Giotto’s Sky: The Fresco Paintings of the First Floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Giotto’s Sky: The Fresco Paintings of the First Floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy - The Imagined Sky |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Darrelyn Gunzburg; University of Bristol and University of Wales Trinity Saint David; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Cultural Studies; History; Art History; Astronomy; Astrology; Religious Studies in Anthropology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | art history; cosmology; medieval period; cultural astrology; Padua; Pietro d’Abano; constellational imagery |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | History of Ideas; Art History |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | Giotto’s frescos in the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, were painted across three registers. The upper register contains celestial astronomical imagery that few scholars have been able fully to understand. Using two sections of this upper register as case studies, I reconstructed the skies over Padua in the medieval period using astronomical and astrological software, together with the knowledge of poetic astronomy and naked eye astronomy. This approach showed that, rather than being simple decorations, these images are instead reflective of the constellations that dictated the seasons and the cycle of the year as seen over Padua c. 1309. Further- more, they reveal a night sky that was populated with a constellational iconography that, I argue, was part of an ensouled cosmology. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Jun-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | Historical Inquiry |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/22666 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.22666 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Imagined Sky |
| 16. | Language | English=en | En |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Italy, 14th century |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |