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403 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 5 November 1883.
in translation:
...ny pent-up tears as the figures by Mantegna or Giotto, at the same time we can have a silent hope thr...
in note 9:
... painted; later in the letter he refers to them a second time – when he also adds Giotto’s name.
477 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Tuesday, 30 December 1884.
in translation:
In his own time, people wrote of Giotto, ‘first he put “goodness” into the expression of human ...
in note 9:
Giotto painted Dante’s likeness in his frescoes in the Palazzo del Podestà and in the Santa Croce ...
in note 8:
...i said a remarkable thing about the old master Giotto, creator of Italian art: “The first thing he ...
598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in translation:
...gna, Venetian primitifs. (Botticelli, Cimabue, Giotto, Bellini.) Contrariwise the thing undertaken by...
622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
in translation:
...e were girls who made one think of Cimabue and Giotto: slim, straight, a little sad and mystical. On ...
in note 9:
...ue girls, which made him think of Cimabuë and Giotto. He is a lad with a very broad, but overly inde...
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in translation:
I myself rather like this anecdote about Giotto — there was a competition for the execution of some...
...ting — entrust the Virgin in question — to Giotto. Whether it’s true or not I don’t know, but...
...uble is, do you see, my dear old Bernard, that Giotto, Cimabue, as well as Holbein and Van Eyck, live...
in note 7:
...rious artists had submitted work for approval. Giotto, though, displayed his mastery by drawing a per...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in translation:
...icable and sometimes a heavy burden. But since Giotto, a sickly character, that’s the way things ar...
in note 12:
Van Gogh based his description of Giotto as ‘a sickly character’ on Henry Cochin, ‘Boccace d’...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in translation:
...read an article on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giotto, Botticelli; my God, what an impression that ma...
...h thick impasto, lemon yellow and lemon green. Giotto touched me the most — always suffering and al...
Giotto is extraordinary, anyway, and I feel him more than the poets: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio.
in note 18:
Van Gogh based his remark about the sickly Giotto on Cochin’s article (‘Boccace d’après ses oe...
in note 15:
...ante is also referred to often in the article; Giotto is mentioned twice and Botticelli only once (an...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in translation:
That odd fellow, Giotto, whose biography said that he was always unwell, and always full of ardour an...
in note 14:
See letter 683, n. 18, for the description of Giotto as sickly, but a genius.
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in translation:
...one may readily picture to oneself Botticelli, Giotto, Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio. In the decorati...
in note 12:
...Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio and the painters Giotto and Botticelli, whom he discussed in letter 683...
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in translation:
...hat there are paintings by Delacroix, Courbet, Giotto, Paul Potter, Botticelli, T. Rousseau, very fin...
in note 12:
...2271. In those days it was still attributed to Giotto, now to the ‘School of Giotto’. See cat. Mo...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in translation:
...ow very different this is from Michelangelo or Giotto, although the latter however comes close to it,...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in translation:
...udy them, I ask you why you appear not to know Giotto. Gauguin and I saw a tiny panel of his in Montp...
in note 17:
... The death and assumption of the Virgin (now no longer attributed to Giotto). See letter 726, n. 12.
839 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 13 January 1890.
in translation:
...to travel, how I’d like to copy the works of Giotto, this painter who would be as modern as Delacro...
in note 12:
...ellier; at the time it was still attributed to Giotto. See letter 726, n. 12. It is possible that he ...
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in translation:
... that fellow wept as he started painting, that Giotto, that Angelico painted on their knees, Delacroi...
RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.
in translation:
...nd Da Vinci? I do not know, but I believe that Giotto, less pagan, felt it more, that great sickly fe...
in note 13:
For the source of this statement about Giotto, see letter 683, n. 18.

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