The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings

Benelli shows how Giotto's images of buildings and well-known monuments play an important role in the meaning of his works.

Sommario

Introduction; 1. The cycle of the Legend of San Francis in the upper church of Assisi; 2. The Enrico Scrovegni chapel in Padua; 3. The Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 4. The lower church of Assisi; 5. Giotto's influence in the lower church of Assisi and the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 6. Excursus; Conclusion.

Info autore

Francesco Benelli is Associate Professor of Renaissance Architecture in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He was the recipient of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and a Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has published widely on several aspects of Renaissance architecture, as well as on issues of building material and technique and the history of design and construction.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Francesco Benelli, Francesco (Columbia University Benelli, Benelli Francesco
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107699434
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69943-4
• Dimensioni: 178 mm x 255 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro; History, HISTORY / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, CE period up to c 1500, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Painting & paintings, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval