MONUMENTS PROVINCE OF RIMINI
MONUMENTS RIMINI
The Rimini
School of
Painting
The
Rimini School of Painting, with its unique expression, has been one of
the most significant pictorial
currents of the “Trecento”. The Rimini School of Painting was composed
of about ten painters reunited in a single workshop. Among them are
worth mentioning Baronzio, Giovanni, Giuliano, Pietro,
who had a
dramatic personality, and the miniator Neri.
The presence in Rimini of Giotto, called by the Malatesta family, gave a
substantial boost to the vast development and expansion of the Rimini
School, which spread over the Montefeltro, Umbria and Veneto regions and
reached also Croatia. The painters of the Rimini School of painting
assimilated skilfully Giotto’s noteworthy influence. They compared with
the Sienese and Florentine Schools of Painting and developed an
autonomous artistic current influenced by the Byzantine traditions which
are reflected in the mosaics of the nearby Ravenna. The Rimini School of
Painting ended possibly in occasion of the black plague which heavily
spread over Rimini in 1348. Noteworthy tokens of the Rimini School of
Painting are still visible in Sant’Agostino Church. Of immense
significance are the Last Judgement, which once decorated the
triumphal arch, and is at present in the Arengo hall in the City Museum,
masterpiece by the anonymous painter called “Maestro dell’Arengo”, the
frescos in the chapel in the bell tower, representing scenes from the
Life of Our Lady, ascribed to Giovanni from Rimini, and the Tales
of St John the Evangelist, on the side-walls of the choir, ascribed
to Pietro from Rimini, who painted also the noteworthy Crucifix
in the Church of the Deaths in Urbania, nowadays preserved in the
Cathedral. In the province of Rimini it is still possible to admire the
Crucifix by the so-called “Maestro del Refettorio di Pomposa” in
the Collegiate Church of Santarcangelo di Romagna and the frescos by
Jacopo Avanzi in the fortress of Montefiore Conca.