Giotto~Harry Quilter~1881~Giotto Di Bondone~The Great Artists~First Edition~145 Years Old~Illustrated~Rare Book~Good Condition~Free Shipping

Giotto~Harry Quilter~1881~Giotto Di Bondone~The Great Artists~First Edition~Rare Book~Illustrated~Good Condition~Free Shipping.

This rare book is 145 years old! There is a missing outer spine. 126 pages. A few loose pages at the first part of the book. One inscription. One tag on inside front cover. Loose front cover. See photos for condition.

“Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267[a] – January 8, 1337),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto,[b] was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period.[7] Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence".[8] Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years".

Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305. The fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.[10]
The fact that Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the Commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral are among the few certainties about his life. Almost every other aspect of it is subject to controversy: his birth date, his birthplace, his appearance, his apprenticeship, the order in which he created his works, whether he painted the famous frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, and his burial place.

Harry Quilter (24 January 1851 in London – 10 July 1907 in London), was an English art critic, writer and artist.
From 1876 to 1887 Quilter was an art critic and journalist, writing chiefly for The Spectator. In 1880–81 he was also for a time art critic for The Times in succession to Tom Taylor.” - From Wikipedia

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