Renaissance

Giotto

Great Artists episode 1 – Giotto

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Giotto Giotto di Bondone, the son of a Tuscan shepherd. Born in 1267, Giotto began his apprenticeship at the age of 12, and with his naturalistic treatment of medieval Christian iconography, was recognised as the first in a line of great painters and architects who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.     Giotto’s contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, […]

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Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch – The Devil with Angel’s Wings

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An artist with an exuberant imagination, a painter of the most extraordinay gardens and terrifying hells, a respected public figures of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and a man of faith – Hieronymus Bosch is certainly the most fascinating and mysterious artist of the Renaissance.      This film sheds light on this forerunner of Surrealism and on his approach. The paintings are

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