Eugenio Battisti - Giotto, Biographical and Critical Study
Eugenio Battisti - Giotto, Biographical and Critical Study
1960 | ASIN: B0007IUUX2 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 19 MB
1960 | ASIN: B0007IUUX2 | English | 148 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Giotto studies have reached a decisive turning point. A careful sifting of the available documents is now making it possible to establish a more satisfactory chronology of the artist's ceuvre. Recent restorations of the Santa Croce frescos in Florence have hyielded almost miraculous results. Cleared of 19th century repainting, the frescos in the Bardi Chapel have revealed an unexpected freedom of handling and coloristic verve; those in the Peruzzi Chapel have confirmed the unprecedented monumentality so much admired in the High Renaissance. Many panel paintings too, by Giotto or his school, have been restored to something very like their original state. Visitors to the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua will soon be able to appreciate unsuspected refinements of color in the frescos there.