Medieval Paintings
Medieval Paintings
Medieval paintings brought sacred figures and narratives to churches, monasteries, and homes through wall paintings, panels, and manuscript illumination. Italian altarpieces used egg tempera and gold leaf, and could join several panels within a frame. Small narrative pictures at the base, called a predella, added episodes from sacred lives, while portable panels served private altars. Byzantine and Gothic traditions offered varied approaches to gesture, expression, and the presentation of sacred figures.
Italian Painting around 1300: Florence and Siena
Between the late 1200s and the early 1300s, painters in Florence and Siena brought different approaches to Christian images, from the forms of a devotional panel to the narrative space of a fresco. Cimabue and Giotto developed the Florentine tradition, while Duccio and Simone Martini gave Sienese painting its own approaches to line, color, and the arrangement of sacred figures.
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