Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna
c. 1310 · Work
Giotto's enthroned Virgin has real weight and volume beneath her robes — a solid woman in three-dimensional space where Byzantine Madonnas had floated in gold.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, Arts and Thoughts, Master, Italy (post-476 CE), Renaissance
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