HSAR 115b / INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN ART

SPRING 2017

2. THE WORLD IN 1300

1. A Gothic World View, c 1280

Richard de Bello, Mappa Mundi of Henry III, c. 1277-1289. Tempera on vellum,

Hereford Cathedral, England.

2. Venice: Center of the World

Basilica of St Mark, Venice, begun 1063

Comparisons:
Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, Vatican Codex, ca. 1162, Vatican
Horses made of copper and Bronze, Greece, 4th century BC, brought to Venice
from Constantinople, 1204
Rock Crystal Vase, Egypt, late 10th century, mount added in Venice, 13th century,
Treasury of St Marks, Venice
Mosque Lamp, made around 1340, probably Egypt, London V&A
Ecclesiastical cope, worn by a cleric, made from cloth woven in Bursa, Turkey, cut and
additional embroidery added in Venice c 1450, Friari, Venice.

Stefano Veneziano, Madonna and Child Enthroned, Venice, 1369, Museo Correr,
Venice.

Doges Palace, Venice, begun c.1340

Audience Hall of Sultan al Nasir Muhammad, Cairo, 1333-34.
John Ruskin, South Side of St Marks after rain, watercolor, 1846 and Northwest Portico
and porch of San Marco, watercolor, c.1846, private collection.

3.The Byzantine Tradition and Painting in Italy

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, panel from the Saint Francis Altarpiece, Tempera on wood,
Pescia, San Francesco, Pescia 1235.
Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets, from Santa Trinit,
Florence, ca. 12801290, tempera and gold leaf on wood, Florence, Uffizi.
Frederic Leighton, Cimabues Celebrated Madonna is carried in Procession through the
Streets of Florence, 1855, Royal Collection
4. Siena 1300

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, principal panel of
the Maest altarpiece, from the Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 13081311.
Tempera and gold leaf on wood, Siena, Duomo.

Duccio di Buoninsegna, Madonna and Child, tempera and gold on wood, c. 12901300.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation, altarpiece, from Siena

Cathedral, Siena, Italy, 1333, tempera and gold leaf on wood, Florence,
Uffizi, Florence.

Fragment of Tartar silk with a design in gold on a white ground, reputedly from the
tomb of Pope Benedict XI (died 1304). Perugia: San Domenico

Siena Palazzo Pubblico, begun 1297.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti Allegory of Good and Bad Government, fresco, 1338-9,

interior of Sala de Nove (Room of the Nine), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.

Simone Martini and assistants (much repainted), Guidoriccio da Fogliano outside

Montemassi, c.1330, Sala del Mappamondo, Palazzo Publico, Siena.

5. Giotto in Florence and Padua

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, begun 1299.

Cimabue, Virgin and Child with Angels, 1280-85, tempera on panel, Florence: Uffizi

Giotto, Virgin and Child with Angels, 1310, tempera on panel, Florence, Uffizi.

Arena Chapel at Padua, built for Enrico Scrovegni, c.1305

MUSIC: Guillaume de Machaut Agnus Dei from La Messe de Nostre Dame

c.1330.

Giotto, frescoes, Arena Chapel, Padua, c.1304-1313:

Life of Christ
The Kiss of Judas
Lamentation
Last Judgment.