“Christ entering Jerusalem”
Maesta Altar
Artist- Duccio
Tempera on wood, Size: 40x 21”
Duccio was significant to his time as an artist, because he was one of the first to change the way art was created. He moved the style of art from the High Middle ages toward the Renaissance. What Duccio succeeded at is creating a great amount of space in such a small area. He achieved this by using linear perspective, which was based on the view that parallel lines appeared to converge as they go further from the viewer, while meeting at a vanishing point.
The painting “Christ entering Jerusalem,” portrays various amount of color and puts the viewer at an angle where everything would be seen as if to be present. He uses a great variety of red orange to make the painting stand out and feel vibrant. All the lines are going toward the middle pointing to Christ, so that way the point of action is on him. Duccio opened a door for many more great Renaissance artists to come, by introducing Christianity into art and using different perspectives.
