Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned, Florence 1280-1290 

Italo-Byzantine style

Thrown of knowledge,

provides directions- help us understand through christ comes salvation

Giotto, Madonna Enthroned, Florence, 1310

One of Cimabue's apprentices 

precursor to the renascence 

same subject, same format as cimabue's- new style

The subject of st. francis of assisi is one of the reasons why grotto is allowed to change the style of art 

Arena Chapel, Padua, 1305-1306 

very simple but spacious, 

patron is Enrico Scrovegni

subject- Life of virgin's parents

Life of the virgin

Life of christ

Scenes- Life of virgin's parents 

Betrayal of christ 

lamentation

Giotto presented with blank slate

Asked to do entire chapel

Patron of Giotto's painting of the Arena Chapel in order to gain salvation because he was from a family of usurer's ,

had great power, and money to be able to build an entire chapel inside his palace and able to get a priest to come and say mass,

was painted in the "last judgment" scene in the chapel on the right side as giving the gift of the church to the saints to show that he gained the salvation by building the church