Giotto Di Bondone Analysis

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A picture by Giotto di Bondone named as “entry into Jerusalem” blown historian minds away because each detail in the picture articulates a story with a reason. Conversely, before we drive deep into it, we need to clarify the reasons of why Giotto is more into historical paintings, and the way he looks to them. Giotto is the first artist who used the third dimension “3D” drawings, and the reason behind it is to develop the medieval art and to escape the gothic art. The 3D methodology made the viewer live with the moment, and it also was made to reach the people’s emotions. An example on this is his 12 feet panting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child with a saints and angels around them. Therefore, his works could be easy to remember, but …show more content…

The background of the picture is some youth climbing trees to collect branches to regard Jesus. In addition to that, people on who are welcoming Jesus some of them are shy to look at him and one of them is rolling a colt in gesture of royalty under Jesus donkey. The colt seemed as if it’s a red wine, which is more likely to be, because Jesus first gift was turning water into wine. Before we get into describing Jesus we should focus on his disciples who are behind him standing shoulder to shoulder afraid from what could be happened to Jesus after they had heard the threatened on Jesus based on Jesus’s story of entering Jerusalem in Matthew 21; 1-1 bible book. Furthermore, Giotto di Bondone made Jesus the main focus of the picture via centering him in middle of the picture, putting him on a donkey and making him the largest figure in the whole picture. Giotto tried to make the scene as if it just happened in front of us to make us identify with them. In conclusion, Giotto transformed the basic and pathetic principles of the ignorance era via visualizing the religious concepts that has a value. Giotto also satisfied the minds with his methodology that articulates the art transformation in the medieval era. “Entry to Jerusalem” image is a story that held much more ethic and pathos concepts than the ordinary human can

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