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16%OFFFrancesca Flores D´arcais - Giotto - 9780789212665 - V9780789212665
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Giotto

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Description for Giotto Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACK; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 284 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1756.

Vasari famously wrote that Giotto "recovered the true method of painting, which had been lost for many years before him," and indeed, he is traditionally considered a founder of the Italian Renaissance. Producing a series of commissioned works for the church and upper classes in his native Tuscany and surrounding regions, Giotto changed the course of European art by breaking away from the rigid, stereotyped figures of the Byzantine and medieval traditions. His innovation was to give his characters natural movement and expression. His great fresco cycles, such as the lives of the Virgin and Christ in the Scrovegni (or ... Read more

More than three hundred illustrations, most in full colour and some on double gatefold pages, reproduce all of Giotto's important frescoes in exquisite detail, as well as his moving crucifixes and jewel-like polyptychs. These splendid images and d'Arcais's insightful text, now, for the first time, in an affordable paperback edition, make this the definitive monograph on the greatest of trecento masters.

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Product Details

Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
Weight
1755g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780789212665
SKU
V9780789212665
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Ref
99-5

About Francesca Flores D´arcais
Francesca Flores d'Arcais is a professor of art history at the University of Verona, Italy. An expert in the field of northern Italian painting, she has made numerous contributions to the study of medieval and Renaissance art over the course of her distinguished teaching career.

Reviews for Giotto
"A magnificent book."
Publishers Weekly "Giotto receives his due in what will be the standard book on his work for years to come."
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