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Genre/Form: | illustrations (layout features) Illustrated works Pictures Images Illustrations |
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Named Person: | Donatello; Duccio, di Buoninsegna; Giotto, di Bondone; Masaccio; Filippo Brunelleschi; Lorenzo Ghiberti; Giovanni Pisano |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jules Lubbock |
ISBN: | 0300120133 9780300120134 0300117272 9780300117271 |
OCLC Number: | 62152898 |
Description: | xiii, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Jules Lubbock. |
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Abstract:
Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. This book examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives. It explains how these narratives portrayed the major biblical events, such as: the Sacrifice of Isaac, the Annunciation, the Feast of Herod and others.
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- Bible -- Illustrations.
- Narrative art, Renaissance -- Italy.
- Art, Early Renaissance -- Italy.
- Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Medieval, 500-1500.
- Bible -- Illustrations
- Art narratif de la Renaissance -- Italie.
- Art de la Renaissance -- Première Renaissance -- Italie.
- Art chrétien -- Italie -- 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Bible.
- Art, Early Renaissance.
- Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval.
- Narrative art, Renaissance.
- Italy.
- Donatello -- 1386-1466
- Duccio -- di Buoninsegna -- 1255-1319 -- Maestà
- Giotto -- di Bondone -- 1266-1337
- Masaccio -- 1401-1428
- Brunelleschi, Filippo -- 1377-1446
- Ghiberti, Lorenzo -- 1378-1455
- Pisano, Giovanni -- 1246-1315
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- Erzählung
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