Medieval Paintings

A LOOK AT

Artists were breaking away from the formal religious painting styles of the previous eras. Medieval paintings are classified into different types, including fresco and panel painting.

TRAITS OF THE MEDIEVAL ERA

THE MOST IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL PAINTINGS

Diptych of the Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion (1275 – 1280) Unknown

#1

Santa Trinita Maestà (1283 – 1291) Cimabue

#2

Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) (1304 – 1306) Giotto

#3

The Arrest of Christ (Kiss of Judas) (1306) Giotto

#4

Ognissanti Madonna (1310) Giotto

#5

Christ Rescuing Peter from Drowning (1370) Lorenzo Veneziano

#6

The Wilton Diptych (1395 – 1399) The Wilton Master

#7

Paradiesgärtleins (1410) Upper Rhenish Master

#8

The Trinity (c. 1411 – 1427) Andrei Rublev

#9

The Ghent Altarpiece (1432) Hubert and Jan van Eyck

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