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Battle Scene

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi

1450

tempera

panel

From the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum

Early Renaissance Renaissance History Painting

Dominant colour

Battle Scene is a 1450 tempera by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, a Early Renaissance work, held at J. Paul Getty Museum.

Who painted this?: Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi
When & what style?: 1450 · Early Renaissance
Where can I see it?: J. Paul Getty Museum

About this work

This painting shows a chaotic battle scene with many people on horseback. They are wearing old-fashioned armor and holding weapons like swords and spears. The horses are white, brown, and black, and some are rearing up on their hind legs. The people in the painting are wearing colorful clothing, including red, orange, and yellow. Some are wearing helmets and others have their hair flowing in the wind. The background is a hilly landscape with trees and buildings in the distance. The painting is done in tempera, a technique that uses egg yolks to bind pigments. To learn more about this technique, look up tempera.

About the artist

Artist

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi

Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, (1406 – 1486) also known as Lo Scheggia, or "the Splinter" was an Italian Renaissance painter in Florence who was born in San Giovanni Valdarno and was the younger brother of the famous Masaccio.

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