Word: giotto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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European art of the more or less distant past, be it Dante or Giotto, Proust or Mondrian, cannot be properly appreciated without a great deal of study and contemplation. Harvard undergraduates in general do not think the art important enough to be worth the effort and devote most of their time to economics and biology. The faculty do little to convince them they are wrong...
...jazz is that its original face has never been lost. The music is no older than the century, and many of its fathers are still alive and playing. Painting and classical music progress sequentially, discarding earlier styles and forms in pursuit of the new (nobody, for example, paints like Giotto today, or composes like Haydn), but jazz continues to flower cumulatively, taking on and transforming the new without ever abandoning the old. It is a fugue with a life of its own, endlessly recapitulating itself. If its vitality dims from time to time under the onslaught of fads or sheer...
...shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...
...ability to record both pageantry and piety infused with the spirit of the Middle Ages, Zeffirelli almost manages to stage a glorious passion-play. Instead, he drags his characters along like caricatures through a pantomime, sacrificing the magic of a legend to the flatness of a puppet show. Giotto was perhaps the greatest artist to illustrate the life of St. Francis in his frescos at Assisi. Zeffirelli has not been able to prove himself a worthy successor...
...Dutch artist, Allart van Everingden, Fahy's experts concluded that it was painted by Jacob van Ruisdael, one of the great landscapists of all time, thereby increasing its assessed value at least tenfold. The experts decided that a nativity "attributed to the Florentine school" had been painted by Giotto himself...