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A sparkling celebration of the pre-Renaissance master Centuries ago, a shepherd boy drew pictures of his sheep in the sand and on stones. Today, everyone knows him as Giotto, the pre-Renaissance master whose magnificent frescoes illuminate the Church of St. Francis in Assisi and the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.In A Boy Named Giotto, Paolo Guarnieri tells a story of how young Giotto might have been apprenticed to the great master Cimabue and taught how to paint frescoes. In legendary fashion, Cimabue, as any other artist of the times might have done, realizes that the student has outdone the master and will subsequently find a permanent place of honor in the history of art. Bimba Landmann's stunning paintings, with highlights of glittering gilt, call to mind the work of Giotto but exude a style that is distinctly Landmann's own.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 2-4-Giotto, a boy in long-ago Italy, neglects his sheep and sketches obsessively with charcoal and chalk on stones and rocks. When the famous painter Cimabue visits his town, Giotto sees a painted masterpiece for the first time and learns about pigments and the preparation of panels from the artist. The next day, the young shepherd makes a picture of a sheep on a rock with his new colors, a painting so real that a lost lamb mistakes it for its mother ewe and returns to the flock. Cimabue, amazed at the boy's talent, agrees to take Giotto into his workshop in Florence. Thus, one of the great Renaissance artists starts on his career. This charming legend will be useful as an introduction to the artist, especially if children are shown examples of the famous frescoes in Padua and in Assisi, which place him as the first of the great Renaissance masters. The illustrations in this picture book take their inspiration from those famous panels, but the colors used here are subdued and dark, in tones of russet and gold and charcoal brown, and the style is modern and expressionistic, far less realistic than Giotto's own work. The border of the last pages contains miniature sketches of Giotto's frescoes of the life of St. Francis.-Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
The spare, mellifluous quality of first-time children's book author Guarnieri's prose is matched only by the fluidity of line and stark perspectives in Landmann's paintings, which emulate the work of their subject. The author focuses on the makings of the artist from boyhood and concludes with Giotto's pivotal pilgrimage to Assisi, where his frescoes are still revered today. He characterizes the shepherd boy cum master painter as both gifted and driven from the first. Growing up in pre-Renaissance Italy, young Giotto takes the family's sheep to pasture each morning and spends the day sketching pictures of everything he sees on stones and in the sand. After viewing Cimabue's Madonna with Child being carried in a procession, Giotto becomes determined to confide his burning desire to the painter. Cimabue warmly receives Giotto and teaches him to mix pigments from minerals and plants. When the painter later sees the boy's rendering of a sheep he exclaims, "No painter I know has ever succeeded in making a creature look so alive." Giotto's parents then agree to allow the boy to study with Cimabue in Florence when he is old enough. Landmann's (Journey into the Blue Night) gilded, fresco-like paintings shimmer in earth tones. He authentically depicts the stylized landscapes and the flat perspectives of Giotto's time. For aspiring artists and art buffs alike. Ages 5-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
This fictional account of how the great painter Giotto--about whom little is known--might have come to be apprenticed to his teacher is lavishly illustrated. Using the warm, burnished palette common in Renaissance paintings, Landmann alludes to Chagall, Mondrian, ancient Egyptian art, Russian religious art, and more in framed paintings, panels, and triptychs highlighted with gold. From HORN BOOK Spring 2000, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A picture book aimed at older readers, this fictitious biography of Giotto explains how such an artistically inclined child might have been discovered and mentored. In the Middle Ages there was neither the choice of media nor the sense of permanence associated with art today. Lacking other materials, the boy Giotto probably drew in sand, or on stones with charcoal. His father ignores his talent, wanting his son to help herd the family sheep. He forbids his son to attend a religious ceremony, but from the window the boy spies a wonderful painting carried in the procession. He finds out who created it, and manages to meet the older painter, Cimabue, who gives him colors to work with. After spending a day drawing instead of herding sheep, Giotto hides from his father, whom he expects to be very angry. Instead, his father and Cimabue arrive, and are surprised by his talent. The older artist convinces Giotto's father to let the boy come study as an apprentice, and it isn't long before the apprentice surpasses the master. This moving tale will ring true for any child struggling for recognition, both in the world of the arts, and in the world of adults. Landmann's illustrations make this book especially meaningful: they capture the essence of Giotto's work without copying him, and there's both a Byzantine and a modern look to her birds (they are almost all eyes), and the almond-eyed characters that inhabit this elegant story. (Picture book. 8-12)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Ages 5^-8. This beautiful picture book about the Italian painter Giotto begins and ends on the endpapers, which note that although little is known about the fourteenth-century artist's life, his paintings in Padua and Assisi are well known and beloved even today. In between, a legend is told about an eight-year-old shepherd so obsessed with drawing that he neglects his sheep. When the boy loses a lamb, his father keeps him home from a procession in honor of a painting by the master Cimabue. But the boy follows the procession to the painter's home, where Cimabue teaches him to make pigments. When Giotto's father sees his son's lifelike rendering of a ewe painted in Cimabue's pigments, he rethinks his son's "scribblings." Landmann's artwork is more reminiscent of Cimabue's, which used planes of flat color and linear shapes, than Giotto's, with its rounded figures. But her russet and bronze palette, lit by touches of gold, is attractive; and the pictures are fittingly arranged like altarpieces or frescoes and framed with small illustrations beneath the main image. A special book that will capture children patient enough to wait for the message. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido