The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings |
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| Author:
| Benelli, Francesco |
| ISBN: | 978-1-107-01632-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Francesco Benelli shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.
This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Francesco Benelli shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.