Contrast the two Virgin and Child Enthroned paintings by Cimabue and Giotto. What are their similarities and differences? Which artist was more important to the future of painting, and why?
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Giotto was much more influential on future artists and paintings because of his narrative and pictorial style.
In both paintings, Mary takes up the center of the composition and presents the figure of baby Jesus.
Mary is surrounded by angels in both paintings, but the angels are stacked vertically in Cimabue's version.
Giotto's painting is more realistic in terms of perspective and modeling of the figures, whose plainly draped, bulky bodies inhabit real space.
Giotto's Mary is still much larger, following the hieratic scale.
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