Giotto
DArcais Francesca Flores
Abbeville Press
Second edition.
English Text.
New York, 2012; hardback, pp. 384, 350 col. ill., cm 24x28.
ISBN: 0-7892-1114-9 - EAN13: 9780789211149
Subject: Monographs (Painting and Drawing)
Period: 1000-1400 (XII-XIV) Middle Ages
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Weight: 3.61 kg
Producing a series of commissioned works for popes, cardinals, and noblemen in and around his native Tuscany, Giotto changed the course of European art by breaking away from the rigid stereotyped figures of the Byzantine and medieval traditions; his innovation was to give his characters natural movement and expression. His lively biblical stories and episodes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi are populated with convincingly realistic depictions of three-dimensional figures: secondary characters, both comic and tragic, display the range of the painter's wit and invention. The illusionistic spaces housing the scenes are masterpieces of perspective: like the earthy humanity captured in the figures, this revolutionary achievement was without equal in Giotto's time.
Baia grande. La pialassa Baiona ultima frontiera per una valle salmastra
Konrad. Per quanto un'oca allunghi il collo non diventerà mai un cigno