Giotto the painter. : works / / Volume 2 : / Michael Viktor Schwarz.

• 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 (595 pages)

The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Speech which Speaks to the Eye: The Arena Chapel -- Annunciation Day in Padua -- Enrico Scrovegni's Foundation -- Three Portraits -- The Last Judgement -- The Triumphal Arch -- The Lives of Mary and Jesus -- Judas -- The Palace Chapel -- Giotto's Christmas -- The Inverted Passe-Partout and the Objects / The Rejection of Joachim -- Dynamics of Pictorial Invention -- The Painter Shows Houses, Courtyards, and Halls -- Narration through Figures and Movements -- Emotional Energy -- Christ's Gazes -- Eloquent Hands -- The Paduan Bottega: Picture Fields -- The Paduan Bottega: The Framing System -- Songs and Images: The Allegories -- Giotto in Padua -- Giotto avant Giotto: Works before and around 1300 -- The Isaac Pictures in the Upper Church of Assisi -- Roman Painting in the Last Decade of the Thirteenth Century -- The Isaac Master Ensemble -- The Navicella: Vestiges -- The Navicella: Stefaneschi's Donation -- The Navicella: Giotto's Narration -- How the Navicella Works Allegorically -- The Cross of Santa Maria Novella: Prerequisites -- The Cross of Santa Maria Novella: a new image for the Florentines -- The Madonna of San Giorgio alla Costa -- Summary: From Presence to Image -- Outlook: The Crosses in Rimini and Padua -- Assisi 1308 and other St. Francis-Problems -- Use and Conversion of the Double Church -- Palmerino di Guido and other Painters on Site -- Giottesque Painting in San Francesco: The Legend of St. Francis -- Giottesque Painting in Assisi: The Chapel of St. Nicholas -- Painting in Assisi: the Crossing and North Transept of the Lower Church -- The Mary Magdalene Chapel -- Soulful Looks -- On the Connection and Sequence of the Murals -- Giotto's St. Francis Panel and the Legend of St. Francis in Assisi -- An Image of St Francis for the Pisans.

Giotto Autonomous: The Bardi Chapel and the Works of the Second Decade -- Sanctitatis nova signa -- The St. Francis Chapel of the Bardi -- Giotto's St. Francis Cycle -- The Bardi Style -- Cairo in Florence -- Rome: the "Capella" in St. Peter's (1312/13) -- The Choir Chapel of the Badia -- El comune come era rubato (Florence, Bargello) -- Ognissanti: the Madonna -- Ave Virgo Virginum -- Ognissanti: The Cross -- Ognissanti: The (so-called) Death of the Virgin -- Giotto autonomous -- Giotto Pluralistic: The Peruzzi Chapel in Florence and the Late Works -- The Murals of the Capella Magna in Naples -- The Baroncelli Retable -- The Architectural Polyptychs: Giotto's Gothic -- The Stefaneschi Altarpiece: Dating and Placement -- The Stefaneschi Altarpiece: Peter and Paul and the Holiness of Rome -- The Stefaneschi-Altarpiece: Peter and Peter and the Curia at Avignon -- The Badia Altarpiece: Predella, Patronage, Dating -- The Badia Altarpiece: Strategy of Representation -- The Bologna Altarpiece -- The St. John's Chapel of the Peruzzi -- Two Lives in Six Pictures -- The Peruzzi Style -- Ephesus in Florence or a Window to the World -- Variety -- Giotto's Painting and the Visual Culture of His Time -- Florence before 1300 -- Giotto's Rome -- The Visual Medium Finds Itself -- The Portrait: A Roman Medium Renovated -- Dialectic of Success -- Giotto and the Sienese or the Triumph of the Real -- The Campanile: Survival under Construction -- The Building -- The Siena Parchment: Giotto's Gothic once again -- The Shepherd's Tower -- Photographic Credits.