Medievalists.net » Giotto http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 10 Creepy Things to See at the Louvre That Are Better Than the Mona Lisa http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:14:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56035 If you're an ancient historian, a medievalist, or early modernist, there are so many other amazing pieces and works of art a the Louvre other than these two tourist staples. Here is my list of cool, creepy, unusual and better than the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/10/10-creepy-things-see-louvre-better-mona-lisa/feed/ 0 Occlusion issues in early Renaissance art http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/14/occlusion-issues-in-early-renaissance-art/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/14/occlusion-issues-in-early-renaissance-art/#comments Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:26:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44888 Early Renaissance painters innovatively attempted to depict realistic three-dimensional scenes. A major problem was to produce the impression of overlap for surfaces that occlude one another in the scene but are adjoined in the picture plane.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/29/revealing-the-early-renaissance-stories-and-secrets-in-florentine-art/feed/ 0 The Three-Dimensionalisation of Giotto’s 13th-century Assisi Fresco: Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/30/the-three-dimensionalisation-of-giotto%e2%80%99s-13th-century-assisi-fresco-exorcism-of-the-demons-at-arezzo/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/30/the-three-dimensionalisation-of-giotto%e2%80%99s-13th-century-assisi-fresco-exorcism-of-the-demons-at-arezzo/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:15:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=16261 Giotto’s thirteenth-century fresco Exorcism of the Demons at Arezzo in the Church of San Francesco in Assisi is often referred to as marking the transition from the flattened medieval Byzantine ritualised image to the more spatially realistic perspectives of the Renaissance proper.

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