THE TOP 30 PAINTINGS TO VISIT IN
FLORENCE'S GREATEST ART
MUSEUM
Consider author Hilt's mom and pop explanation of Madonna
and Child paintings by Duccio and Giotto:
"If you ever take an art history class or consult
any guidebook about Renaissance art, you would find that Giotto's Ognissanti
painting of the Madonna and Child is always celebrated as an important early
use of perspective and as a milestone in the evolution of Western art."
"It's typically treated as an `advance' over
Duccio's work because Giotto's figures appear to have physical mass and weight,
and the painting shows considerable skill in the use of perspective to create
spatial depth."
"But this is much the same as saying that the movie
version of Troy starring Brad Pitt is a great advance over Homer's telling of
the tale."
"After all, the movie actually shows us the battles
and the blood spurting, whereas the in the book we have to imagine them."
This from a PhD!
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