Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility

ISBN-13: 9781316511046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Henrike Christiane Lange

Opis

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto's Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

Recenzje

'A great reading experience … Lange delivers an ingenious treatment of Giotto's framing faux architecture and meaningful Rahmenbeiwerk. This absorbing book does not see its hero, Giotto, as liberated from ancient Rome, but rather demonstrates that it is exactly Giotto's resistance to the ghost of pagan antiquity which contributes to his greatest achievements. Lange shows how Giotto creates a Christian form of similitude and overcoming, as triumph - typologically, a triumph of humility as a critical form, and therefore as an argument for Giotto's modernity.' Wolfgang Kemp, Professor of History of Art, University of Hamburg

Spis treści

1. A Venetian dream of Rome and Jerusalem; 2. 1300: the moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua; 3. The powers that were Scrovegni, Dalesmanini, Frangipani; 4. Giotto's painted reliefs; 5. Triumph and apotheosis from Augustine to Dante; Epilogue: Relief, triumph, transcendence.