Word: giotto
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Michelangelo, Murillo, Tintoretto, Greuze, Utrillo, Renoir, Fragonard, Matisse, And the Brueghels, pére et fils, Monet, Manet, Turner, Giotto, Dufy, Degas, Titian, Watteau, From Da Vinci to The Greek Each one had his own technique. Artzy's trademark is his flair For the isolated hair...
Illuminations and cathedral bas-reliefs accompany the first two essays, "The Spirit of the Middle Ages" and "Medieval Life"; the third is illustrated by early Renaissance masterpieces of Giotto and Botticelli. Later comes "The Age of Exploration" with its hopeful, half-empty maps, Vasco da Gama in cap & gown, and a grinning mask which Montezuma presented to Cortes. The section on "The Protestant Reformation" includes a caricature doodled by a seminarian of his instructor, one John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring...
John Donne, the 17th Century cleric who wrote these words, was a great enough poet to rise to the loftiest challenge any Christian artist can face: the translation of faith into the medium of art. Before Donne's day, such painters as Giotto, Raphael, Bellini and Leonardo met the same challenge on the same high plane. Bach and Handel, a little later, met it with their music...
...keep him comfortable. Divorced, he lives alone in a railroad apartment in Brooklyn, the furniture painted with gay floral patterns by himself. On the living-room mantel is a female statuette from a drugstore win dow. The studio walls are covered with working sketches and reproductions of Giotto-"my greatest teacher...
...youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...