Early Italian Painting.
Joseph Archer. Crowe
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (220 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Introduction: Something about Pictures and Painters -- Revival of Art in Siena - Fundamental Difference between Sienese and Florentine Art -- Early Christianity and Art -- Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters -- Guido da Siena 13th Century -- Giovanni Cimabue 1240-1302 -- Cimabue and the Rucellai Madonna -- Contemporaries of Cimabue - Gradual Rise of the Art of Florence -- Duccio di Buoninsegna c. 1255-c. 1318 -- Ugolino di Nerio 1280(?)-1349 -- Segna di Bonaventura Active c. 1298-1331 -- Giotto di Bondone 1267-1337 -- Pietro Cavallini 1259-c. 1330 -- The Campo Santo -- Andrea Orcagna c. 1308-1368 -- Taddeo Gaddi c. 1300-1366 -- Simone Martini, also called Simone Memmi c. 1284-1344 -- Conclusion -- Index -- Notes.. - Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescos on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The faces of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined to reinforce specific symbolic choices. Ultimately the Early Italian artists wished to make the invisible visible. In this magnificent book, the authors emphasise the importance that the rivalry between the Sienese and Florentine schools played in the evolution of art history. The reader will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form through these forgotten masterworks, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.
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| ISBN | 9781780428055
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