Giotto and His Works in Padua (ekphrasis)
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Giotto and His Works in Padua (ekphrasis) Details
Review Delightful. (Jackie Wullschlager Financial Times) Read more About the Author John Ruskin (1819–1900) was an English critic of art, architecture, and society, who sought change through his polemical prose. Best know for his five-volume treatise on art, Modern Painters—published volume by volume from 1843 to 1860 – Ruskin applied Romantic thought to art criticism, rather than relying solely on religious tradition. In doing so, he opened up possibilities surrounding the appreciation and understanding of art, through emotive descriptions, rather than illustration. Particularly intrigued by the painting of the Gothic Middle Ages, Ruskin felt that painters such as Giotto and Fra Angelico were the ideal subject for modern painters. Ruskin’s then novel insistence that art and architecture are the direct expression of the conditions in which they were made, continues to influence the study of the fields today. Read more
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