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- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Venetian Dream of Rome and Jerusalem
- Chapter 2 1300: The Moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua
- Chapter 3 The Powers That Were
- Chapter 4 Giotto’s Painted Reliefs
- Chapter 5 Triumph and Apotheosis, Augustine to Dante
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - 1300: The Moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2023
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Venetian Dream of Rome and Jerusalem
- Chapter 2 1300: The Moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua
- Chapter 3 The Powers That Were
- Chapter 4 Giotto’s Painted Reliefs
- Chapter 5 Triumph and Apotheosis, Augustine to Dante
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Immediately before working for Enrico Scrovegni in Padua, Giotto served Boniface VIII as painter to the papal court in Rome and was in Rome for the Jubilee in 1300 before moving to the Veneto.1 Without any extensive written documents on the chapel’s gestation or preparatory drawings, modern scholarship mostly takes the precise correspondence between illusionistic frescoes and architecture in the chapel as testimony of Giotto’s direct involvement with its design, planning, and construction.
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- Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility , pp. 53 - 85Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023