Giotto And The Arena Chapel

Author : Laura Jacobus
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082635338

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Giotto and the Arena Chapel by Laura Jacobus Pdf

This book is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes. Appendices present original sources, all of which are newly-discovered, unpublished or previously published in inaccessible editions. An outline of the early history of the Scrovegni family and the career of the chapel's patron, Enrico Scrovegni, introduces the first part of the book. It is argued that the chapel's varied functions played an important part in determining the form of the building and the content of its frescoes. A complete reconstruction of the appearance of the Arena Chapel at the time of its consecration in 1305 forms the basis for an entirely new understanding of Giotto's frescoes. Giotto was the architect of the Arena Chapel, architecture and decoration were completely integrated in his design. Changes in the design brief during the period 1300-1305 prevented the full realization of his design. Some of the paintings now seen in the Arena Chapel, which have always been attributed to Giotto, are not in fact by him. Several independent masters worked under Giotto's direction. He headed a flexibly-organized workshop. Part II is introduced by a discussion of the frescoes that would be encountered by visitors to the Arena Chapel. These frescoes were deliberately placed in these positions by Giotto in order to further a process of luminal transformation upon entry into sacred space. Giotto employed radically new compositional devices to evoke correspondences between the pictured protagonists in their fictive environments, and viewers in the real environment of the chapel. Dr. Laura Jacobus' research interests cover various aspects of Italian visual culture during the period c.1250-1450. She teaches at Birkbeck University of London.

Author : Henrike Christiane Lange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009041652

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Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility by Henrike Christiane Lange Pdf

In this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked details, Lange offers an entirely new reading of the stunning frescoes in their spatial configuration. The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel's place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante's Divine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous “Assisi controversy” and cast new light on the debate around Giotto's authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.

Author : Giotto,Giuseppe Basile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Allegories
ISBN : 0500275424

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Giotto, the Arena Chapel Frescoes by Giotto,Giuseppe Basile Pdf

The results of this recording are now made available for the first time in their entirety. All the paintings are shown complete and in a series of details, many of them actual size, in which expressions and brush strokes speak out vividly across seven hundred years. The reproductions are printed in color to the highest standard. Accompanying texts provide the art-historical background, explain the narratives, and describe the frescoes' survival through the centuries. Giotto: The Arena Chapel Frescoes captures as never before the artist's supreme achievement in all its epoch-making power - his magisterial representation of weight and volume, his genius for storytelling, his compassion and his irresistible sense of drama. This is the definitive record of one of Western art's greatest treasures.

Author : Claudio Bellinati
Publisher : Grafiche Vianello srl
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 8872001447

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Iconographic Atlas of Giotto's Chapel, 1300-1305 by Claudio Bellinati Pdf

Giotto di Bondone is best known for the frescoes he painted in the Arena Chapel, Padua, his best preserved work. In this exquisite, magnificently illustrated volume, Claudio Bellinati's texts help the reader to discover the literal, poetic and artistic significance of every scene.

Author : Bruce Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015032878863

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Giotto by Bruce Cole Pdf

"Thirty miles to the southwest of Venice, in a small park in Padua, lies a modest red brick building, the Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, that contains one of the jewels of Early Renaissance art: the most extensive fresco cycle by Giotto. Perfectly preserved, it established Giotto's genius for displacing the Byzantine style of painting and introducing the fundamental principles of Renaissance humanism into art. Painted around 1306, the nearly forty large frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Chapel tell stories from the lives of the Virgin, Christ, and the Virgin's parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne. Created with a subtle yet brilliant array of colors - shimmering blues, golden reds, subtle ivories - these easy-to-read narrative panels have remained comprehensible and evocative to viewers for generations; this may be because, unlike much of the art that preceded Giotto, his images contain sacred figures that behave in human ways, bodies as well as faces that register human feelings familiar to us all. The Scrovegni Chapel is Giotto's masterpiece; it established him as the most famous artist of his day, not only in Italy but in all of Europe. It is little wonder that the art of Giotto has held the attention of Western civilization for over half a millennium"--Bookjacket.

Author : Andrew Ladis
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015077140898

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Giotto's O by Andrew Ladis Pdf

A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry.

Author : Anne Derbes,Mark Sandona
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015077118829

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The Usurer's Heart by Anne Derbes,Mark Sandona Pdf

At the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni constructed the most opulent palace that the city of Padua had seen, and he engaged the great Florentine painter, Giotto, to decorate the walls of his private chapel (1303-5). In that same decade, Dante consigned Enrico's father, a notorious usurer, to the seventh circle of hell. The frescoes rank with Dante's Divine Comedy as some of the great monuments of late medieval Italian culture, and yet much about the fresco program is incompletely understood. Most traditional studies of the Arena Chapel have examined the frescoes as individual compositions, largely divorced from their original context, almost as if they were panels detached from an altarpiece and hung on a museum wall for the viewing pleasure of the connoisseur. Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona, in contrast, consider each image as part of an intricate network of visual and theological associations comparable to that of Dante's poem. The authors show how this remarkable ensemble of paintings offers complex meanings, meanings shaped by several interested parties--patron, confessor, and painter. The Usurer's Heart pieces together new historical evidence on the chapel's origins and describes the fresco program as, in part, an attempt to ameliorate the Scrovegni family's reputation. It interprets the chapel's fresco program and the chapel's place in the heart of an ambitious and guilt-ridden moneylender.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Mural painting and decoration
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000128389

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Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Anne Derbes,Mark Sandona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521770071

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The Cambridge Companion to Giotto by Anne Derbes,Mark Sandona Pdf

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Author : Francesca Flores d'Arcais
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0789211149

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Giotto by Francesca Flores d'Arcais Pdf

"The preface to the second Italian edition was translated by Marguerite Shore"--T.p. verso.

Author : Giotto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758187408

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Giotto by Giotto Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Mural painting and decoration
ISBN : OXFORD:590862914

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Giotto and his works in Padua: being an explanatory notice of the series of woodcuts executed for the Arundel society after the frescoes in the Arena chapel by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : James H. Stubblebine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Art
ISBN : 0393314065

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Giotto by James H. Stubblebine Pdf

"An introduction to Giotto's frescoes in Padua with an analytical essay, documents, and source materials ..."--Cover.

Author : James H. Stubblebine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760550574

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Giotto by James H. Stubblebine Pdf

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 0671686909

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The Glorious Impossible by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

Describes the life of Jesus Christ and presents twenty-four paintings showing scenes from the life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto.