Editorial: Princeton University Press
Número de páginas: 376 págs.
Fecha de edición: 14-11-2023
EAN: 9780691244266
ISBN: 978-0-691-24426-6
Precio (sin IVA): 73,55 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 76,49 €
The portraits not only intruded upon a sacred space, but also intervened in an artwork. The pressure exerted by the modern interlopers—their lives and experiences, implied by their portraits—threatened the formal closure that had served as a powerful symbolic form of the pact between God and humans. This book reconstructs this art historical drama from the point of view of the artists rather than the patrons. Following clues left by Vasari, the book assigns a leading role to the painter Giottino, or “little Giotto.” Little-known today but highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of painting that was later realized by Fra Angelico through his own innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait.