Word: giotto
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Dates: during 1893-1893
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...Giotto, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance, was the beginner of dramatic art. The great strength of his art was his naive suppression of all unnecessary detail and his extreme simplicity of selection. His greatest work is the decoration of the Franciscan Church of Assizi, in Florence...
...Giotto seems to have been alone in his work, for no one could compare with him for years. For a hundred years after his time there was not a work which showed any appreciation by the the artists of the beauties of the human form. All their figures they clothed in heavy draperies; and even Fra Angelico, the best of them, seemed to consider the nude below his dignity...
Those who followed Giotto, abandoned his simplicity of style and filled their paintings with unnecessary detail, but there came one among them who returned to the early principles; this man was Fra Angelico. Though Giotto and Fra Angelico succeeded in their style, still naive "leaving out" and scientific elimination must be united with their genius, to constitute real decorative...
...several short courses of lectures connected with the Fine Arts to be given during the current academic year by professional artists or critics. Four of these courses have already been arranged. The first will be given in December by Mr. Edwin Howland Blashfield, on the Italian Renaissance from Giotto to Tintoretto; the second in early January by Mr. Thomas Hastings, or some practical subjects in Architecture; the third later in January by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith, on Illustrative Art, Out-door sketching, Processes in black and white, Cor position, the Picturesque, and Certain art fads; and the fourth...