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Coppo di  Marcovaldo

Founder of the Sienese School

Florentine Italian Painter in the Byzantine Tradition

Education - apprenticed at age 10 to local Greek icon makers and later  a gold smith

Medium - Tempera and gold leaf on wood

Cause of death - unknown

Coppo di Marcovaldo was the Michelangelo of his day.

Famous for his Christian-themed painted icons with ecclesiastical figures often hovering above the Virgin Mary.  Coppo di Marcovaldo started life as a hard drinking soldier in the army of Florence.  The weary young veteran establish a home and studio in Siena after he was imprisoned following the bloody Battle of Montaperti. 

The brilliant artist was in great demand for his aesthetically pleasing masterpieces.  The church commissioned religious images for alter pieces and interior paintings on panel.

Both are bodies in which men try to capture and keep alive their shyest and most ethereal conceptions. The kingdom of neither is of this world. Rightly, therefore, do we regard art and religion as twin manifestations of the spirit; wrongly do some speak of art as a manifestation of religion." Coppo di Marcovaldo' s paintings became prized for their inventive compositions and immense beauty.  His style was typified by a certain poetical tenderness,  combined naturalistic element with the fantastic religious fervor typical of the Byzantine painting tradition.  Most prominently featured in his work are  the holy figures of the Christian faithChrist,  Saints, The Cross, Virgin Mary,  Chalice, Keys, The Anchor, Wheat , The Good Shepherd, The Apostles, Animals,Fish, Angels, Birds, Insects  and Satan.  

Until the Middle Ages men regarded themselves as following the Good Shepherd, and art consequently did not recognize the individual in particular.

There is a spirit of general elevation and enlightenment in which all alike communicate. The unity of this spirit gives unity to all the various products of the Renaissance; and it is to this intimate alliance with the mind, this participation in the best thoughts which that age produced, that the art of Italy in the fifteenth century owes much of its grave dignity and influence.."

Renaissance Art Characteristics and Key Descriptive Words  and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement -  rebirth, rediscovery of theclassical world, City-state, Humanism, Humanist, Francesco Petrarch, Reform, The Prince, Theocracy, The Inquisition, Human Reasoning,  publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists,sfumato, chiaroscuro, linear perspective, Heliocentric Theory,vanishing point, Savonarola, spiritually significant,  illuminated manuscript,  idealized biblical themes, scriptorium, emotion,illuminator,  Age of Discovery,axonometric drawing, curiosity about the natural world,mythology,  realistic use of colours and light,  Bonfire of the Vanities, Old Testament stories, ethereal and foggy backgrounds,Gospel parables, The Blackdeath, romanticized landscapes,  Christian symbolism.

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