Jotto. Ponomareva T.

Giotto reached the top of Glory. By the end of his life, the King of the Neapolitan Robert granted him the title of courtier, and in 1334 he was appointed chief architect of the Florentine Cathedral. He was not only a great master, but also a happy husband and father. In the essay, his path to the heights of creativity is traced, attention was paid to the search for the ideal of beauty, which he understood as the fullness of a person’s spiritual life. The monumental cycle of frescoes on the plots of the Holy Scripture began to be called the Gospel of Jotto: his biblical characters live, move, interact with each other. This book will be useful to everyone who is interested in painting. It will help teachers and students of creative universities better know the work of the great master who created the Renaissance in the era of the emergence.