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Storytelling in Christian art from Giotto to Donatello / Jules Lubbock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lubbock, Jules, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Early Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Early Renaissance.
- Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Narrative art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Narrative art, Renaissance.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.
- Italy.
- Bible--Illustrations.
- Bible.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages) : 169 illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- [Illustrated edition]
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- "Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by prominent artists, including Giovanni Pisano, Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, and Masaccio. The author explains how artists portrayed biblical events so as to be easily recognizable and, at the same time, to captivate the viewer long enough to encourage the search for deeper meanings. Lubbock shows that the Church favored the production of images that lent themselves to being read and interpreted in this way, and he demonstrates how the pleasurable activity of deciphering these meanings can work in practice. The book is richly illustrated, with many photographs specially taken to show how the paintings and relief sculptures appear in the settings for which they were originally designed"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- pt. I. 1298-1311. Divine and earthly justice in Duccio's Maestà
- Giotto : Scrovegni's Temple
- Giovanni Pisano's Pistoia pulpit
- The correct law : Giovanni Pisano's Pisa pulpit
- pt. II. 1401-1465. The second baptistery doors : Ghiberti and Brunelleschi
- Donatello's head of St. John and the invention of geometric perspective
- Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel frescoes
- Ghiberti's Gates of paradise
- Donatello's pulpits in San Lorenzo
- Conclusion : visible speech
- Appendix : some factors affecting the perception of space between forms.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on November 16, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300246018
- 0300246013
- OCLC:
- 1220943457
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