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14Th Century Art in Europe (Proto-Renaissance Period) Chapter 17: 14th Century Art in Europe (Proto-Renaissance Period) • TERMS: loggia, giornata, sinopia, grisaille, gesso, Book of Hours, predella, ogee arch, corbels, tiercerons, bosses, rosettes Timeline of chapter • Culture: Late Medieval • Style: Proto-Renaissance, 1300-1400 Map 17-1 Europe in the Fourteenth Century. 17-2 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Town Hall and Loggia of the Lancers Medium: Stone and brick Date: 1300-1400 Location: Florence, Italy 17-3 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Andrea Pisano Title: Doors showing Life of John The Baptist from Baptistery of San Giovanni Medium: Gilded bronze Date: 1300-1400 Location: Florence, Italy 17-4 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Andrea Pisano Title: Baptism of the Multitude from Doors showing Life of John the Baptist at the Baptistery of San Giovanni Medium: Gilded bronze Date: 1300-1400 Location: Florence, Italy 17-5 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Cimabue Title: Virgin and Child Enthroned Medium: Tempera and gold on wood panel Date: 1300-1400 ”. 17-6 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Giotto di Bondone Title: Virgin and Child Enthroned Medium: Tempera and gold on wood panel Date: 1300-1400 17-7 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Giotto di Bondone Title: Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel Medium: Frescoes Date: 1300-1400 Location: Padua, Italy 17-8 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Giotto di Bondone Title: Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Resurrection, and Lamentation/Noli me Tangere from the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel Medium: Frescoes Date: 1300-1400 Location: Padua, Italy . 14’ 9 1/8" × 9’ 6 1/8”. 17-10 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna Title: Virgin and Child Enthroned Medium: Tempera and gold on wood panel Date: 1300-1400 17-11a Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna Title: Front of the Maestà Altarpiece Medium: Tempera and gold on wood Date: 1300-1400 17-11b Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna Title: Back of the Maestà Altarpiece Medium: Tempera and gold on wood Date: 1300-1400 Duccio di Buoninsegna. Raising of Lazarus. 1308– 1311. 17 1/8 × 18 1/4”. 17-12 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna Title: Raising of Lazarus from back of the Maestà Altarpiece Medium: Tempera and gold on wood Date: 1300-1400 Simone Martini and Lippo. 1333. 10' × 8’ 9”. 17-13 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi Title: Annunciation Medium: Tempera and gold on wood Date: 1300-1400 17-1 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti Title: Room of the Nine/Room of Peace in the Town Hall Medium: Frescoes Date: 1300-1400 Location: Siena, Italy 17-15 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti Title: Effects of Good Government in the Room of the Nine/Room of Peace in the Town Hall Medium: Fresco Date: 1300-1400 Location: Siena, Italy 17-15 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti Title: Effects of Good Government in the Country in the Room of the Nine/Room of Peace in the Town Hall Medium: Fresco Date: 1300-1400 Location: Siena, Italy p. 550 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Jean Pucelle Title: Kiss of Judas and Annunciation from Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux Medium: Grisaille and pigment on vellum Date: 1300-1400 17-16 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Virgin and Child Medium: Silver gilt and enamel Date: 1300-1400 p. 552 (A) Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Chest with Scenes of Courtly Romances Medium: Ivory with iron mounts Date: 1300-1400 p. 553 (B) Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Attack on the Castle of Love, Lid on Chest with Scenes of Courtly Romances Medium: Ivory with iron mounts Date: 1300-1400 p. 553 (C) Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Tristan and Iseult at the Fountain & Capture of the Unicorn, Side of Chest with Scenes of Courtly Romances Medium: Ivory with iron mounts Date: 1300-1400 17-17 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Life of the Virgin on Chichester-Constable Chasuble Medium: Red velvet with silk and metallic thread and seed pearls Date: 1300-1400 17-18 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Exeter Cathedral Artist: Thomas of Whitney Medium: Stone and stained glass windows Date: 1300-1400 Location: Devon, England 13 7/16 × 9 3/4”. 17-20 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: St. Hedwig of Silesia with Duke Ludwig I of Liegnitz-Brieg and Duchess Agnes Medium: Ink and paint on parchment Date: 1300-1400 17-21 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Heinrich and Peter Parler Title: Church of the Holy Cross Medium: Stone Date: 1300-1400 Location: Schwäbisch Gmund, Germany 17-22 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Artist: Master Theodoric Title: Saint Luke in the Holy Cross Chapel at the Karlstein Castle Medium: Paint and gold on panel Date: 1300-1400 Location: Prague, Czech Republic 17-19 Culture: Late Medieval Period/Style: Proto-Renaissance Title: Vesperbild (Pieta) Medium: Painted wood Date: 1300-1400 .
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