| Alkotó | |
|---|---|
| Kultúra | Italian |
| Készítés ideje | ca. 1310–1315 |
| Tárgytípus | fresco |
| Anyag, technika | detached fresco fragment |
| Méret | 27 × 16.5 cm |
| Leltári szám | 30 |
| Gyűjtemény | Old Master Paintings |
| Kiállítva | Ez a műtárgy nincs kiállítva |
The Florentine artist Giotto di Bondone took a radical new approach to painting, which strove for verisimilitude; his innovations determined the direction of art for centuries to come. One of the most significant places where he worked, on a number of separate occasions, was the Church of San Francesco in Assisi. This fresco fragment originates from the Lower Church: it is the only surviving section of the multifigural composition entitled Celestial Glory, which once adorned the main apse.
The female figure looks upward with a sublime expression; behind her can be glimpsed the neck, hair and halo of a female saint or an angel. While its outstanding quality is universally recognised, this work is now attributed by the majority of scholars to a member of Giotto’s workshop, perhaps his pupil Stefano Fiorentino.
This gracefully naturalistic female head is more delicately refined and slenderly proportioned than those typically found in Giotto’s early works. The richly pleated white headscarf has been modelled with painstaking attention to every minuscule crease and fold, fully exploiting the inherent decorative opportunities.
Pigler, Andor, Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, 1-2. Museum der Bildenden Künste, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest. 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1967, p. 270-271.
Szigethi, Ágnes – Nyerges, Éva – Ruzsa, György – Barkóczi, István – Tátrai, Vilmos, Tátrai, Vilmos (ed.), Old Masters’ Gallery; A Summary Catalogue of Italian, French, Spanish and Greek Paintings: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 1, Budapest, 1991, p. 114.
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