Author : Laurie Schneider
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Giotto in Perspective by : Laurie Schneider
Download or read book Giotto in Perspective written by Laurie Schneider and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1974 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giotto is hailed by many art critics as the originator of modern art. In "Giotto in Perspective", editor Laurie Schneider assembles the words of Giotto's contemporaries and the opinions of later critics to establish Giotto's reputation as the painter who transformed Italian art from the Byzantine style to a more naturalistic modern style -- a revolution whose has not died out six centuries later. Noted art historians and critics discuss Giotto's development and technique -- his seminal experimentation with perspective and gravity and the emotion and drama he created in the Paduan frescoes and the Bardi and Peruzzi chapels in Santa Croce, his major surviving works. Illustrated with over 50 reproductions of Giotto's most famous works, "Giotto in Perspective" offers the best insights available on the life and works of one of the world's most influential artists. -- From publisher's description.