Giotto and the pre-Renaissance
By: produced by Lionella Torossi for Universal Education and Visual Arts ; directed by Luciano Emmer
Contributors: Basehart, Richard, 1915-; Universal Education and Visual Arts; Kartes Video Communications
Series: Museum without walls; Museum without walls
Publisher: Kartes Video Communications
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Indianapolis, IN
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Gothic Mural painting and decoration; Italian Mural painting and decoration
Other titles: Giotto : pre-Renaissance
Description: Deals with the works of the artist Giotto, contrasting the hieratic mood of his predecessors with his innovations. Shows the major cycles of his frescoes, including those at the Upper and Lower Church of San Francesco, Assisi, the Scrovegni family Arena Chapel in Padua, and St. Croce in Florence.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Narrator, Richard Basehart ; English adaptation, Kenneth Donahue ; music, Ennio Moricone.

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