Banzato, Davide; Francesca Flores d'Arcais; Anna Maria Spiazzi — Guariento

Padua, Guariento e la Padova Carrarese Guariento, 2011. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps, 235pp, numerous color plates. Text is in Italian. Exhibition catalog--The volume is the catalog of the exhibition of Padua (Palazzo del Monte, April 16, 31 July 2011) dedicated to Guariento. Of this Italian painter known especially the angels, even the angelic hierarchies composed of angels, archangels, mayor, seraphim, cherubim, thrones and dominations, who played everywhere, have become part of the iconography of the universal, so widespread as to forget who painted them and what actually represent those wonderful figures. For the first time all major works of the Master of the angels, Guariento, the one who, after Giotto, was the greatest interpreter of the painting of the fourteenth century in Padua, will be collected in the catalog of this major exhibition in Padua. Dozens of tables and precious frescoes final document the absolute magnitude of an artist who has been able to anticipate the elegance of the International Gothic style. Besides the masterpieces of Guariento, the catalog presents works by Giotto, Pietro and Giuliano da Rimini, Vitale da Bologna, Paolo and Lorenzo Veneziano, Just Menabuoi, Altichiero Vivarini, Nicholas Peter, Giambono. VG .