ART APPRECIATION

THE MEDIEVAL ARTS

College of Pharmacy
1st SEMESTER A.Y. 2023-2024
FINALS

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD MOSAIC

 Also known as the Dark Ages; 5th Century to the 15th Images with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other
Century material.
 Saw massive social and economic change coupled
with developments in agriculture and medicine TESSERA
 Childbirth, famine and bad weather threatened the Individual tile in a mosaic
survival of ordinary people.
 The Dark Ages was a period of intellectual darkness SCULPTURES
due to loss of classical learning (Petrarch, Italian Stiff and elongated style of statues used in Romanesque
Scholar and Poet) art
 Period in which Christianity flourished in Europe
 Art in this period saw many developments (Pietistic) HERALDRY
Practice of designing and recording coats of arms and
badges
Ex. Ognissanti Madonna (Giotto)
Ex. Adoration of the Magi
KNOWN ARTISTS OF THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
 DONATELLO
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Religious texts embellished with rich colors which  FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
often featured the use of gold and silver  GIOTTO – Italian Humanist, Gothic (Proto-
Ex. Codex Cennanensis renaissance period)
 FRA ANGELICO
METAL WORK  LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
Adornment made of either metal or bronze used to  LORENZO GHILBERTI – Florence baptistery
create religious artifacts  CIMABUE – Designer of Mosaic, (Florence, Italy)
Ex. Sainte Foy  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN – Benedictin atheist
 PETRARCH – Earliest humanist, “Intellectual
PAINTINGS Darknest”, Medieval Period, Dark Ages
Iconography, fresco, and panel painting
Ex. Ascension (Dosso Dossi)

FRESCO
Executed in plaster on walls or ceilings
Ex. Saint Lucy Giving Alms

PANEL PAINTING
Painting on a panel made of a single or several pieces
of wood joined together.
Ex. Madonna and Child

EMBROIDERY
Decorative fabric created through needle thread or
yarn
Ex. Opus Anglicanum

CERAMICS
Hand-shaped wheel-turned to produce cooking pots
and jars, jugs, and pitchers