Italian primitives, masterpieces of the Middle Ages

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Italian artists 13c - nachala15v. Primitives, the first of which went to all the others.
Their works have come down to us, for the most part, the board, taken out of once been severed from the altar of images, murals.

In the XIV century in Siena and Florence and art experienced a remarkable flowering, each created its own school. Century later prevailed in Florence, and it was Florentine school (along with Venice) was formative for all subsequent European art.
 A Siena School and has remained unique in its identity phenomenon, confined to one city and one time interval.
Siena School http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%...BE%D0%BB%D0%B0

The first of these, Guido da Siena (Guido da Siena) - Italian painter who worked in Siena in the period between 1260 and 1290 years. He is one of the first artists to break with centuries-old tradition of Byzantine art, rigid composition. He has made more spontaneous gestures and scenes of life, which helped to further the adoption in Italy of emotional pictures Gothic.

The idea of this theme is the maximum number of illustrations of each artist, as much good quality, so you can consider all the details after an additional click.