"Giotto" by Basil De Selincourt, published by Duckworth Company, London, 1905. First edition, illustrated.

Hard boards, original maroon cloth with gold stamping on front board and spine; [a little shelf wear]; 5.1/2" x 8"; monochrome frontispiece,232 pages including Index + 44 monochrome plates, 4 pages with publisher's ads, the page# 19/20 is a miss-cut: the bottom corner is larger [see photo]; overall very good condition.

Basil De Selincourt (1877-1966) was a British journalist and essayist. Giotto is his first published book.

Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267-1337), known as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic / Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years".

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