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Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life: With a Collection of the Documents and Texts Up to Vasari and an Appendix of Sources on the Arena Chapel

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life: With a Collection of the Documents and Texts Up to Vasari and an Appendix of Sources on the Arena Chapel

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ISBN10: 3205216962
ISBN13: 9783205216964
Publisher: Bohlau Verlag
Published: Apr 17 2023
Pages: 426
Weight: 2.99
Language: English
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.

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