{"product_id":"the-architecture-in-giottos-paintings-francesco-benelli-9781107699434","title":"The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings","description":"This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the first artist since antiquity to feature highly-detailed architecture in a primary role in his paintings. Francesco Benelli demonstrates how architecture was used to create pictorial space, one of Giotto's key inventions. He argues that Giotto's innovation was driven by a new attention to classical sources, including low reliefs, mosaics, mural paintings, coins, and Roman ruins. The book shows how Giotto's images of fictive buildings, as well as portraits of well-known monuments, both ancient and contemporary, play an important role in the overall narrative, iconography, and meaning of his works. The conventions established by Giotto remained at the heart of early modern Italian painting until the sixteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesco Benelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107699436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107699434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Francesco Benelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896537604351,"sku":"9781107699434","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb0d7c57-1eaa-4ba2-ae08-ffb61339eab2.jpg?v=1721371670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-architecture-in-giottos-paintings-francesco-benelli-9781107699434","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}