The Pantheon

January 5th, 2009

A video about this most beautiful ancient Roman temple.

Berlinghieri’s Altarpiece of St. Francis, c. 1235

An introduction to the style of the Proto-Renaissance by way of a comparison of Cimabue’s Santa Trinita Madonna, c. 1280, compared with Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna, c. 1310—both in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

In this video, the panel by Cimabue is on the left and Giotto’s painting is on the right.

Andrea Mantegna, St. Sebastian, 1456-59 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

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