The Cambridge Companion to Giotto
Author: Anne Derbes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 0521770076
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Author: Anne Derbes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 0521770076
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Author: Anne Derbes
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 313
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 1454
ISBN-13: 3205217357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVol. 1: Life Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist. Vol. 2: Works The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again. Vol. 3: Survival Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerges is that Giotto's impact cannot be reduced simply to the introduction of the study of nature. Rather, his art was involved in the development of pictorial idioms that were attuned to the skills and interests of their audiences. The new approaches in his painting contributed in particular to the possibility of examining and communicating psychological, narrative and allegorical content of great complexity outside the media of language and text, which not only changed the face of European art but certainly contributed to the intellectual opening of Western societies.
Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 3205216970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGiotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist.
Author: Michael Wyatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 0521876060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.
Author: Guyda Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1107014352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major re-evaluation of Boccaccio's status as literary innovator and cultural mediator equal to that of Petrarch and Dante.
Author: Henrike Christiane Lange
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 1009041657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked details, Lange offers an entirely new reading of the stunning frescoes in their spatial configuration. The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel's place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante's Divine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous “Assisi controversy” and cast new light on the debate around Giotto's authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.
Author: Moshe Barasch
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521386609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 3205217314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again.
Author: Michael Prestwich
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0500772312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and revelatory exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by a renowned historian This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th–century duke of Burgundy, were failures. Contrary to modern myth, medieval people did not believe the earth was flat; torture was far less common than in later centuries; and technological advances included guns, printing, blast furnaces, spectacles, stirrups and the compass. Full of insights such as these, this book shows how medieval people lived in an era that was more one of invention and innovation than of superstition and backwardness. It will appeal to all those who want a truer picture of a world often erroneously portrayed by bestselling novelists of today.