Download or read book Giotto s Hand written by Iain Pears and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble. His theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue.
Download or read book Giotto s Hand written by Iain Pears and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Taddeo Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad thinks that a single master criminal, dubbed "Giotto, " is behind more than two dozen thefts of unphotographed art.
Download or read book Giotto the Painter Volume 1 3 written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giotto the Painter Volume 3 Survival written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giotto the Painter Volume 1 Life written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giotto and the Arena Chapel written by Laura Jacobus and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2008 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giotto the Painter Volume 2 Works written by Michael Viktor Schwarz and published by Böhlau Wien. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mario s Angels written by Mary Arrigan and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Giotto written by James H. Stubblebine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1969 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An introduction to Giotto's frescoes in Padua with an analytical essay, documents, and source materials ..."--Cover.
Download or read book Giotto written by Basil De Selincourt and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Boy Named Giotto written by Paolo Guarnieri and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 1999 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.
Download or read book The Portraits of Dante Compared with the Measurement of His Skull and Reclassified written by Frank Jewett Mather and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy written by William Robert Cook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New studies of the Basilica in Assisi as well as innovative looks at early panel paintings and Franciscan stained glass are included.
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Download or read book A New History of Painting in Italy Early Christian art Giotto and his followers written by Joseph Archer Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anglo Italian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
