Yes they do. Based on how old the artwork is, who created it, and the condition that it is in, determines to value of the aforementioned artwork. <span />
Unformatted text preview: refers to the pre-Renaissance period in Italy, and the doings of progressive painters such as Giotto , who forged the new form of figurative "realism", which was fully established by artists during the era of Renaissance art proper. The Birth of Mary is a panel painting which was one of the four primary painting media practiced during the Gothic period. The Gothic period made use of the technique of oil painting to create meticulously detailed works, correct in perspective, where apparent realism was united with richly intricate symbolism arising precisely from the realistic detail they could now include, this is also visible in the Birth of Mary. The use of proportion in this work is something of the Renaissance period and the first major treatment of said technique was in the work of Giotto, someone who heavily influenced Lorenzetti....
