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Giotto and His Works in Padua
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Giotto and His Works in Padua Paperback - 2018

by Ruskin, John

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David Zwirner Inc, 2018. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 72 pages. 7.00x4.00x0.40 inches.
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  • Title Giotto and His Works in Padua
  • Author Ruskin, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher David Zwirner Inc
  • Date 2018
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2-1941701795
  • ISBN 9781941701799 / 1941701795
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 4.25 x 0.6 in (17.78 x 10.80 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.5

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John Ruskin (1819-1900) was an English critic of art, architecture, and society, who sought change through his polemical prose. Best know for his five-volume treatise on art, Modern Painters--published volume by volume from 1843 to 1860 - Ruskin applied Romantic thought to art criticism, rather than relying solely on religious tradition. In doing so, he opened up possibilities surrounding the appreciation and understanding of art, through emotive descriptions, rather than illustration. Particularly intrigued by the painting of the Gothic Middle Ages, Ruskin felt that painters such as Giotto and Fra Angelico were the ideal subject for modern painters. Ruskin's then novel insistence that art and architecture are the direct expression of the conditions in which they were made, continues to influence the study of the fields today.

Giotto (c.1267-1337) is widely known for his role in liberating Italian painting from the Byzantine style of the early Middle Ages. Mainly active in Florence, although he may have been trained in Rome, he also worked in Avignon, Padua and Naples (1328-32). His contribution to challenging and forever changing Italian painting was widely acknowledged by Dante his contemporary, and later by Vasari. His style is associated with a supreme sense of momentous and his individualized, emotive figures are depicted with a new sense of three-dimensionality while inhabiting plausible architectural spaces. Giotto's main surviving fresco cycles are those in the Arena Chapel, Padua, which probably date from just before 1305, and those in the Bardi and Peruzzi chapels in Santa Croce, Florence, probably before 1328.