Blog #1
This week in the lecture, speaking about the crucifixes that
included icons of the Byzantine style, inspired me to write about Cimabue. Cenni di Peppi, or Cimabue was a painter in
the late era of the dugento. He wasn’t
born until 1240, and therefore was considered late medieval. According to Lives of the Artists, Cimabue
had a lot of support from his father, who “judged him to be so skilled in
painting…”. Some of his earlier work
imitated Greek styles painting, but he was able to improve it and make it his own. An example would be of an altar dossal he
created at Santa Cecilia. Among his
other works, there is the more famous Madonna of Santa Trinita, which is
hanging in the Uffizi museum in Florence.
This weekend I had the pleasure of seeing this piece of art. In person, it is incredible to see the
detail, and effort put into this painting.
Madonna of Santa Trinita (Uffizi museum)
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Pictures are not allowed in the Uffizi museum
Pictures are not allowed in the Uffizi museum
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Blog Post #2
During my reading of
the introduction/preface in Vasari’s book made his appreciation of art a little
more clear. Vasari states that God
creating man would be the “first form of sculpture and painting.” His argument is that God created the world,
and “decorated” the heavens, seeming to mean that man is a work of art that God
himself first created. Girogio Vasari
was very important in the means of an artist, and as the first person to really
recognize the history of art. Vasari
speaks about (what I saw to be) the three phases of art as being close to the
phases of the lives of humans. These phases are that we are born, we grow
old, and then we die, and that art once it has reached its “summit,” it will
then fall to ruins. Besides his theories
about art, and his concept of art, Vasari has also given a lot of information
about artists, including the art that the Pagans did before Christianity ‘destroyed’
their art and purity.
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