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The architecture in Giotto's paintings

Benelli, Francesco, Giotto, 1266?-1337

Overview

\"This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the first artist since antiquity to feature highly detailed architecture in a primary role in his paintings. Francesco Benelli demonstrates how architecture was used to create pictorial space, one of Giotto's key inventions. He argues that Giotto's innovation was driven by a new attention to classical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics, mural paintings, coins and Roman ruins. The book shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, both ancient and contemporary, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Giotto, 1266?-1337 Criticism and interpretation. / Architecture in art. / Mural painting and decoration, Italian Themes, motives. / Mural painting and decoration, Gothic Italy Themes, motives. / ART / General.
• ISBN: 9781107016323, 1107016320

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ND623.G6 B45 2012	1	BOOK	ARTS