Author: Giotto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giotto, 1266?-1337
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Giotto Frescoes
Author: Giotto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giotto, 1266?-1337
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giotto, 1266?-1337
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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The Glorious Impossible
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780671686901
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the life of Jesus Christ and presents twenty-four paintings showing scenes from the life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780671686901
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the life of Jesus Christ and presents twenty-four paintings showing scenes from the life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto.
Giotto
Author: Bruce Cole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"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.
Giotto
Author: Anna Maria Spiazzi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788884918482
Category : Mural painting and decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788884918482
Category : Mural painting and decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Giotto and the Arena Chapel
Author: Laura Jacobus
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes. Appendices present original sources, all of which are newly-discovered, unpublished or previously published in inaccessible editions. An outline of the early history of the Scrovegni family and the career of the chapel's patron, Enrico Scrovegni, introduces the first part of the book. It is argued that the chapel's varied functions played an important part in determining the form of the building and the content of its frescoes. A complete reconstruction of the appearance of the Arena Chapel at the time of its consecration in 1305 forms the basis for an entirely new understanding of Giotto's frescoes. Giotto was the architect of the Arena Chapel, architecture and decoration were completely integrated in his design. Changes in the design brief during the period 1300-1305 prevented the full realization of his design. Some of the paintings now seen in the Arena Chapel, which have always been attributed to Giotto, are not in fact by him. Several independent masters worked under Giotto's direction. He headed a flexibly-organized workshop. Part II is introduced by a discussion of the frescoes that would be encountered by visitors to the Arena Chapel. These frescoes were deliberately placed in these positions by Giotto in order to further a process of luminal transformation upon entry into sacred space. Giotto employed radically new compositional devices to evoke correspondences between the pictured protagonists in their fictive environments, and viewers in the real environment of the chapel. Dr. Laura Jacobus' research interests cover various aspects of Italian visual culture during the period c.1250-1450. She teaches at Birkbeck University of London.
Publisher: Harvey Miller
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes. Appendices present original sources, all of which are newly-discovered, unpublished or previously published in inaccessible editions. An outline of the early history of the Scrovegni family and the career of the chapel's patron, Enrico Scrovegni, introduces the first part of the book. It is argued that the chapel's varied functions played an important part in determining the form of the building and the content of its frescoes. A complete reconstruction of the appearance of the Arena Chapel at the time of its consecration in 1305 forms the basis for an entirely new understanding of Giotto's frescoes. Giotto was the architect of the Arena Chapel, architecture and decoration were completely integrated in his design. Changes in the design brief during the period 1300-1305 prevented the full realization of his design. Some of the paintings now seen in the Arena Chapel, which have always been attributed to Giotto, are not in fact by him. Several independent masters worked under Giotto's direction. He headed a flexibly-organized workshop. Part II is introduced by a discussion of the frescoes that would be encountered by visitors to the Arena Chapel. These frescoes were deliberately placed in these positions by Giotto in order to further a process of luminal transformation upon entry into sacred space. Giotto employed radically new compositional devices to evoke correspondences between the pictured protagonists in their fictive environments, and viewers in the real environment of the chapel. Dr. Laura Jacobus' research interests cover various aspects of Italian visual culture during the period c.1250-1450. She teaches at Birkbeck University of London.
Giotto
Author: James H. Stubblebine
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314069
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"An introduction to Giotto's frescoes in Padua with an analytical essay, documents, and source materials ..."--Cover.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393314069
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"An introduction to Giotto's frescoes in Padua with an analytical essay, documents, and source materials ..."--Cover.
Iconographic Atlas of Giotto's Chapel, 1300-1305
Author: Claudio Bellinati
Publisher: Grafiche Vianello srl
ISBN: 9788872001448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Giotto di Bondone is best known for the frescoes he painted in the Arena Chapel, Padua, his best preserved work. In this exquisite, magnificently illustrated volume, Claudio Bellinati's texts help the reader to discover the literal, poetic and artistic significance of every scene.
Publisher: Grafiche Vianello srl
ISBN: 9788872001448
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Giotto di Bondone is best known for the frescoes he painted in the Arena Chapel, Padua, his best preserved work. In this exquisite, magnificently illustrated volume, Claudio Bellinati's texts help the reader to discover the literal, poetic and artistic significance of every scene.
Giotto
Author: Francesca Flores d'Arcais
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789211149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The preface to the second Italian edition was translated by Marguerite Shore"--T.p. verso.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780789211149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The preface to the second Italian edition was translated by Marguerite Shore"--T.p. verso.
Giotto: the Arena Chapel Frescoes
Author: James H. Stubblebine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Giotto and His Publics
Author: Julian Gardner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674050800
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto's path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674050800
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto's path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.