The World of Giotto

Eimerl, Sarel

ISBN 10 : 1111850186 ISBN 13 : 9781111850180

Editeur : Time-Life Books, 1979, c1967., 1967

Synopsis

Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. hIS contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the Comune of Florence in virtue of his talent and excellence." Giorgio Vasari says of "He made a decisive break with the crude traditional Byzantine style, and brought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years." His masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, commonly called the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ and is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance. He painted the Arena Chapel was chosen by the Comune of Florence in 1334 to design the bell tower of the Florence Cathedral . It has been traditional to hold that Giotto was born in a hilltop farmhouse, perhaps at Colle di Romagnano or Romignano. Recent research, however, has suggested that he was actually born in Florence, the son of a blacksmith His father's name was Bondone, described in surviving public records as "a person of good standing". In his Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari relates that Giotto was a shepherd boy, a merry and intelligent child who was loved by all who knew him. The great Florentine painter Cimabue discovered Giotto drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock. They were so lifelike that Cimabue approached Bondone and asked if he could take the boy as an apprentice.[2] Cimabue was one of the two most highly renowned painters of Tuscany, the other being Duccio, who worked mainly in Siena.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Time-Life Books, 1979, c1967.
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1111850186
• ISBN 13: 9781111850180
• Reliure: Unknown Binding
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