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Giotto

Giotto

Flores D'arcais, Francesca

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0789211149
ISBN13: 9780789211149
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: Feb 7 2012
Pages: 391
Weight: 8.00
Height: 1.60 Width: 11.30 Depth: 13.20
Language: English
Vasari famously wrote that Giotto recovered the true method of painting, which been lost for many years before him, and indeed he is traditionally considered a founder of the Italian Renaissance. Producing a series of commissioned works for the church and upper classes in his native Tuscany and surrounding regions, Giotto changed the course of European art by breaking away from the rigid, stereotyped figures of the Byzantine and Giotto medieval traditions. His innovation was to give his characters natural movement and expression. His great fresco cycles, such as the lives of the Virgin and Christ in the Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, Padua, are populated with realistic depictions of three-dimensional figures; secondary characters, both comic and tragic, display the range of the painter's wit and invention. And Giotto's treatment of perspective was just as revolutionary as his approach to the human form. The dramatic power of his scenes is heightened by the convincing illusionistic spaces in which he places them.

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