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Very
beautiful the opinions trough time about Giotto (Villani, Dante, Boccaccio...)
that must be deemed among the artists the most modern of the ancient
art. And here it is that in the new rooms for temporary expositions
of the gallery at the Academy they host till September 30th, in Florence,
the wide exhibition ever realized about the Giotto's works, and further
an opportunity to know the early studies of the best experts over the
entire Giotto's work and his shop work, beginning from Luciano Bellosi,
Giorgio Bonsanti and Miklos Boskovits. A survey into the work of Giotto,
supreme innovator of the western painting, the top and starting and
arriving point together, falling seven hundred years later after his
art activity at Rome at the Bonifacio VIII' Jubilee in 1300. A renovative
record of Giotto that first put man at the centre of his work, acknowledged
already by his behaviours, till Vasari that in the sixties of the sixteen
century reminds curious episodes, as that of the fly painted on a wood
in the workshop of Cimabue, mistaken for real. To understand who was
Giotto is good to know that he was a painter, an architect, a sculptor
and ante litteram entrepreneur, director of building yards, and elected
in 1334 by the municipality of Florence "magistrum et gubernatorem"
not only for the works of the Cathedral but also of other public works
as the walls. Sponsored by several bodies and by the Superintendence
of Florence, coordinated by Angelo Tartuferi along with a committee
of experts, the review shows thirty-six works among paintings, sculptures
and drawings. Giotto, son of the blacksmith Bondone di Angiolino, born
at Colle di Vespignano near Vicchio di Mugello, round 1267, was educated
in the Florentine workshop of Cimabue. Fictionalised the news that tells
Ghiberti about a very young Giotto shepherd spotted by Cimabue, while
he draws sheep, while there is the real registration of the young in
the powerful Guild of the Wool, after the family moved to Florence at
the clique of Santa Maria Novella. It must be underlined that the first
important experiences Giotto carried out, in the last ten-year period
of the thirteen-century, at Assisi, invited to paint the High Basilica
by the Franciscans.
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