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Author : Hayden B. J. Maginnis
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Painting in the Age of Giotto by : Hayden B. J. Maginnis
Download or read book Painting in the Age of Giotto written by Hayden B. J. Maginnis. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.
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Book Synopsis The World of the Early Sienese Painter by :
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Author : Andrew Ladis
Release : 1998
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Franciscanism, the Papacy, and Art in the Age of Giotto by : Andrew Ladis
Download or read book Franciscanism, the Papacy, and Art in the Age of Giotto written by Andrew Ladis. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as they are sometimes hard to retrieve, it permits readers to consider the state of scholarship on a variety of specific problems surround Giotto's life and sheds light on larger historical issue concerning early Italian art and culture. In doing so, the series lays bare the methodological preoccupations of scholars since the nineteenth century. Above all, matters of connoisseurship and the larger question of the nature of the matter's art have governed the study of Giotto. Perhaps in part because of the intractability of the problems involved in arriving at an agreed-upon catalogue and chronology for Giotto, the Arena Chapel has served the chief means of demonstrating Giotto's pictorial subtlety, his dramatic range, and his intellectual depth. Curiously, the Arena Chapel came to be regarded as the cornerstone of Giotto's genius only in the nineteenth century. The notion of the essentially sculptural character of Giotto's art, pervasive in modern scholarship, is likewise recent, acquiring canonical status thanks to Bernard Berenson's celebration of "tactile values" in the Ognissanti Madonna. The fourth volume includes essays concerned with works attributed to Giotto and workship in Assisi and Rome, paintings, which, no matter what one's view of their connection to Giotto, are now central to any interpretation of the master's career and his legacy.
Author : Dr Péter Bokody
Release : 2015-03-28
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250-1350) by : Dr Péter Bokody
Download or read book Images-within-Images in Italian Painting (1250-1350) written by Dr Péter Bokody. This book was released on 2015-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300 led to the materialization of a pictorial language which dominates global visual culture even today. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Italian meta-painting in the age of Giotto and sheds new light on the early modern and modern history of the phenomenon. The analysis of pictorial illusionism and reality effect together with the liturgical, narrative and typological role of images-within-images makes this work a pioneering contribution to visual studies and premodern Italian culture.
Author : Joachim Poeschke
Release : 2005
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Italian Frescoes, the Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 by : Joachim Poeschke
Download or read book Italian Frescoes, the Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 written by Joachim Poeschke. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are the literary figures we associate with the transitional era between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy. In art history, this time of artistic fertility is represented above all by the name Giotto, the great Florentine artist around whose work revolved the innovations in the visual arts in Italy, during the trecento, which shaped the course of Western art for centuries to follow. Italian cities flourished especially in the early decades of the century, as ambitious architectural projects were undertaken that demanded equally challenging decorative programs. Communal palaces and princely residences, new cathedrals and the spacious churches of the mendicant orders, all provided new tasks for painting, and especially for mural painting." "Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 illustrates in detail the inspired responses to this challenge by Giotto, his contemporaries, and his successors. They undertook a continuous artistic exploration of new ground - in terms of figurative and narrative style as well as in the shaping of pictorial space and use of color. After an introductory overview, the volume begins with an in-depth presentation of the frescoes at San Francesco in Assisi, which became, in the decades around 1300, the great school of Italian painting, where Giotto, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, among others, created a new kind of painted mural and a new style of pictorial narrative. Expansive treatment is given as well to Giotto's masterful Arena Chapel in Padua, a touchstone of European art for writers and artists from Dante to Marcel Proust and from Ghiberti to Henri Matisse. Among the many other highlights of the volume are the chapels painted by Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Maso di Banco, Giovanni da Milano, and Agnolo Gaddi in the church of Santa Croce, Florence; Ambrogio Lorenzetti's monumental allegories of good and bad government in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena; Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death and Last Judgment in Pisa's Camposanto; and, toward the end of the century, Altichiero's frescoes for the Saint George Chapel in Padua."--BOOK JACKET.
