Resumen de Chronotopos con variazioni: corso di buono come narratore innovato. Tre immagini dai mosaici della vita di San Giovanni nel battistero di Firenze
Giotto’s narrative techniques include the identical repetition of scenery in images that appear either consecutively or after an interval of time (e.g. the house of Joachim an Anne in the Arena Chapel). The present contribution addresses a precedent for this in the dome mosaic of the Baptistery in Florence. There the painter and mosaicist Corso di Buono, who was documented in 1284 and 1295 in another context, created three scenes with the public ministry of John Baptist in a landscape, that is identical in its larger structures. In the details, however, the images show marked differences. While the larger structures highlight the scenic continuity, as was later the case in Giotto’s work, the variation in detail serves to emphasize individual actions or situations.
