Early Italian Painting

From Giotto to Fra Angelico: the birth of perspectiveBy Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Anna Jameson
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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 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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Length5 hrs
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Table of contents

1Introduction
2Introduction: Something about Pictures and Painters
3Revival of Art in Siena – Fundamental Difference between Sienese and Florentine Art
4Early Christianity and Art
5Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters
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6Guido da Siena 13th Century
7Giovanni Cimabue 1240-1302
8Cimabue and the Rucellai Madonna: Contemporaries of Cimabue – Gradual Rise of the Art of Florence
9Duccio di Buoninsegna c. 1255-c. 1318
10Ugolino di Nerio 1280(?)-1349
11Segna di Bonaventura Active c. 1298-1331
12Giotto di Bondone 1267-1337
13Pietro Cavallini 1259-c. 1330
14The Campo Santo
15Andrea Orcagna c. 1308-1368
16Taddeo Gaddi c. 1300-1366
17Simone Martini, also called Simone Memmi c. 1284-1344
18Conclusion

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