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Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

By Schwarz, Michael Viktor, Theis, Pia

Published by Böhlau Wien

English 427 pages 2023 ISBN 9783205216971
Estimated reading time: 7 h 50 min
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Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist.

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