Word: giottos
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...arguments for and against a comicbook adaptation of this famously interior novel feel like two sides of the same coin. Heuet has translated all the rote action and, more important, all the visual aspects of the book into pictures. In some cases this comes in handy, as when Giotto's "Virtues and Vices" are invoked, or a bunch of asparagi are referred to with extreme detail. This version of "Remembrance," has been distilled down to its essence, concentrating its themes and aesthetic ambitions. And yet, one of those themes, the ability of art, and particularly literature, to evoke all things...
...famous cities of Florence and Siena, as well as in such gems as Arezzo and Lucca. Retirees won't be playing much golf, but they may well sign up for classes to learn how to cook Italian-style, start a wine collection or try to paint like Giotto...
...Giotto painted his Bible stories and tales of saints across the cathedral walls of Italy. Yet we see his brilliance today in a bare handful of surviving documented works. The famous 28 scenes of St. Francis' life adorning the Upper Church in Assisi--to most of us the embodiment of his work--are of hotly disputed authorship. Yet many experts still believe no other known hand could have created the economical drama, narrative power and intense depiction of human emotion that mark the best of them...
...Giotto's genius is definitively preserved in Padua in a small chapel completely decorated in powerful renditions of the life of the Virgin Mary and the Passion of Christ. In each panel a few simple figures anchored in the foreground vividly act out the joy, grief, fear and pity of the Christian story. Giotto's gift lay in transforming the viewer into a participant: people felt as if they could touch holy figures Ruskin once called "Mama, Papa and the Baby...
...breaking through the stilted conventions of medieval art, bringing his neighbors into direct communion with the sacred, Giotto single-handedly elevated painting from the service of symbolism to the mirror of mankind...