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Author | : Francesco Benelli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107699434 |
Download The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the first artist since antiquity to feature highly-detailed architecture in a primary role in his paintings. Francesco Benelli demonstrates how architecture was used to create pictorial space, one of Giotto's key inventions. He argues that Giotto's innovation was driven by a new attention to classical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics, mural paintings, coins, and Roman ruins. The book shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, both ancient and contemporary, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.
Author | : Laura Jacobus |
Publisher | : Harvey Miller |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Giotto and the Arena Chapel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Appendices present original sources, all of which are newly-discovered, unpublished or previously published in inaccessible editions.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.
Author | : John Ruskin |
Publisher | : London : Arundel Society |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Madonna dell'Arena (Chapel) Padua, Italy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : A. N. Hodge |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Marvin Trachtenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architectural practice |
ISBN | : 9780300165920 |
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In the pre-modern age in Europe, the architect built not merely with imagination, bricks and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration as the means to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve. Virtually all the great cathedrals of France and the rest of Europe were built by this deliberate practice, here given the name "Building-in-Time." It places an entirely new light on the major works of pre-modern Italy, from the Pisa cathedral group to the cathedrals of Milan, Venice and Siena, and from the monuments of fourteenth-century Florence to the new St Peter's. Even as this temporal regime was flourishing, the fifteenth-century Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti proposed a new one for architecture, in which time would ideally be excluded from the making of architecture ("Building-outside-Time"). Planning and building, which had always formed one fluid, imbricated process, were to be sharply divided, and the change that always came with time was to be excluded from architectural making.
Author | : Anne Derbes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521770076 |
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Author | : Hayden B. J. Maginnis |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.
Author | : Julian Gardner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674050800 |
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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 | : Jill Dunkerton |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300050828 |
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"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.
Author | : Jacqueline Guillaud |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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This breathtaking presentation of Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua includes more than 100 reproductions printed on the beautiful translucent paper first seen in Fra Angelico. 152 full-color and 50 black-and-white illustrations.