Byzantine and Renaissance influences in Giotto and Duccio

History Of Art

Italian painters from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries have definitely been inclined to adopt Byzantine styles when painting. Even though having Byzantine features involved in their paintings meant that they would have to abandon new and daring concepts which added a touch of reality, they still made good use of traditional elements coming from the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Duccio di Boninsegna and Giotto di Bondone have been two of the Italian painters acknowledged as having had a major influence on Italian painting. The two painters have each gone at painting the Christ entering Jerusalem scene, and, even with the fact that they had been contemporaries (and had presumably been influenced by similar events throughout their lives), their paintings differ greatly.

Duccio di Boninsegna has certainly managed to master the art of painting during his life, and, he proved to be successful in spite of his reluctance to adopt new concepts in his works. On the contrary, Giotto di Bondone had been a revolutionary, as he seemed to be determined to desert long-standing concepts in favor of newer, and more evolved ones.