Presentation in the Temple Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337)
Giotto di Bondone – Presentation in the Temple
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Painter: Giotto di Bondone
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
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Italian painter Giotto di Bondone depicted the offering to the temple of Christ. Giotto was a Western European painter of the Middle Ages. The artist never adhered to the canons of painting of the time. He was the first artist in history to introduce realism into his works. Giotto’s series of narrative paintings are based on biblical stories. It is these with a high degree of realism that the artist presents in his works.
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Italian painter Giotto di Bondone depicted the offering to the temple of Christ. Giotto was a Western European painter of the Middle Ages. The artist never adhered to the canons of painting of the time. He was the first artist in history to introduce realism into his works.
Giotto’s series of narrative paintings are based on biblical stories. It is these with a high degree of realism that the artist presents in his works. At first glance the painting reveals its content to the viewer. Immediately you can understand the nature and role of the characters, to capture the essence of the action depicted. The composition is of a multi-figure character. The main action is accompanied by several side episodes that create a special background for the story. The picture is executed in soft, warm yellow-orange and purple colors.
The picture is painted in the period from 1320 to 1325. To the left of the altar is depicted a young Mary who, with anxiety and trembling, has handed the infant into the hands of the elder. Mary’s anxious feeling is portrayed, giving away all the sorrow of Godamateri’s worries about the fate of her child. Behind Mary stands Joseph holding two doves as a symbol of the offering to the temple.
To the right of the altar is Simeon the Receiver of God, gently holding the infant Jesus in his arms. He stands on the threshold of the New Testament, which he cannot cross. Simeon tells Mary from all of Old Testament humanity a prophecy of a weapon that will pass into her soul. The words he says have become a prayer and are repeated every vespers. The child stretches out his little hand to his mother, as if to ask her to take him away.
Standing behind the elder is Anna the Prophetess. She holds a long scroll in her hand. She anxiously observes what is happening and informs Mary and Joseph of the danger and the need to save the child. Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus are about to flee to Egypt.
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