Giotto in a sentence

Yet at the height of the terror campaign, this ‘cultured’ man masterminded an art gallery bombing in Florence that deliberately destroyed priceless paintings by Rubens and Giotto.

As of this writing, more than 70 readers have sent us letters on the topic, and not a single one has bid good riddance to Trader Giotto or Trader Jose.

More recently, he turned to old masters paintings for his source material, borrowing details from works at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt for one series and Giotto’s Arena Chapel frescoes for another.

Flanked by the Baptistry and Giotto’s Campanile, the Duomo is the crown jewel in what is arguably the finest public composition of Gothic/Renaissance architecture in the world.

Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Magritte, Joan Eardley and William Crozier are all cited as significant in the formation of his visual lexicon but jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and street art are also importan.

The high court has ruled that a £10m painting by the 14th-century Florentine master Giotto was removed from unlawfully, rendering it “effectively unsellable” according to one expert.

An illustration by the artist Domenico Lenzi, the City Scene of 1340 from the Il Biadaiolo codex, shows just how much the Florentine artists were influenced by Giotto.

From Giotto on, the treatment of composition by the best painters also became much more free and innovative.

Giotto showed that this model was broadly correct, though with modifications.

His pupil, Giotto, took these innovations to a higher level which in turn set the foundations for the western painting tradition.

In painting Cimabue thought he held the field but now it's Giotto has the cry, so that the other's fame is dimmed.

Nevertheless, Masaccio's concern to suggest three-dimensionality through volumetric figures and foreshortened forms (a revival of Giotto's approach, rather than a continuation of contemporary trends) is already apparent.

Northern European art has arguably never quite caught up to Italy in terms of prestige, and Vasari's placing of Giotto as the founding father of "modern" painting has largely been retained.

Page 40. It was rebuilt in 1345. citation Giorgio Vasari recorded the traditional view of his day that attributed its design to Taddeo Gaddi — besides Giotto one of the few artistic names of the trecento still recalled two hundred years later.

Sophia and the windows at Chartres, Mexican sculpture, a Persian bowl, Chinese carpets, Giotto's frescoes at Padua, and the masterpieces of Poussin, Piero della Francesca, and Cezanne?

Structure and composition The nucleus of Halley's Comet, imaged by the Giotto probe in 1986.

Such an incident is alluded to in a scene in the late 13th-century fresco cycle, attributed to Giotto, in the upper basilica at Assisi (see accompanying illustration).

The nearby Campanile (partly designed by Giotto ) and the Baptistery buildings are also highlights.

The pigment was mixed with a binding medium like egg to form a tempera and applied over dry plaster (such as Giotto di Bondone 's frescos in the Cappella degli Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua ).

Unlike Giotto, however, Masaccio uses linear and atmospheric perspective, directional light, and chiaroscuro, which is the representation of form through light and color without outlines.