotto's faces and expressions; (2) the sculptural nature of his figures; and (3) the "depth" he creates in his pictures - marked a revolutionary turning-point in painting, and signalled the demise of the old traditions of Byzantine art with its flat one-dimensional imagery.


references
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 http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/proto-renaissance.htm

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