
Discover the beauty of Early Italian art
From Giotto to the Renaissance dawnBy Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Anna JamesonLength1h 19m
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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 frescoes on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The visages 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, in the course of these forgotten masterworks, will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
8Ugolino di Nerio
2INTRODUCTION
9Segna di Bonaventura
3EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ART
10Giotto di Bondone
4THE EARLY ITALIAN PAINTERS
11Pietro Cavallini
5Guido da Siena
12Andrea Orcagna
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6Giovanni Cimabue
13Taddeo Gaddi
7Duccio di Buoninsegna
14Simone Martini, also called Simone Memmi