Giotto the painter : : life : with a collection of the documents and texts up to vasari and an appendix of sources on the arena chapel / / Michael Viktor Schwarz, [and three others].

• Superior document: Giotto the Painter
• VerfasserIn: Schwarz, Michael Viktor,
• Place / Publishing House: Germany : : Böhlau Verlag,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Giotto the Painter
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages)

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. Biographische Informationen Pia Theis arbeitet für Kunst- und Kultureinrichtungen in Deutschland und Österreich. Sie ist Autorin eines Standardwerks zur Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft und zu Giottos Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Giotto's Life and Work in Ghiberti and Vasari -- The Infancy Acc ording to Ghiberti -- Tribute, Catalogue of Works I -- Catalogue of Works II -- Giotto as a Sculptor, Final Tribute -- Vasari's Elaborations: Infancy -- Vasaris Elaborations: Curriculum Operum -- Vasari's Elaborations: Courtier and Humanist -- Giotto of Memory and Giotto of the Past -- Giotto's Life from the Primary Sources -- The Forge: Origin, Youth, Background -- The First Great Tasks -- Businessman and Artist -- Growing Reputation in Florence -- Living Circumstances, Children -- Court Painter in Naples -- The Last Years, New Tasks, Popularity -- Burial, Estate -- The Painter as Singer: The Song Ag ainst Poverty -- Giotto in the Decameron -- Apparatus -- State of Research -- Outline, Hints, Problems -- Computus: Money and Time -- Edition Principles -- 1. Primary Sources (Remnants) -- 1.1.Notarial Records -- 1.2 Documents from Naples -- 1.3 Directories -- 1.4 Testaments, Donations, Memoria -- 1.5 Appointments -- 1.6 Ego Documents -- 1.7. Questionable Sources -- 2. Narrative Sources (Tradition) -- 2.1 Historiography (Florence) -- 2.2 Historiography (other places) -- 2.3 Text Books, Treatises -- 2.4 Poetry -- 2.5 Dante, his Commentators and Biographers -- 2.6 Letters -- 2.7 Topography -- 2.8 Inscriptions -- 2.9 … and one Speech -- Appendix -- Sources on the Arena Chapel -- Photo Credits.