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Giotto was an early pioneer of realism. How did his paintings mix medieval and Renaissance perspectives?
He did not paint religious subjects, focusing on humans only.
He did not use vanishing lines well, but he did make his figures realistically human.
He only painted religious subjects, but he did not represent saints or Christ.
He made human figures stiff and symbolic, but his spaces were more open and free.
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"He did not use vanishing lines well, but he did make his figures realistically human."
Giotto was transitional: he painted mainly religious subjects but gave saints and biblical figures weight, volume, emotion and believable gestures (moving away from Byzantine stiffness). His treatment of space and depth was more natural than medieval art (overlapping figures, foreshortening, cast shadows), but he did not use the mathematically precise linear perspective (vanishing point/orthogonals) developed later in the Renaissance.
Giotto was transitional: he painted mainly religious subjects but gave saints and biblical figures weight, volume, emotion and believable gestures (moving away from Byzantine stiffness). His treatment of space and depth was more natural than medieval art (overlapping figures, foreshortening, cast shadows), but he did not use the mathematically precise linear perspective (vanishing point/orthogonals) developed later in the Renaissance.
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