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

Michael Viktor Schwarz (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3205216962 / ISBN 13: 9783205216964

Published by Böhlau Wien, 2023

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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 | Michael Viktor Schwarz (u. a.) | Buch | 426 S. | Deutsch | 2023 | Böhlau Wien | EAN 9783205216964 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Brill Deutschland GmbH, Wollmarktstr. 115, 33098 Paderborn, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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• 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: Böhlau Wien
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3205216962
• ISBN 13: 9783205216964
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 175H x 33D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 175 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1312 grams
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Synopsis

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.