Giotto di bondone biography italiano delight
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Part 4 of 6: Later Years Towards the end of Giotto's life we escape again from confused legend, and from the tantalizing record of works which have not survived for us to verify, into the region of authentic document and fact. It appears that Giotto had come under the notice of Duke Charles of Calabria, son of King Robert of Naples, during the visits of the duke to Florence which took place between and , in which year he died. Soon afterwards Giotto must have gone to King Robert's court at Naples, where he was enrolled as an honoured guest and member of the household by a royal decree dated the 20th of January Another document shows him to have been still at Naples two years later.
Tradition says much about the friendship of the king for the painter and the freedom of speech and jest allowed him; much also of the works he carried out at Naples in the Ca
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Hell According to Giotto
by Joanne Bartramin #italytravel, #padua, #padova, Italian Art, Italian art architecture, Padova, Padua
Hell, According to Giotto
Hell. The Merriam-Webster dictionary describes it as “a place or state of misery, torment, or wickedness’.
Many religions have the concept of judgement after death and a banishment (either permanent or temporary) to a horrible place of punishments for one’s sins and misdeeds. For the most part hell is seen as a place not of this earth, and most definitely not a pleasant destination. Just as medieval churches told uplifting bible stories in fresco form, so too did they put the fear of hell into vivid paintings.
There is nothing like horned demons and gruesome animals nibbling on flesh to make one fear the eternal damnation that awaits the sinful, greedy, or otherwise misbehaving person. These depictions of hell in medieval Italian art can be
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Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. – )
For other uses, see Giotto (disambiguation).
Giotto di Bondone (Italian:[ˈdʒɔttodibonˈdoːne]; c.&#;[a] – January 8, ),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto[b], was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late mittpunkt Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period.[7] Giotto's contemporary, the banker and historieberättare Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign mästare of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence".[8]Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years".[9]
Giotto's masterwork