Giotto the painter : : life : with a collection of the documents and texts up to vasari and an appendix of sources on the arena chapel /

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].

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 t...

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Superior document:Giotto the Painter
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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)
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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.

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