LECTURE 1 "Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto - Altarpieces for the Virgin Mary & Peter"
Giotto: The Most Excellent Painter - Part II
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1h 12m
Giotto’s most celebrated altarpiece is the “Ognissanti Madonna” which once sat on the high altar of the Florentine church of the Ognissanti. Working against the Byzantine conventions of the day, Giotto was able to create an image of Mary enthroned that is both naturalistic and majestic. This lecture will examine Giotto painting and compare it to two other contemporary altarpieces by Cimabue and Duccio which sit in the same room of the Uffizi Galleries.
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LECTURE 2 "Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto...
"Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto - Altarpieces for the Virgin Mary and St. Peter"
Around 1320, Giotto was called to Rome by Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi to paint an altarpiece for the old Basilica of St. Peter. The painting, known as “The Stefaneschi Altarpiece” was located either on the high...
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LECTURE 3 "The Bardi Chapel"
Between 1317 and 1337, Giotto painted the walls of the two principal family chapels in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. The Bardi Chapel contains six scenes from the “Life of St. Francis,” with a seventh scene – the most important of St. Francis’ life: “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata”...
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LECTURE 4 "The Peruzzi Chapel"
The fresco cycle in the Peruzzi Chapel was either produced simultaneously with or shortly after the completion of the Bardi Chapel. Here Giotto painted scenes from the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, in honor of the chapel’s patron Giovanni Peruzzi. Executed in the “a s...
