THE RISE OF THE COURT ARTIST: CAVALLINI AND GIOTTO IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY NAPLES
2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2008.00625.x
ISSN1467-8365
Autores Tópico(s)Byzantine Studies and History
ResumoThis article explores the ways in which the Roman artist Pietro Cavallini and the Florentine artist Giotto were received in Naples and subsequently influenced Neapolitan art. Using documents and monuments, it analyses their contribution to the artistic and political image of the Neapolitan court. A number of scholars have based their assessment of the oeuvres of Cavallini and Giotto on the writings of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari, circa one hundred and two hundred and fifty years, respectively, after the artists lived. This article considers the stylistic, aesthetic, technological and political reasons for the appointment of Cavallini and Giotto to the Angevin court, and the subsequent spread of their style in Naples. As Martin Warnke has discussed in The Court Artist (first published in German in 1985), the late medieval court gave dignities to an artist that affected his reputation. The evidence of this article indicates that the court of Naples in the fourteenth century recognized each artist's individual identity and influence, thus affirming his image and thereby promoting its own.
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