Giotto, Crucifixion

        Mosaic, Crucifixion Italian

1200-1220 Venice

     San Marco Cathedral

 

            Let’s start with Mosaic, Crucifixion Italian of the 1200-1220, notice here we see the lack of realistic details of the artist’s work. We can see that even Jesus body is quite curved and uneven with the rest of his body. And although his face is looking down as if he was in pain but the features of face is not detailed enough to show us exactly what he is feeling. And finally notice how the angels are looking down at him and watching his blood squirt.

Giotto, Crucifixion

 Italian, 1300-1305,Padua,

Arena Chapel

               About one hundred years later, when Giotto did a painting of Jesus’s Crucifixion, we can see a big difference and how advance the art of the Renaissance has changed within those years. By Giotto’s gently strokes to his bright and vibrant colors to express emotions and details, is what made the Renaissance art different and influential to many other artists around this time and after him. As I pointed out earlier, from Mosaic painting, Jesus body was not proportionate and as we can see from Giotto, he really focuses on bringing art to life and giving Jesus a very realistic image. He even gives the angels life by placing them around Jesus and flying and not just watching from above.  Also we see that the angels are catching his blood in a bowl, I wonder why Giotto added that feature. What is everyone else take about the bowl and what it represents?


 where i got the pictures: http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday-early_22.html