Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists n
Early Italian Painting
โ Scribed by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Anna Jameson
- Publisher
- Parkstone Press International
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- English
- Leaves
- 200
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- Mega Square Collection
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โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: Something about Pictures and Painters
Revival of Art in Siena โ Fundamental Difference between Sienese and Florentine Art
Early Christianity and Art
Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters
Guido da Siena 13th Century
Giovanni Cimabue 1240-1302
Cimabue and the Rucellai Madonna
Contemporaries of Cimabue โ Gradual Rise of the Art of Florence
Duccio di Buoninsegna c. 1255-c. 1318
Ugolino di Nerio 1280(?)-1349
Segna di Bonaventura Active c. 1298-1331
Giotto di Bondone 1267-1337
Pietro Cavallini 1259-c. 1330
The Campo Santo
Andrea Orcagna c. 1308-1368
Taddeo Gaddi c. 1300-1366
Simone Martini, also called Simone Memmi c. 1284-1344
Conclusion
Index
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