Giotto 1266?-1337

Giotto by Giotto ( Book )
240 editions published between 1880 and 2009 in 13 languages and held by 1,415 libraries worldwide
Shows some of the works of Giotto.

The glorious impossible by Madeleine L'Engle ( Book )
2 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 1,075 libraries worldwide
Describes the life of Jesus Christ and presents twenty-four paintings showing scenes from the life of Christ by the fourteenth-century Italian artist Giotto.

The complete paintings of Giotto by Giotto ( Book )
13 editions published between 1966 and 1969 in English and held by 939 libraries worldwide

Giotto, the Arena Chapel frescoes by Giotto ( Book )
52 editions published between 1937 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 794 libraries worldwide
The Arena Chapel is a small plain brick building in Padua whose interior is entirely covered with frescoes by Giotto, painted shortly after 1300 and still miraculously intact. Thirty-six large panels tell the stories of Joachim and Anna (the Virgin's parents), the Virgin Mary, and the life of Jesus from birth to resurrection; and on the entrance wall opposite the altar is a Last Judgment.

Giotto by Luciano Bellosi ( Book )
17 editions published between 1981 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 640 libraries worldwide
Riverside Book Co. [publisher] has done libraries a service by publishing a series of beautiful paperbacks devoted to artists of the Italian Renaissance. Translated from the work of Italian scholars, the series is available in both English and Spanish. Each volume features approximately 100 high-quality color reproductions, including many close details of selected works. Particularly useful are the dates, dimensions, and present locations of all pieces, listed both in captions and in a separate index. Texts follow a general pattern of introductory biographical information and historical context, followed by a brief stylistic analysis of major works presented in chronological order and concluding with an evaluation of each artist's lasting influence.

All the paintings of Giotto by Giotto ( Book )
9 editions published between 1963 and 1969 in English and held by 620 libraries worldwide

The Cambridge companion to Giotto ( Book )
18 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and held by 554 libraries worldwide

Giotto: the Peruzzi Chapel by Leonetto Tintori ( Book )
7 editions published in 1965 in English and held by 521 libraries worldwide
"The murals in the Peruzzi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence comprise Giotto's last surviving production ... Until recently, Giotto's celebrated scheme was concealed by the dense accumulation of five centuries of repaint. The text and photographs ... describe the history of the chapel, the circumstances of the commission, and how the murals were originally carried out. This is followed by a section devoted to the story of the recent cleaning by Leonetto Tintori"--Cover.

Italian frescoes by Steffi Roettgen ( Book )
in English and held by 467 libraries worldwide

Italian frescoes, the age of Giotto, 1280-1400 by Joachim Poeschke ( Book )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and German and held by 351 libraries worldwide
"Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are the literary figures we associate with the transitional era between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Italy. In art history, this time of artistic fertility is represented above all by the name Giotto, the great Florentine artist around whose work revolved the innovations in the visual arts in Italy, during the trecento, which shaped the course of Western art for centuries to follow. Italian cities flourished especially in the early decades of the century, as ambitious architectural projects were undertaken that demanded equally challenging decorative programs. Communal palaces and princely residences, new cathedrals and the spacious churches of the mendicant orders, all provided new tasks for painting, and especially for mural painting." "Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto, 1280-1400 illustrates in detail the inspired responses to this challenge by Giotto, his contemporaries, and his successors. They undertook a continuous artistic exploration of new ground - in terms of figurative and narrative style as well as in the shaping of pictorial space and use of color. After an introductory overview, the volume begins with an in-depth presentation of the frescoes at San Francesco in Assisi, which became, in the decades around 1300, the great school of Italian painting, where Giotto, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, among others, created a new kind of painted mural and a new style of pictorial narrative. Expansive treatment is given as well to Giotto's masterful Arena Chapel in Padua, a touchstone of European art for writers and artists from Dante to Marcel Proust and from Ghiberti to Henri Matisse. Among the many other highlights of the volume are the chapels painted by Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Maso di Banco, Giovanni da Milano, and Agnolo Gaddi in the church of Santa Croce, Florence; Ambrogio Lorenzetti's monumental allegories of good and bad government in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena; Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death and Last Judgment in Pisa's Camposanto; and, toward the end of the century, Altichiero's frescoes for the Saint George Chapel in Padua."--BOOK JACKET.