Important Works- Black Death Style

Question 1

Buonamico Buffalmacco

Three Living, Three Dead, and the Triumph of Death

Answer 1

Camposanto, Pisa
c. 1350.
Unity of color; difficult to decipher; Black Death Style; memento mori

Question 2

Nardo di Cione

Hell

Answer 2

Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
1350s.
Dante’s 8 circles of hell; sin is given context of consequence; Black Death

Question 3

Orcagna (Andrea di Cione),

Strozzi Altarpiece

Answer 3

Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence,
1360.
Reinvention of the Byzantine paradigm: Black Death Style; can’t be too close to divine (bleacher style, gold, strong linearity); Dominican ideology

Question 4

Bernardo Daddi

Madonna and Child Enthroned

Answer 4

Orsanmichele, Florence
1350
Black Death Style Madonna; she has the ear of Christ; she imposes an important project of salvation