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Lubbock, Jules

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Photograph Credits

Jules Lubbock

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

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Author

Jules Lubbock

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20550

Photograph Credits

Musée du Louvre/Photo courtesy RMN, 1; John White, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250–1400, Yale University Press, 4–5; Antonio Quattrone; the author 6–17, 19–38, 101–4, 111, 123–6; 38, 44, 51a and b, 53–9, 61–70a, 71–2, 75–7, 79a–92, 96–7, 103, 105–9, 113–17, 134–44; National Gallery, London, 70a, 70b; Nicolò Battaglini, 93, 95; Alinari, 94, 98, 100, 119, 122, 147–8, 150–65; Scala, 127–33. For permission to take photographs my thanks to the Commune di Padova, Settore Musei e Biblioteche; Opera della Metropolitana di Siena; Opera della Primaziale Pisana and the Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e storico per le province di Firenze, Pistoia e Prato.

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BOOKStorytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello

Jules Lubbock

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00216

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20531

Recounting the biblical stories through visual images was the most prestigious form of commission for a Renaissance artist. In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by prominent artists, including Giovanni Pisano, Giotto, Ghiberti, Donatello, and Masaccio. The author explains how artists portrayed biblical events so as to be easily recognizable and, at the same time, to captivate the viewer long enough to encourage the search for deeper meanings.

Lubbock shows that the Church favored the production of images that lent themselves to being read and interpreted in this way, and he demonstrates how the pleasurable activity of deciphering these meanings can work in practice. The book is richly illustrated, with many photographs specially taken to show how the paintings and relief sculptures appear in the settings for which they were originally designed.

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Author

Jules Lubbock

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date September 2006 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300117271

EISBN 9780300246018

Illustrations 169

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