Giotto

Giotto

Author: Giotto

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 148

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The artist who influenced the whole of the Italian Renaissance, of whom Vasari wrote "GIOTTO restored the link between art and nature."


Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz

Publisher: Böhlau Wien

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 3205216970

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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.


Painting in the Age of Giotto

Painting in the Age of Giotto

Author: Hayden B. J. Maginnis

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 376

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This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.


Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3

Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz

Publisher: Böhlau Wien

Published: 2023-04-17

Total Pages: 1454

ISBN-13: 3205217357

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Vol. 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.


Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Vol. 1-10)

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Vol. 1-10)

Author: Giorgio Vasari

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-13

Total Pages: 2891

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"Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" in 10 volumes is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered one of the most influential and most-read work of the older literature of art, as well as the first important book on art history. The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives. As the first Italian art historian, Vasari initiated the genre of an encyclopedia of artistic biographies that continues today. The book contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, including a sketch of Vasari's autobiography, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names.


Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Vol. 1-10)

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Vol. 1-10)

Author: Giorgio Vasari

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 2403

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"Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" in 10 volumes is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered one of the most influential and most-read work of the older literature of art, as well as the first important book on art history. The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives. As the first Italian art historian, Vasari initiated the genre of an encyclopedia of artistic biographies that continues today. The book contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, including a sketch of Vasari's autobiography, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names.


Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Author: Giorgio Vasari

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2005-07-26

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0486441806

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One of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.


The History of Art

The History of Art

Author: A. N. Hodge

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1499464037

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From the glories of the High Renaissance in Italy to the emotional visions of the Romantics, and from the groundbreaking techniques of the Impressionists to the radical canvases of the Abstract Expressionists, this book provides a fascinating look at the major movements in the history of Western painting. A clear chronological structure allows the reader to see each movement in its historical context and to appreciate the patterns that emerge. The historical framework shows the extent to which the powers of royalty, religion, and revolution have exerted their influence in the artistic sphere.