Spotlight Artist: Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important invention of the second millennium, the seminal event which ushered in the modern period of human history.[3] It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific
Spotlight Artwork: Giotto (1267 - 1337) - Gothic/Proto-Renaissance Art
LamentationArena Chapel (Capella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6’ 3/4” x 6’ 3/4” Synopsis In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years".[5] Giotto's masterwork is
