Important Works-International Gothic

Question 1

Simone Martini

Maestà

Answer 1

Sala di Consiglio, Palazzo Communale, Siena
1320.
Deepening sense of space; less hierarchy of size; royal endowment- Gothic

Question 2

Simone Martini

The Annunciation

Answer 2

1330.

Conception of space; emotion; not relatable because royal terms

Question 3

Pietro Lorenzetti

Birth of the Virgin

Answer 3

c.1340.

Spacial unity, new standard of space: stage

Question 4

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Presentation in the Temple

Answer 4

1340.

Space hasn’t been conceived like this since roman antiquity; unified

Question 5

Lorenzo Monaco

The Coronation of the Virgin (including the Nativity)

Answer 5

1410.

International Gothic; Camaldolese; the first night scene

Question 6

Gentile da Fabriano

Adoration of the Magi

Answer 6

1420

Strozzi commision it; chrysography; highly ornamented; Varieta (emotion, movement, horses, foreshortened)

Question 7

Duccio di Buoninsegna,

Rucellai Madonna

Answer 7

commissioned 1280.

International gothic; weight; some depth

Question 8

Duccio di Buoninsegna,

Maestà

Answer 8

1310.

Bleacher effect; hierarchy of scale; tabernacles