Giotto: Gothic Art And The Arena Chapel

Giotto was a well-known painter in the early renaissance. Although Giotto had knowledge of the gothic art and the Byzantine, he primarily focused on the naturalistic style. The naturalistic style referred to the Florentine painting tradition, which focuses more on the realistic portion of art. His painting also resembled biblical stories. Giotto used the fresco technique towards his paintings. For example, the glorified Arena Chapel. In the Arena Chapel, Giotto expresses his style of naturalism by paintings each angel with different face expressions, by this strategy he is giving each angel emotions therefore, creating a more dramatic piece. Giotto also allows himself to always use all the space wisely, but he always wanted his viewers to focus on one main thing. Moving forward to his colors, Giotto had a signature dark blue color, he didn’t make a use of bright colors unless he was expressing emotions.

He was the founder of the Sienese school. Duccio was recognized for giving a painting a dimension of architecture and a different of effect of the use of haloes. For instance, in his painting Maesta; instead of painting the “traditional” halo over the head he utilized a rounder occluding surface. Although the haloes were meant to symbolize holy figures, Duccio used the haloes to avoid occlusion of the heads. Duccio worked with the Tempera technique. The tempera technique is a fast-drying painting consisting of colored pigments mixed with egg yolk. Despite his successful paintings, Duccio lacked Giotto’s genius and the beauty of his