Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ethods are very perceptible in thefamous 28 episodes from the life of St. Francis painted ^ not merely a scene cut out, as it were, from a narrative. A realpicture differs from decorative painting as a statue from a bas-relief. Giottospowers of dramatic representation are very notable, his actors being some-times almost as few and as fuUy employed as in a play of Ae
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ethods are very perceptible in thefamous 28 episodes from the life of St. Francis painted ^ not merely a scene cut out, as it were, from a narrative. A realpicture differs from decorative painting as a statue from a bas-relief. Giottospowers of dramatic representation are very notable, his actors being some-times almost as few and as fuUy employed as in a play of Aeschylus. Heseldom introduces dummies and supernumeraries, such as annoy one so inmany later works of Italian art. One might perhaps ask whether suchdramatic characteristics, essential in the case of a single work of art, are notout of place in a series of architecturally decorative paintings—such as thosein the Upper Church at Assisi, or in the chapel of the Paduan Arena. Andthe same applies, perhaps, to mosaics. Certainly Giottos design for themosaic of the Navicella (in the portico of St. Peters at Rome) proves thathe did not realize the essentials—whatever they may be—of the grand stylein mosaic 12. Giottos CAMPANn<K
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