History of Western Art(Early Renaissance: Giotto, Masaccio)
INTRODUCTION(the Italian Renaissance , c 1250-1550)
In late medieval period, from about 1000 AD, paintings mainly took place in monasteries.
Paintings were done in the manuscripts, monks would use gold leaf in the illumination and a range of stylized imagery was used.
Occasionally, walls were decorated with the scenes from Bible, thus the paintings made at that time was very much religious….