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The Cambridge Companion to Giotto

The Cambridge Companion to Giotto

The Cambridge Companion to Giotto

Anne Derbes, Hood College, Maryland
Mark Sandona, Hood College, Maryland
December 2007
Paperback
9780521779845
$51.00
USD
Paperback

    The Cambridge Companion to Giotto serves as an introduction to one of the most important masters of early Italian art. Providing an overview of his life and career, this 2003 volume offers essays by leading authorities on the critical reception of the artist, an analysis of workshop practices of the period, the complexities of religious and secular patronage, Giotto's innovations in painting and architecture, and close readings of his most celebrated work, the frescoes of the Arena Chapel in Padua. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy, The Cambridge Companion to Giotto also provides a chronology of the artist's life and a select but comprehensive bibliography.

    • Includes latest scholarship specially commissioned for volume
    • Accessible to students and of interest to scholars
    • Inexpensive compared to other recent books on Giotto

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    'This introduction to one of the most important masters of early Italian art provides an overview of Giotto's life and career and essays by leading authorities on topics including critics, workshop practices, and patronage.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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    Product details

    December 2007
    Paperback
    9780521779845
    378 pages
    229 × 152 × 20 mm
    0.5kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Giotto past and present: an introduction Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona
    • 2. In search of an artist Hayden B .J. Maginnis
    • 3. Giotto and the St. Francis cycle at Assisi Bruno Zanardi
    • 4. Giotto's figures William Tronzo
    • 5. Giotto and architecture Gary M. Radke
    • 6. Giotto and art for the friars: resolutions spiritual and artistic Joanna Cannon
    • 7. Giotto and the figure of St. Francis William R. Cook
    • 8. The Ognissanti Madonna and the Humiliati order in Florence Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell
    • 9. Giotto and his lay patrons Benjamin G. Kohl
    • 10. Reading the Arena Chapel Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona
    • 11. The legend of Giotto's wit and the Arena Chapel Andrew Ladis.
      Editors
    • Anne Derbes , Hood College, Maryland

      Anne Derbes is the author of Picturing the Passion Late Medieval Italy: Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant. She has published on medieval art in journals such as The Art Bulletin, Speculum and Gesta.

    • Mark Sandona , Hood College, Maryland

      Mark Sandona is a specialist in comparative literature and whose research concerns the iconography of moral abstraction in the Renaissance. He has collaborated with Anne Derbes on several publications, most recently an essay on Crusader manuscript painting.