April 17, 2024
Superb 1863 Original German Chromolithograph GIOTTO IN ASSISI 8 by 10.5
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Superb 1863 Original German Chromolithograph GIOTTO IN ASSISI 8 by 10.5 Original 1863 German Produced Chromolithograph Rendered from the art of M. Von Hess by W. Krafft Heinrich Maria von Hess (1798 – 1863) was a German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement best best known for the frescoes representing scenes from the Old and New Testaments in the Allerheiligencapelle, and the episodes from the life of St Boniface and other German apostles in the basilica of Munich. The artist works are mindful of the traditions of Christian art, earnest and simple in feeling, yet lifelike and powerful in expression. Through him and his pupils the sentiment of religious art was preserved and extended in the Munich school. "GIOTTO IN ASSISI" Captioned in German "Giotto in Acsisi " Giotto di Bondone (1266 – ), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. When Giotto was a shepherd boy, a merry and intelligent child the great Florentine painter Cimabue discovered Giotto drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock. The picture were so lifelike that Cimabue approached asked if he could take the boy as an apprentice. When in Rome with Cimabue, Giotto's skills soon became legendary. After
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