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Giotto's O : narrative, figuration, and pictorial ingenuity in the Arena Chapel
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Giotto's O : narrative, figuration, and pictorial ingenuity in the Arena Chapel

Author: Andrew Ladis
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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"A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: Illustrations
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ladis, Andrew, 1949-
Giotto's O.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)609093960
Named Person: Giotto; Giotto, di Bondone.
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Ladis
ISBN: 9780271034072 0271034076
OCLC Number: 193911240
Notes: Includes two folded leaves of col. plates of the Arena Chapel interior, north and south walls.
Description: xii, 211 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Giotto's O --
The highest thing --
That obscure object of desire --
Phantom presences --
The rhetoric of wonder --
Things and time --
Conclusion: full circle.
Other Titles: Giotto's circle
Responsibility: Andrew Ladis.
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Features Giorgio Vasari's famous story of "Giotto's O", in which the artist drew a perfect circle freehand, baffled Pope Benedict IX's foolish messenger, and demonstrated his artistic brilliance to  Read more...

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"Andrew Ladis's inspired and beautifully wrought meditation on Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, a distillation of over thirty years of study, is a book of rare literary distinction, critical Read more...

 
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