Important Works- Comparisons

Question 1

Nicola Pisano

The Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration

Answer 1

Pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery
1260
Classical, arches, figures

Question 2

Giovanni Pisano

The Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration

Answer 2

Pulpit of the Pistoia Baptistery
1300
International gothic, elongated, tabernacle

Question 3

Cimabue

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Prophets

Answer 3

1280

chrysology, not meant to interact with but to inspire, not anatomically or spacially correct

Question 4

Giotto

Ognissanti Madonna

Answer 4

c. 1310.

No chrysography- natural light; weight; space for interaction- allows for empathy to develop

Question 5

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Sacrifice of Isaac

Answer 5

1400

First heroic nude since antiquity; grace; elegance; smoothness

Question 6

Filippo Brunelleschi

Sacrifice of Isaac

Answer 6

1400

Too empathatic; too much; lacks grace

Question 7

Masolino,

The Temptation

Answer 7

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1420s.

Elongated (International Gothic); graceful; no emotion

Question 8

Masaccio,

The Expulsion

Answer 8

Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1420s.

Anatomically correct/classical bodies; landscape; emotion (empathy)