The Historical Context

 

Preface: Nature of Painting

Lucian
   On Zeuxis the Painter
     

 

From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

Mary P. Merrifield

  

Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting, chap. 1 of introduction
Master Peter of St. Audemar
   On Making Colours, 150-51
Cennino d'Andrea Cennini
   Il Libro dell'Arte (The Craftsman's Handbook), chaps. 1-34

 

Byzantine Style

12th-Century Italy:

Mosaic

  

 

13th-Century Italy:

Bonaventura Berlinghiero

  

 

13th-Century Italy:

Coppo di Marcovaldo

  

 

14th-Century Italy:

Master of the Orcagnesque Misericordia

  

 

14th-Century Russia:

Icons

  

 

Gothic Style

13th-Century Italy:

Cimabue

  

 

14th-Century Italy:

Andrea da Firenze

  


14th-Century Netherlands:

Melchior Broederlam

  

 

15th-Century Netherlands:

The Limbourg Brothers

  

 

15th-Century Flemish:

Robert Campin

  

 

15th/16th-Century Netherlands:

Hieronymus Bosch

  

 

16th-CenturyGermany:

Matthias Grunewald

  

 

   

 

The Madonna

 
 

 

Early Renaissance in Italy

 

Giotto di Bondone
  

 
Masaccio
  

 
Benozzo Gozzoli
  

 

Filippo Lippi
  

 
   

 

Additional Reading

John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, The Fine Arts

 

Links

Byzantine Icons

Byzantine Icons, A Brief Guide

The Gothic Style

The International Gothic Style

World's Great Madonnas

Giotto di Bondone, Biography

Masaccio: The Life, The Genius, The Works

 

 

 

 

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