Space in Giotto’s artworks

Abstract

The article analyses the search by an Italian artist Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337) of the means to represent deep three-dimensional space on the plane (in two-dimensional space). The search has led to the discovery of rational graphic techniques which formed a so-called “arithmetization of space” method applicable
in art and science. The article argues that some of Giotto’s frescos are created in a particular way which allows to perceive the space on a painting as a part of the space a viewer stands in. This side of Giotto’s art has not yet been properly reflected in literature.

Keywords:

Giotto’s art, space of a painting, a viewer’s space