The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings
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- Author: Francesco Benelli, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: December 2011
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- isbn: 9781107016323
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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.
Read more- Giotto's revolutionary attention to unexpected Roman sources
- Giotto's convention of depicting architecture, which lasted several centuries
- The beginning of an independent history of painted architecture parallel to the real one
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107016323
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 185 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- contains: 108 b/w illus. 10 colour illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The cycle of the Legend of San Francis in the upper church of Assisi
2. The Enrico Scrovegni chapel in Padua
3. The Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the church of Santa Croce in Florence
4. The lower church of Assisi
5. Giotto's influence in the lower church of Assisi and the church of Santa Croce in Florence
6. Excursus
Conclusion.
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