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Why should you study Art History ?
Do you often find beautiful pieces of art catching your eye? Are you curious about the history of art? Art History isn’t just about admiring beautiful paintings and ancient sculptures.
Art history is an exploration into the human experience, offering insights into the cultures, societies, and philosophies that have shaped our world.
By studying art history, we engage with the past to help us better understand the present and create a vision for the future.
But why is it important to learn about art history?
The Understanding of Cultural and Historical Contexts
Art history is an interesting study of the human condition.
Through historical art pieces, we are able to explore how people from different times and places were able to express their ideas, beliefs, and emotions through visual materials.
Romanesque and Gothic Art, Early Italian art, International Gothic art

Romanesque and Gothic Art :
Romanesque As the name suggests, Romanesque architecture revived certain features of ancient Roman art, especially its sheer ambition: Romanesque buildings are often IMMENSE, Expressing anew confidence following a period when Western Christendom had been threatened with destruction. Large- scale sculpture similarly was revived, and painting and the “minor arts” also flourished.
Gothic : Whereas Romanesque architecture is massive and often overpoweringly | austere, Gothic architecture at its most characteristic is soaringly graceful, based on a new skeletal system of construction that enabled large windows to take the place of solid areas of wall. In painting and sculpture too, art of the Gothic period is typically refined, with figures often having elongated proportions and a sense of flowing elegance. Like Romanesque art, Gothic art was used predominantly in the service of the Christian Church, although it also had secular expressions, particularly when it developed into the courtly style known as International Gothic.
Gislebertus, Nicholas of Verdun , NMiosan School , Gothic stained glass.

Early Italian art:
Italian art of the late 13th and 14th centuries differs fundamentally from that produced elsewhere in Europe at the time. While art in other countries was predominantly of anonymous authorship, in Italy there were numerous painters and sculptors who are known by name and who left a body of documented or firmly attributed works.
Italy at this time was not a unified country, but was made up of a number of small states. It was much more urbanized than other parts of Europe and the major cities competed in many ways, including artistic patronage. They wanted their churches and civic buildings to be bigger and better than those of their rivals, and they wanted to have them decorated by the best available artists.

Nicola and Giovanni Pisano , Cimabue , Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti ,
Duccio di Buoninsegna,Giotto, Simone Martini .

International Gothic art :

Jewel-bright colours, slender, elongated figures in elaborate costumes, and nature observed and recorded in minute detail all characterize the charmed world of International Gothic. Artists of the time blended elements from Italy and northern Europe into a sophisticated idiom. The term “International Gothic” describes a medley of trends that affected the art of various countries in the period from about 1380 to 1430. Elegance of pose and gesture typical of the Gothic style of northern Europe were combined with a new interest in naturalistic detail. Such fashions were spread by the increased mobility of artists and by the rivalry between courts in making extravagant displays of wealth.

Pisanello , Gentile da Fabriano , Paul, Herman, and Jean de Limbourg , Master of the Wilton Diptych .