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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GenreOther
Length5 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2012
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Early Italian Early Italian Painting Painting
2Authors: Joseph Archer Crowe & Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle Anna Jameson
3Index
4Introduction: Something about Pictures and Painters
5the artists and atmosphere of
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6Pietro Lorenzetti, Christ of Compassion (facing right), between 1340-1345. Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg.
7If
8Early Christianity and Art
9Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters
10This painting, if
11Guido da Siena, The Flagellation, c. 1270-1280. Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg.
12Giovanni Cimabue 1240-1302
131 Franz Kugler, Handbook of
14Cimabue and the Rucellai Madonna
15the most astounding of
16the infant Christ, the features of
17Contemporaries of Cimabue – Gradual Rise of the Art of Florence
18Duccio di Buoninsegna c. 1255-c. 1318
19the works of
20apostles as that of
21The vehemence of
22Ugolino di Nerio 1280(?)-1349
23Pietro Lorenzetti, Virgin and Child (facing left), between 1340-1345. Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg.
24Segna di Bonaventura Active c. 1298-1331
25An altarpiece in the sacristy of
26Carey’s Dante.
27The Campanile du Duomo, 12th and 13th centuries. Siena.
28the Jubilee of 1300, which
29Pietro Cavallini 1259-c. 1330
30The Campo Santo
31Andrea Orcagna c. 1308-1368
32Taddeo Gaddi c. 1300-1366
33Simone Martini, also called Simone Memmi c. 1284-1344
34records confirm, at least, such an account as the following.
35But the triumph of
36SIMON DE SENIS ME PINXIT SUB ANNO MCCCXLII
376 Now at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA).
38NADDUS CECCHARELLI DE SENIS ME PINSIT MCCCXLVII
39Conclusion
40Christ in Limbo (reverse side of his Maestà)
41The Lamentation of Christ
42The Dream of St. Martin
43Introduction to the Knight from the Cavalli Family to the Virgin

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