Word: giotto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lecture which Professor Diehl is to give next Thursday, entitled "Giotto and Byzantine Art," is the last of the series which he is giving at Harvard...
...Giotto's Mature Painting," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...Giotto's early painting," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...second is wonder, which sets men to question their own delight and to scrutinize that fabled face as a thing holy and remote. These tendencies follow no order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...
...Golden Sky (Feitelson) shows the influence of Giotto. Nude figures dream in a coppice, while the sun, drowning in the gulfs of the West, floods them with moted yellow light, tarnishing the trees with gold, melting to rose the ivory of their bodies...