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	click images below for alternate view     Madonna Enthroned with Angels The Ran Collection Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets, also Maestà, (1280-1285) from its origin created by Italian master and creator of mosaics Goivanni Cimabue (1240-1302). Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue also is known as Bencivieni di Pepo or, in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe. The original 5-corner icon painting belongs to Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Cimabue is called the father of Italian painting because his pictures of the Madonna and the Christ-child were truer to nature than any other previously painted, so he is generally regarded as the last great painter working in the Byzantine tradition (that's the art style which tend to formal representation with the scenes and forms that appeared relatively flat and highly stylized). A feeling to linear patterns led Cimabue use the gently-bending postures of the figures, with rather more life-like proportions and shading. The nimbus, a band of light, was used by medieval painters as a symbol of holiness. In this work Cimabue was inspired by Byzantine mosaic; that is why he used universal symbols in a flat manner. The same time, Cimabue constructed a deeper space for the Madonna and the surrounding figures to inhabit. He used the gold embellishments common to Byzantine art to enhance the folds and three-dimentionality to the drapery. Art historians call this painting the final summery of centuries of Byzantine art before its utter transformation into Fresco painting style. The icon is replicated by Katrin Schwarz in 2003, and sanctified in Jerusalem, Israel, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre, (also known as the Church of Resurrection). Church of the Holy Sepulchre is one of the holiest places in the world for Christians, who come here for 2000 years to visit the place where Jesus of Nazareth died, was buried, and rose back. The certificate of the church can be found at the back of the wooden board. Copyrighted. Item Price  Hand-painted,oil on wood, 8.7"x5.5" $440.00
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