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GIOTTO di Bondone
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1267-1337
Italian painter and designer. In his own time and place he had an unrivalled reputation as the best painter and as an innovator, superior to all his predecessors, and he became the first post-Classical artist whose fame extended beyond his lifetime and native city. This was partly the consequence of the rich literary culture of two of the cities where he worked, Padua and Florence. Writing on art in Florence was pioneered by gifted authors and, although not quite art criticism, it involved the comparison of local artists in terms of quality. The most famous single appreciation is found in Dante's verses (Purgatory x) of 1315 or earlier. Exemplifying the transience of fame, first with poets and manuscript illuminators, Dante then remarked that the fame of Cimabue, who had supposed himself to be the leader in painting, had now been displaced by Giotto. Ironically, this text was one factor that forestalled the similar eclipse of Giotto's fame, which was clearly implied by the poet.
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Painting ID:: 6900
The Chapel viewed towards the entrance sdg
1303-06
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
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Painting ID:: 6901
Vault fgt
1303-06
Fresco
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
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Painting ID:: 6902
View of the Peruzzi and Bardi Chapels fh
Santa Croce, Florence
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Painting ID:: 6903
Navicella xh
1305-13
Oil on canvas, 740 x 990 cm
Fabbrica di San Pietro, Rome
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Painting ID:: 6904
Navicella ssh
1305-13
Pen on paper, 274 x 388 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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GIOTTO di Bondone
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1267-1337
Italian painter and designer. In his own time and place he had an unrivalled reputation as the best painter and as an innovator, superior to all his predecessors, and he became the first post-Classical artist whose fame extended beyond his lifetime and native city. This was partly the consequence of the rich literary culture of two of the cities where he worked, Padua and Florence. Writing on art in Florence was pioneered by gifted authors and, although not quite art criticism, it involved the comparison of local artists in terms of quality. The most famous single appreciation is found in Dante's verses (Purgatory x) of 1315 or earlier. Exemplifying the transience of fame, first with poets and manuscript illuminators, Dante then remarked that the fame of Cimabue, who had supposed himself to be the leader in painting, had now been displaced by Giotto. Ironically, this text was one factor that forestalled the similar eclipse of Giotto's fame, which was clearly implied by the poet.
. Related Artists to GIOTTO di Bondone: | POST, Pieter Jansz | Sir William Orpen | Frans van Leemputten | Alfred Rethel | Joseph Barney |
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