The Assisi Problem and the Art of Giotto
Author | : Alastair Smart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Assisi (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alastair Smart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Assisi (Italy) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bayeux Collective |
Publisher | : Stories Behind the Art |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781897411858 |
Book includes textual excerpts from G. K. Chesterton's Saint Francis of Assisi.
Author | : Julian Gardner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674050800 |
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.
Author | : Donal Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Art patronage |
ISBN | : 9780300195712 |
For a moment at the close of the 13th century the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin church. The election of Nicholas IV was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco. In this book the authors investigate the particular moment the frescoes were made casting new light on their patronage and iconography.
Author | : Giotto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Mural painting and decoration, Italian |
ISBN | : 9781897411988 |
Author | : Vincent Moleta |
Publisher | : Franciscan Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elvio Lunghi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert G. Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leonetto Tintori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Art historian and art restorer investigate the materials used and the methods employed in painting the fresco of the life of St. Francis, in the Upper Church at Assisi. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Author | : Rona Goffen |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Few saints have received so much attention as Francis of Assisi and few artists so much attention as Giotto di Bondone--and yet the master's cycle of Saint Francis in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence has been little discussed. Similarly, the remarkable panel that now serves as the chapel's altarpiece has been given only cursory consideration by historians and art historians--even though this panel, with its twenty narrative scenes of the saint's life, represents the most complete visualization of mid-thirteenth-century Franciscan spirituality which has survived. In this book Goffen shoes how the history of Santa Croce itself, which contains both of these works of art, parallels and summarizes the early history of the Order of Friars Minor. Santa Croce was and is the most important Franciscan church of Florence and, like the order itself in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was bitterly divided into opposing factions, the Spirituals and the Conventuals. We see here that, tragically, the source of their disagreement lay in the character of Saint Francis himself. Unlike the Dominicans--and, indeed, unlike all other contemporary religious orders--the Friars Minor fostered a "cult of personality" of their founder. Precisely because Francis provided the example for his friars, the way in which his character was presented in art and in literature became of the utmost concern to the order, a matter requiring deep consideration and, eventually, careful control. But despite their disagreements, the factions were agreed about one central point: Francis was unique in having received the wounds of Crucifixion as a sign of divine approbation. Goffen considers the church of Santa Croce, the Bardi Dossal, and Giotto's cycle of Saint Francis both in relation to each other and in the context of the history and spirituality of the Franciscan order during its first century. The dossal is the visual equivalent of the writings of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis. The hero of the dossal is the Spiritual ideal, but by the time the Bardi family had commissioned its chapel of Saint Francis, almost a century after the dossal was painted, the Conventuals had effectively taken over the church and friary of Santa Croce. Giotto's cycle of Saint Francis in the Bardi Chapel is understood as the representation of the Conventual Saint Francis, the purposeful and controlled hero of Bonaventure's biography, which had been imposed as the only official life of a saint.