Giotto - Francesca Flores d'Arçais - Ed Citadelles Mazenod 1996 Superb

• Description (ch)

• This work devotes the glory of Giotto, one of the founders of modern painting.

The impressive and dramatic images created by this brilliant artist exude an intense emotion that captivated his contemporaries and profoundly influenced his successors. Reproduced down to the smallest detail, the frescoes he painted in Assisi, Padua or Florence today seem just as fresh and luminous.

• Giotto changed the course of European art by breaking with the tradition of rigid and stereotyped figures of the Middle Ages.

He innovated by giving his figures movement and natural expression, by reinventing volume and space, but also by an extraordinary work on light and colors. All his stories are populated by characters full of life, of a striking realism, whose smallest sidekicks, comic or tragic, highlight his humor and his wealth of invention.

• Through her research, Francesca Flores d'Arcais has made important reattributions and new insights into the execution

and the chronology of works. The text is illuminated by numerous reproductions, often full-page, of exceptional quality. They come from recent shots of the works, many of which have recently been restored. Restored here in their original brilliance, they contribute to making this work the most complete and sumptuous monograph published on the artist for several decades.

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