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The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)

The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings By Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)

The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings by Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)


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This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture. Benelli shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings and well-known monuments play an important role in the narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. Conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.

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The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings by Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)

This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the first artist since antiquity to feature highly-detailed architecture in a primary role in his paintings. Francesco Benelli demonstrates how architecture was used to create pictorial space, one of Giotto's key inventions. He argues that Giotto's innovation was driven by a new attention to classical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics, mural paintings, coins, and Roman ruins. The book shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, both ancient and contemporary, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.

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About Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)

Francesco Benelli is Associate Professor of Renaissance Architecture in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He was the recipient of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and a Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. He has published widely on several aspects of Renaissance architecture, as well as on issues of building material and technique and the history of design and construction.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The cycle of the Legend of San Francis in the upper church of Assisi; 2. The Enrico Scrovegni chapel in Padua; 3. The Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 4. The lower church of Assisi; 5. Giotto's influence in the lower church of Assisi and the church of Santa Croce in Florence; 6. Excursus; Conclusion.

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NLS9781107699434
9781107699434
1107699436
The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings by Francesco Benelli (Columbia University, New York)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2014-07-14
296
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