Giotto
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few figures in Western art stand as monumentally as Giotto di Bondone, the Florentine master who shattered the flat, gilded conventions of Byzantine painting and breathed mortal life into sacred stories. This landmark volume presents a comprehensive survey of Giotto's revolutionary body of work, chronicling his celebrated fresco cycles — from the breathtaking Scrovegni Chapel in Padua to the Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels in Florence — alongside contextual essays that situate the artist within the turbulent spiritual and political landscape of 14th-century Italy. With meticulous full-colour reproductions, the book illuminates Giotto's radical innovations: his command of three-dimensional space, his unprecedented psychological depth, and his ability to render grief, ecstasy, and devotion with startling human immediacy. Widely regarded as the father of Western painting and a direct forerunner of the Renaissance, Giotto's influence resonates across six centuries of art history, from Masaccio and Michelangelo to every subsequent artist who sought to make paint tell a human truth. This authoritative study argues that to understand Giotto is to understand the very origins of the modern pictorial tradition — a tradition built on the radical premise that sacred art should move us as profoundly as life itself. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of art history alike, this volume poses an irresistible question: how did one painter, working in plaster and pigment, permanently alter the course of human visual culture?
Author: Luciano Bellosi
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few figures in Western art stand as monumentally as Giotto di Bondone, the Florentine master who shattered the flat, gilded conventions of Byzantine painting and breathed mortal life into sacred stories. This landmark volume presents a comprehensive survey of Giotto's revolutionary body of work, chronicling his celebrated fresco cycles — from the breathtaking Scrovegni Chapel in Padua to the Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels in Florence — alongside contextual essays that situate the artist within the turbulent spiritual and political landscape of 14th-century Italy. With meticulous full-colour reproductions, the book illuminates Giotto's radical innovations: his command of three-dimensional space, his unprecedented psychological depth, and his ability to render grief, ecstasy, and devotion with startling human immediacy. Widely regarded as the father of Western painting and a direct forerunner of the Renaissance, Giotto's influence resonates across six centuries of art history, from Masaccio and Michelangelo to every subsequent artist who sought to make paint tell a human truth. This authoritative study argues that to understand Giotto is to understand the very origins of the modern pictorial tradition — a tradition built on the radical premise that sacred art should move us as profoundly as life itself. For collectors, scholars, and lovers of art history alike, this volume poses an irresistible question: how did one painter, working in plaster and pigment, permanently alter the course of human visual culture?