Print on pictorial canvas Measurement: 80 x 60 cm Material: work printed on very fine grain pictorial canvas Frame: Light brown in beech wood and handmade wood pulp
The Madonna Enthroned shows the many artistic styles that influenced Giotto. Both in the gold coloring used throughout the artwork and in the flattened gold background, Giotto's art continued the traditional Italo-Byzantine style so popular in the Proto-Renaissance period. The altarpiece represents a formal representation of an icon, while retaining the rigidity of Byzantine art, and Giotto maintained the hierarchy of scale, making the central Madonna and Baby Jesus much larger in size than the saints and religious figures surroundings. Giotto's figures, however, escape the limits of Byzantine art. His figures are heavy and reminiscent of three-dimensional sculptures, like that of classical Roman sculpture. The throne decorated with the Madonna, also of Italian Gothic design, has a very specific use of colored marble as surface decoration. This method of decoration, based on a style called Cosmatesque or Cosmati, was popular in Rome since the early Christian period and in Tuscany in the late Middle Ages.
