Movement · 1280–1400

Proto-Renaissance

Painting turns from flat gold icons toward solid figures in real space. Giotto sets his figures under deep blue skies, as on the star-covered vault of the Scrovegni Chapel.

Across 4 works, the colors are mostly brown (47%), yellow (27%) and gray (9%). On average the canvases are light, vivid and warm. Signature colors, used far more here than across the collection: light gold, light amber, light orange amber, amber and light scarlet orange.

Color print

The swatches covering most of these canvases, averaged over every work, dark to light.

• MG 038 light gold 7.7% of canvas
• MG 033 light amber 7.4% of canvas
• MG 034 amber 5.5% of canvas
• MG 032 light orange amber 4.9% of canvas
• MG 182 golden umber 4.1% of canvas
• MG 181 light sand 4.1% of canvas
• MG 177 dark taupe 3.7% of canvas
• MG 037 light amber gold 3.6% of canvas
• MG 176 taupe 3.5% of canvas
• MG 183 golden umber 3.4% of canvas
• MG 175 stone 3.3% of canvas
• MG 184 umber 2.5% of canvas
• MG 210 slate 2.5% of canvas
• MG 039 gold 2.5% of canvas
• MG 180 pale sand 2.4% of canvas
• MG 028 light scarlet orange 2.4% of canvas

Measurements

Lightness

0.58

Contrast

0.44

Vividness

0.065

Warmth

+0.87

Complexity

198 cells

Hue range

0.42

Focus

0.03

Artists

• Giotto 1267–1337

Works

• St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, c. 1297
• Flight into Egypt, 1305
• Madonna Enthroned, 1300–1309
• Saint Stephen, 1320