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1. Getting to know
the masters …

2. Giotto

3. Giotto di Bondone
• The individual who most
exemplified and in large part
created the new developments.

4. • He was born in the Mugello Valley near
Florence and lived mainly in that city,
which was the center of the new
Renaissance culture.

5. • According to Ghiberti, Giotto was skilled
in all the arts, abandoned the Bysantine
style and revived the genius of classical
antiquity.

6. • The best preserved example of Giotto’s
work are the paintings in the Arena
Chapel in Padua, a small town about 25
mile (40 km) Southwest of Venice.

7. Other info:
• Giotto's masterwork is the decoration
of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua,
commonly called the Arena Chapel,
completed around 1305.

8. • This fresco cycle depicts the life of the
Virgin and the life of Christ. It is
regarded as one of the supreme
masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.

9. • Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and where he
was chosen by the commune of Florence in
1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower)
of the Florence Cathedral.

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11. Massaccio

12. Massaccio
• He is one of the artists of the Early
Renaissance who laid the groundwork for
reviving Roman classical types of
architecture and the human figure.

13. • He is one who invented linear perspective
and developed a painting style that
emphasized the illumination of masses.

14. • According to Vasari, his fresco of The
Tribute Money showing Jesus Christ
instructing His disciples to give Caesar that
which Caesar’s, “helps us to understand
why it was that both painters and sculptors
studied his work.”

15. • He died at the age of 27.
• Became of his school’s most celebrated
sculptors and painters.

16. • The most important new element in art
of this time was the third dimension in
space and mass.

17. • Massaccio’s figures painted in very simple
large areas of color, are given by their
illumination, or as the Italian’s said, by
chiaroscuro or light and shade.

18. Other info:
• Thommaso Cassai, also known as Masaccio, was
another great Florentine artist who emerged at
the beginning of the fifteenth century. He was
born in 1401 and lived with his younger brother
and his widowed mother. The family lived in great
poverty but the financial situation seems to have
eased on the remarriage of his mother.

19. Florence was under the control of Cosmo the
Elder and the Medici had become the first family
of the city both artistically and politically, and the
city itself was enjoying a period of calm and
prosperity. Masaccio was accepted into the guild
of painters in Florence in 1422 he became friends
with Donatello and Brunelleschi and was
influenced by their work.

20. In 1427 Masaccio painted his Holly Trinity for the
Santa Maria Novella church in Florence. This fresco
is considered to be one of his finest masterpieces
and was rediscovered in 1861 after being hidden by
a stone altarpiece in the sixteenth century.

21. Masaccio's early demise has meant that very
few works exist that are entirely attributed to
him. Collaborations with other artists include
the Madonna and Child with St Anne, painted
in collaboration with Masolino, and Madonna
and Child and Angels, painted with his brother
Giovanni.

22. • In about 1428 the artist left Florence
and travelled to Rome where he died at
the age of 27.

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24. Fra
Angelico

25. Fra Angelico
• He is a Dominican Friar in the monestery
of San Marco, Florence.

26. • His art depicted the abiding faith of friars in
scores of frescos. (Most of them showed
serene saints and simple monks.

27. • When Fra Angelico’s fame spread, the Pope
offered to make him Archbishop of Florence.
• He declined preferring the monks simple cowl
to the Archbishop’s miter.

28. • He gets inspiration from an ancient poem
describing Venus, the goddess of love, as being
born from the sea, he painted The Birth of
Venus.
• The result was the most famous nude of the
period wherein the subject was seen in
weightless, floating on her shell, and blown by
the winds.

29. Other info:
• Florentine painter, a Dominican friar. Although in
popular tradition he has been seen as `not an
artist properly so-called but an inspired saint'
(Ruskin), Angelico was in fact a highly professional
artist, who was in touch with the most advanced
developments in contemporary Florentine art and
in later life travelled extensively for prestigious
commissions. He probably began his career as a
manuscript illuminator, and his early paintings are
strongly influenced by International Gothic.

30. • The Annunciation in the Diocesan
Museum in Cortona-- Masaccio's
incluence is evident in the insistent
perspective of the architecture.

31. • For most of his career Angelico was based in S.
Domenico in Fiesole (he became Prior there in
1450), but his most famous works were painted
at S. Marco in Florence (now an Angelico
museum), a Sylvestrine monastry which was
taken over by his Order in 1436.

32. • He and his assistants painted about fifty frescos in
the friary that are at once the expression of and a
guide to the spiritual life of the community. Many of
the frescos are in the friars' cells and were intended
as aids to devotion; with their immaculate coloring,
their economy in drawing and composition, and
their freedom from the accidents of time and place,
they attain a sense of blissful serenity.

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