Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3
Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Total Pages: 1454
Release: 2023-04-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3205217357

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.

Painting in the Age of Giotto

Painting in the Age of Giotto
Author: Hayden B. J. Maginnis
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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

Giotto

Giotto
Author: Giotto
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Painters
ISBN:

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 3: Survival

Giotto the Painter. Volume 3: Survival
Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2023-04-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3205217330

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.

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life
Author: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Publisher: Böhlau Wien
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2023-04-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3205216970

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.

Mario's Angels

Mario's Angels
Author: Mary Arrigan
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1845074041

Young Mario wants to help Giotto as he paints a fresco featuring the nativity scene, but he only causes trouble until he figures out what the picture is missing.

Giotto to Dürer

Giotto to Dürer
Author: Jill Dunkerton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300050828

"This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.

Giotto

Giotto
Author: Bruce Cole
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1993
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

"Thirty miles to the southwest of Venice, in a small park in Padua, lies a modest red brick building, the Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, that contains one of the jewels of Early Renaissance art: the most extensive fresco cycle by Giotto. Perfectly preserved, it established Giotto's genius for displacing the Byzantine style of painting and introducing the fundamental principles of Renaissance humanism into art. Painted around 1306, the nearly forty large frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Chapel tell stories from the lives of the Virgin, Christ, and the Virgin's parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne. Created with a subtle yet brilliant array of colors - shimmering blues, golden reds, subtle ivories - these easy-to-read narrative panels have remained comprehensible and evocative to viewers for generations; this may be because, unlike much of the art that preceded Giotto, his images contain sacred figures that behave in human ways, bodies as well as faces that register human feelings familiar to us all. The Scrovegni Chapel is Giotto's masterpiece; it established him as the most famous artist of his day, not only in Italy but in all of Europe. It is little wonder that the art of Giotto has held the attention of Western civilization for over half a millennium"--Bookjacket.

A Concise History of Painting

A Concise History of Painting
Author: Michael Levey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494084806

This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.