Storytelling in Christian art from Giotto to Donatello / Jules Lubbock
2006, First Edition. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #396372
ISBN: 0300117272
Physical description; xiii, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-338) and index. 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. Subjects; 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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