The "Peruzzi Altarpiece", Giotto 6--St. Francis of Assisi
This is a set of 6 items—the "Peruzzi Altarpiece" and the five individual panels. These images have a creative commons license, which you may freely use by linking to their respective pages. Please respect the photographer and his work.
Giotto (1266/1276-1337) is generally credited with being the first painter of the Italian Renaissance. He rejected the emotionless faces and the artificial elongated bodies depicted in Byzantine art. Into his figures he breathed distinct facial features and a sense of the natural body beneath their garments. The depictions are more human, more natural.
Giotto is best known for the Arena frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, which show the life of Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary.
The Peruzzi Altarpiece—The descriptive information at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh credits Giotto “and assistants” with this altarpiece, possibly for the Peruzzi family chapel in the church of S. Croce, Florence, Italy. Consisting of 5 panels (the total polyptych over 8 feet in length), the work is done in tempera and gold leaf and dates from about 700 years ago—circa 1310-1315. From left to right the figures are St. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, Christ, St. John the Baptist, and St Francis of Assisi. It is one of the few complete altarpieces known by the Giotto workshop. It was a gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1960).
More information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto
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The "Peruzzi Altarpiece", Giotto 6--St. Francis of Assisi
This is a set of 6 items—the "Peruzzi Altarpiece" and the five individual panels. These images have a creative commons license, which you may freely use by linking to their respective pages. Please respect the photographer and his work.
Giotto (1266/1276-1337) is generally credited with being the first painter of the Italian Renaissance. He rejected the emotionless faces and the artificial elongated bodies depicted in Byzantine art. Into his figures he breathed distinct facial features and a sense of the natural body beneath their garments. The depictions are more human, more natural.
Giotto is best known for the Arena frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, which show the life of Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary.
The Peruzzi Altarpiece—The descriptive information at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh credits Giotto “and assistants” with this altarpiece, possibly for the Peruzzi family chapel in the church of S. Croce, Florence, Italy. Consisting of 5 panels (the total polyptych over 8 feet in length), the work is done in tempera and gold leaf and dates from about 700 years ago—circa 1310-1315. From left to right the figures are St. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, Christ, St. John the Baptist, and St Francis of Assisi. It is one of the few complete altarpieces known by the Giotto workshop. It was a gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1960).
More information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.