How To Use Giotto In A Sentence
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Giotto's frescos run in four bands along facing walls of the chapel, depicting (from top to bottom) scenes from the life of Mary, scenes from the life of Christ, and allegorizations of virtues and vices.
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Giotto's place in the history of Western art is more complex than the received tradition allows.
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It is not so notable as exhibiting the mind of Giotto, which is perhaps more fully seen in subjects representing varied emotion, as in the simplicity and repose which were peculiar to the compositions of the early fourteenth century.
Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel
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In Mosan art she is sometimes identified by a bridle (Tervarent, 1964), but in spite of Theodulf's poem, this is the rarest of her attributes, until it is revived by Giotto early in the fourteenth century and popularized by Raphael in the sixteenth.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Giotto, Cimabue, de Fabriano, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Botticelli, Filipo Lippi, da Vinci, Raphael.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Theirs was no retrograde revival of past styles, but a reworking of Giotto and the Italian primitives through a modernist lens, specifically, the ironic classicism of Giorgio de Chirico.
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Giotto, with a pencil, by a single motion drew so perfect a circle that it was thought to be a miracle, and this gave rise to a proverb still much used in Italy: -- _Piu tondo che l'O di Giotto_, or,
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
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This, and the remaining frescoes, are not attributed to Giotto.
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Nobody would have understood me if I had called Giotto, 'Ambrose Bondone;' or Tintoret, Robusti; or even Raphael,
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
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Giotto was launched in July 1985 and almost 70 percent of its original instruments remained intact.
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trecento", among whom we should opine that the influence of Orcagna in his frescoes in the Strozzi Chapel of S.M. Novella, was greater even than that of Giotto.
Fra Angelico
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Theirs was no retrograde revival of past styles, but a reworking of Giotto and the Italian primitives through a modernist lens, specifically, the ironic classicism of Giorgio de Chirico.
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To the right of the entrance into the cloisters is a building containing the refectory, with a Last Supper, by Giotto, and above it a Crucifixion and Tree of Jesse.
The South of France—East Half
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With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
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Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance.
Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
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Giotto, the man described as the forefather of the Renaissance movement.
The Guardian World News
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Patty's interest in Giotto and his kind was not very keen, and she sauntered off on a tour of inspection.
Just Patty
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The interior of the church -- often called Giotto's Chapel -- is somewhat cold and bare at first sight; but the beauty of the paintings, which are in a very fair state of preservation, considering their age, speedily dispels this idea.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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In the Arena chapel's image of Enrico presenting a model of his chapel to the Virgin Mary, Giotto provides us with one of the first true portrait likenesses of a patron in an essentially traditional, supplicant, role.
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He, having had this son, to whom he gave the name Giotto, reared him conformably to his condition; and when he had come to the age of ten, he showed in all his actions, although childish still, a vivacity and readiness of intelligence much out of the ordinary, which rendered him dear not only to his father but to all those also who knew him, both in the village and beyond.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi
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He called Giotto to Rome and gave him constant occupation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Previous to Giotto, the cardinal virtues had been depicted only rarely in Italian art, although Roman - esque mosaic pavements in Pavia and Cremona show scenes of the psychomachia involving other sets of virtues.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
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Alberti mentions only one post-classical work of art - Giotto's Navicella mosaic - but he cites many classical literary sources describing vanished works.
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To-day, if you walk through Florence, the City of Flowers, you will still see its fairest flower of all, the tall white campanile or bell-tower, 'Giotto's tower' as it is called.
Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
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French trot, everie step being ready to hoise him out of his saddle, hearing Giottos discreete answers to every ydle question he made (for indeede he was a very elegant speaker) began to peruse and surveigh him, even from the foote to the head, as we use to say.
The Decameron
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The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua.
Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
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In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
