Smarthistory – art history. Home Page. The National Gallery, London. Tate. National Portrait Gallery - Home. The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. British Museum - Welcome to the British Museum. Western Art Timeline - Artists, Movements and Styles. Artists, Movements and Styles in Western Art (1150-1600) (c.1150-1400) 'Maestà (Majesty)', c.1280- 85 (tempera on panel) defines much of the late medieval art that grew out of the Byzantine and Romanesque traditions. These were very formal artistic traditions with rigorous religious conventions that limited the personal creativity of the artist. At this time, the quality of an artwork was judged by the richness of the materials used to create it and the skill with which they were applied.
Gothic art is distinguished from its predecessors by an increasing naturalism in the shape and posture of the figures, and an expressive use of line, pattern and color, allowing the artist more freedom of interpretation. The term ‘Gothic’, originally related to the barbarity of the Gothic tribes (the Ostrogoths and Visigoths) in their destruction of the art of Ancient Rome. (c.1375-1425) GENTILE DA FABRIANO (c.1370-1427) 'The Adoration of the Magi', 1423 (tempera on panel) (c.1400-1450) MASACCIO (c.1401-1428)
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