Come and enjoy a series of free lectures on the history of art, accessible to all, to help you understand the works of art and the major artistic movements.
"Giotto and the pictorial revolution of the Trecento", by Bertrand Cosnet, Senior Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art, University of Lille.
Born near Florence around 1265, Giotto di Bondone stands out as a major artistic figure of the last centuries of the Middle Ages for the sudden and major upheavals he brought about in the field of painting. His contemporaries, such as Dante and Boccaccio, regarded him as the initiator of a revolution in the figuration of the world and as a genius capable of surpassing Nature itself by reproducing things perfectly. This lecture will retrace the career of this painter, who was at the head of a workshop that was active throughout the Italian peninsula, and will highlight his main contributions to the field of painting, particularly in terms of spatial illusionism and the depiction of human feelings.