Giotto e Compagni

Giotto (c.1267-1337) is the foremost renovator of Western painting after classical Antiquity. The Tuscan artist was celebrated by his contemporaries, including Dante, and is universally considered one of the greatest artists of all times. The three Louvre altarpieces are the starting point of the exhibit: the large St. Francis receiving the stigmata, a signed work from Giotto's early years and originally in Pisa, the momumental painted cross, often overlooked because of conservation problems but newly restored, and the noteworthy Crucifixion, key to understand the activity of Giotto and his workshop in Naples around 1330. The latter work had profound iconographic and stylistic influence in France due to the close links between Naple's sovereigns of the time, the Anjou, and their French cousins. Additional works from French and foreign collections - including drawings, manuscripts and panel paintings - will help shed light on Giotto, his workshop and the liturgical role of his altarpieces. Text in French. AUTHOR: Dominque Thiebaut is curator of paintings (French and Italian, 13th to 15th centuries) at the Musee du Louvre, Paris. Amongst her many publications: Mantegna (Paris and Milan: 2008), co-authored with Giovanni Agosti, and Le Christ de pitie attribue a Jean Maloulel, with Dimitri Solomon (Paris: 2012). SELLING POINTS: ?Catalogue of a major and scholarly exhibition at the Louvre, the world's largest museum ?Contributions by leading scholars on Mediaeval painting as Andrea De Marchi (University of Florence) and Donal Cooper (University of Warwick) ?Giotto paintings are held in many important museums outside of Italy including London (The National Gallery), Oxford (Ashmolean), New York (The Met), Cambridge, Mass. (Fogg Art Museum), Boston (I. Stewart Gardner Museum), Berlin, Munich, etc. 170 colour and 15 b/w illustrations