 Tuscan Art
Tuscan art
Tuscan art of Middle Age was very important for the development of Medieval Art, introducing new techniques and concepts which influenced the rest of Europe and evolved further in Renaissance period. Mostly three cities was particularly known as much as art historians ascribe to each of them an own movement, called school: Lucca (Lucchese School), Florence (Florentine School) and Siena (Sienese School). The grow of tuscan art was thanks to political, economical and cultural influences of Church and dynasties such as Medici, Bardi, Angevins of France and Naples and different papal party of the Gelphi and Ghibellini. Typical elements of Tuscan Art are the emphasis on symbolic and religious contents, but, at the same time, an attention on realistic realistic, with the beginnings of interest in the depiction of volume and perspective. In Tuscan was produced many kind of artwork such as sculptures, paintings, mosaics and frescos on wall of churches. Successive let’s see features of every single school and of their artist.
Tuscan Art: Lucchese School
The Lucchese School, was a painting and sculpture school grew in the 11th and 12th centuries Tuscany with an important center in Volterra. Lucchese works are remarkable for their monumentality although not so elegant and soft like Sienese and Florentine ones. The Lucchese was called also Pisan-Lucchese School because of the important of Pisano’s artist: Nicola Pisano showed his appreciation of Classical forms as did his son, Giovanni Pisano, who carried the new ideas of Gothic sculpture into the Tuscan vernacular, forming figures of naturalism never seen before. This was echoed in the work of Pisan painters in the following century, notably that of Giunta Pisano, who in turn influenced Tuscan art and particularly artworks of Cimabue and Giotto..
Tuscan Art: Florentine School
The Florentine School was founded by Giotto: his ability to render three-dimensional form and space, the simplicity of his compositions and his effective portrayal of human emotions make his works the first modern paintings. His impact on Florentine painters was enormous, resulting in a sort of Giottesque academicism. Florentine School was remarkable for sense of light, narrative wall paintings and figures placed in naturalistic space and possess dimension and dramatic expression, would have been influenced by contacts that florentine artists have had with Siena, Venice and Rome. Art of this city enabled entire Tuscan art to be noted in the worldwide history: some of the best known artists ever such as Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Lippi, Masolino, and Masaccio belong to Florentine School
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