Giotto the Painter. Volume 1: Life

Das dreibändige Werk zu Giotto jetzt auf Englisch!

Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of life and work. The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are on the one hand biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist.

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Pia Theis arbeitet für Kunst- und Kultureinrichtungen in Deutschland und Österreich. Sie ist Autorin eines Standardwerks zur Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft und zu Giottos Leben, Werk und Wirkungsgeschichte.

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Kunsthistorikerinnen, Kulturwissenschaftler, Historikerinnen