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, Pia Theis

ISBN 10: 3205216962 / ISBN 13: 9783205216964

Published by Boehlau Verlag, 2023

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Zustand: Akzeptabel | Seiten: 426 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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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: Boehlau Verlag
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3205216962
• ISBN 13: 9783205216964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Akzeptabel
• Seller catalogs:
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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.