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.

Schwarz, Viktor M. / Theis, Pia:

Published by Wien: Böhlau, 2023

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425 S., Abb. Kart. *neuwertig* 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. Sprache: Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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.
• Publisher: Wien: Böhlau
• Publication Date: 2023
• Binding: fester Einband
• Seller catalogs:
  • Künstlermonographien