Cimabue, an Italian painter, was the first famous painter of the city of Florence. Cimabue's painting of the Madonna Enthroned is painted in a traditional style based on the medieval art of the Byzantine Empire. His faces and figures are rendered stiffly, and placed vertically without size relationship to the figures around them. Cimabue's works have great personal force and effect, even though the forms are traditional.

Giotto was the most important painter of the 1300's. His paintings of the Madonna Enthroned was painted approximately twenty years after Cimabue and shows a slight contrast to the painters that came before him. Giotto painted the throne of the Madonna with open sides and showed two bearded men looking through the openings. In this way, he gave the feeling that the s

The Limbourg brothers were noted illuminated manuscript painters. Their most famous manuscript was a prayer book called Les Tres Riches Heures. In the vividly colored illuminations, beautiful lords and ladies amuse themselves while servants tend to the guests. These illustrations rise above all others of their time with intricately designed crowd scenes and exquisite detail.

Jan Van Eyck was one of the greatest and most influential Flemish painters of the 1400's. He typically portrayed his subjects in realistic detail and bright colors. Many of Van Eyck's paintings use disguised symbolism, where the realistic objects often have a deeper meaning related to the religious nature of the image. In the Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, the bride and groom stand shoeless to indicate that they stand on holy ground. The single burning candle in the chandelier sy

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